[MLB-WIRELESS] Newbie Hello / wireless article / Mt. Dandenong?

[Will Lotto]

Barry,
I stand corrected :) I'm not at all suprised to learn they shutdown
due to low numbers; I remember it was damn expensive when I was
looking at getting it for broardband out here. I thought it must've
been due to the unreliability of the MMDS serivce after hearing all my
mates (who were using it) complain... and looking at the ammount they downloaded :)

However, they did have a MMDS system running in a couple of test
towns; Bendigo was one of them, where I live, and many of the
customers WERE complaiining about the reliability of the link.

http://www.vsat.com.au/000331_1.html has some details from when
they first put it in.

It may have been AAPT who run the MMDS, but it was definatly retailed
as chello.

Will.

> Hey Will,
> As I understand it, the only reason Chello closed down is because it did 
> not have anywhere near enough subscribers to support the service, only 
> in the low 10,000 figure nationally. They were strictly a broadband 
> service that was delivered via Austar's satellite network, with a 
> satellite downlink and a modem uplink. Subscribers had to pay for 
> dial-up Internet access as well as the satellite backchannel, which 
> contributed significantly to the cost. As far as I'm aware, they never 
> had MMDS (microwave multipoint distribution service).
> Now, if you're talking about how AAPT has set up its MMDS service in 
> regional centres, there's something to look at.
> - Barry

> Will Lotto wrote:

>> Chello internet provider had a wireless infrastructure in some towns.
>> Using a modem uplink, customers got their downlink from a terrestrial
>> radio antenna sitting on their roof. It operated well above 2.4ghz,
>> but their antennas are almost identical.
>> 
>> They are now closing down because of two simple, yet detrimental
>> problems.
>> 
>> A. Line of sight. MANY customers found their service to be unreliable
>> because it only took one tree between the customer's house and the
>> main tower for LOS to be lost, thus signal to be lost.
>> 
>> and
>> 
>> B. Solving the last mile problem presents you with the great 'telstra
>> bigpond' problem. ... You offer customers a service where they can
>> download gigabytes of data each day, and guess what sort of customers
>> you attract? :) ... Chello, like telstra, found backbone bandwidth to
>> be expensive.
>> 
>> Will Lotto.




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