BWE Announces the Top 10 Wireless Internet Service Providers for 2006

BWE Announces the Top 10
Wireless Internet Service Providers for 2006

Gilbert, Ariz. - 4/28/06 - BWE announced the winners of its annual Top 10 Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) survey. The research survey ranks wireless ISPs based on the number of residential and business customers that receive high-speed wireless Internet access via fixed antennas mounted at the customer’s premises.

This year’s winners of the Top 10 WISP awards were either using MMDS or outdoor Wi-Fi coverage based on 802.11 technologies provided by vendors such as Strix Systems, Sky Pilot Networks and Motorola’s Canopy product lines.

Broadband wireless service is delivered using protected wireless spectrum in the 2.5GHz MMDS frequencies or using public spectrum located in the 900 MHz, 2.4GHz or the 5GHz frequencies.

None of the Wireless ISPs were using WiMAX technology, but that is expected to change in the next 12-18 months as WiMAX equipment becomes available in the marketplace and prices begin dropping due to volume shipments.

"WiMAX certified equipment is already available at 3.5GHz, the most allocated frequency band for WiMAX outside the US," stated Maravedis Senior Analyst, Adlane Fellah. "WiMAX certified equipment in the 2.3 and 2.5GHz should be available on a commercial basis in the beginning of 2007. Until then all BWA deployments in the US will remain based on proprietary systems."

The winners of the Top 10 Wireless ISP Awards for 2006 are as follows, ranked in order:

Profiles of each wireless service provider, the number of customers they serve, coverage maps and media relations contacts for each company are provided at http://www.bbwexchange.com/wireless_isp/ .

“We are proud to acknowledge the leaders of broadband wireless industry and we want to give them the credit they deserve in a public forum,” said Robert Hoskins, Broadband Wireless Exchange Magazine’s Editor in Chief. “The wireless industry has changed a great deal since we began handing out these awards in 2001. In those days no one had every heard of a wireless ISP, but nowadays it is very hard to find someone that has not heard of a Wi-Fi hotspot, a municipal mesh network or the advantages of WiMAX wireless technology.”

Hoskins continued, “We predict that in the next 2-5 years, through the combination of Wi-Fi and WiMAX broadband wireless technologies, that high-speed Internet access through a wide variety of devices such as personal digital assistants, Wi-Fi cell phones and/or laptop computers will be as common as cell phones are today, but with a much better set of features and benefits.”

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