{"id":3129,"date":"2008-03-11T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-03-11T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T09:02:00","slug":"is-s-winet-service-a-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/3129-is-s-winet-service-a-winner.html","title":{"rendered":"IS\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s WiNet service a winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.is.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Solutions<\/a> (IS) is increasingly focused on self providing last mile access to customers and is already providing businesses with wireless access &ndash; ranging between 2 Mbps and 1 Gbps.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ian Isenberg, head of telco services at IS, the long waiting periods for connections from Telkom and a general lack of last mile access means that IS has embarked on filling this void themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The company is using their Winet service, operating in the 5.4 GHz band, to supply point-to-point and point-to-multipoint links to corporate customers. This, Isenberg says, is basically a &lsquo;diginet line through the air&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Winet provides speeds between 2 Mbps and 1 Gbps with point-to-point links and 2Mbps to10Mbps connections with point-to-multipoint connections.<\/p>\n<p>Isenberg points out that IS currently has around 80 fully operational high sites and can provide these access services in most major metropolitan areas.<\/p>\n<p>IS is also trialing WiMax, and is only waiting for the appropriate licenses and spectrum from ICASA to launch commercial services to clients. <\/p>\n<p>They have further partnered with Transtel and Neotel to provide customers with Metro-Ethernet services. Typical services include 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps and 1 Gbps connections. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Self provisioning legal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Questions have previously been raised by companies like iBurst about the legality of VANS using unlicensed spectrum to self provide access services to clients.<\/p>\n<p>Here IS is in no doubt that it is operating within the law, saying that as long as a company is in possession of a VANS license, employing unlicensed spectrum and abiding by the rules governing the use of unlicensed spectrum it can definitely built its own network and provide services over it.<\/p>\n<p>According to Siyabonga Madyibi, head of regulatory affairs at IS, current VANS license holders should maintain the right to self provide when their VANS licenses are converted into ECS licenses.<\/p>\n<p>Madyibi is confident that IS will be issued an ECNS license which will make the company eligible to be awarded WiMax spectrum &ndash; one of the most treasured commodities in the telecoms market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=109348\">Discussions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Solutions\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is using its Winet service to provide customers with connections ranging from 10 Mbps to 1 Gbps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}