GigaOM

[...] In Rural Texas Gigaom has an article this morning about a small company rolling out high speed wireless data service into rural areas of Texas. It certainly sounds like an impressive service. If I were in a covered service area I’d be [...]

[...] Things are better in Mayberry, really! AT&T’s fastest current DSL offering in the Dallas / Fort Worth area is 6MBPS down. My own experience on the Fort Worth side is just short of 5MBPS, not the advertised 6. I can now move to the tiny burg of Poth and get 7.2 MBPS without having to pay for a phone line to get it. Stelera Wireless, an Oklahoma City-based rural broadband service provider has launched its high-speed HSPA service in two markets — Floresville & Poth, Texas — utilizing the Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum band it had acquired in last year’s AWS spectrum auction. The AWS utilizes the 2.1 GHz and 1.7 GHz bands. Stelera has beaten many of the larger players such as T-Mobile to the punch by rolling out its AWS-based wireless broadband network. (from GigaOm) [...]

[...] Rural Texas Gets Superfast Wireless Broadband - GigaOM Stelera Wireless, an Oklahoma City-based rural broadband service provider has launched its high-speed HSPA service in two markets — Floresville & Poth, Texas. “Rural” has been a statistically significant gap in Internet use — this could close it. (tags: rural research twitterthis) [...]

[...] Access (I-HSPA) technology from Nokia Siemens Networks. Stelera Wireless, a small U.S. operator launched data services in rural Texas using this technology as [...]

Do we dare hope that some form of innovation returns to the broadband market? My options for broadband here in Houston haven’t changed significantly on over ten years!

The link to the company is missing the “m” in .com

Here Time Warner increased the prices by $10, but the speed is the same for the last three years. There is hardly any innovation, they are content with profits made.

Texas.. seriously? They couldn’t think of any more technologically advanced places to test that out?

I don’t think it’s a test. And rural markets are actually ripe for wireless as a substitute for wireless (aka bypass). Even if they are designed for mobility, many will be used as fixed wireless given the dearth of rural broadband. It’s a serious need. And with little competition, its the perfect place to launch.

blazing speeds at only 8 megs is nothing to boast about, especially in Texas. With new ODFM gear now reaching 350 to 400 megabit, how does a licensed spectrum with an 8 meg cap compete? Plus licensing fees plus expensive gear. In Texas we see many projects with funding from multiple areas, supporting larger network with less speeds? How is Dallas is anyway slower than Mayberry ?

Some thing is going to be even better and bigger

With opening as a publicly traded company, the ability to broadcast the Internet connection signal via repeater towers from one central NOC (Network Operations Center), broadcast to distances of 30-miles without degradation of the signal, transmit through buildings, forests, and up to 20 feet underground, maintain a T-1 connection both UP and DOWN without degradation from the amount of simultaneous users connecting, and having managed to secure the signal with better than 256-bit SSL encryption where no firewall hardware is required, we believe this WiFi Corp. will quickly become one of the fastest growing Corporations in the history of the Internet, and quite literally, will be able to make the statement;