After several years of a cable telephone duopoly in home broadband Internet service there may finally be an alternative on the Horizon. Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access better known as WiMax promises to do for communities what WiFi did for homes and businesses. There were previous broadband services using fixed-point wireless. Without the costs associated with building and maintaining a hardwired infrastructure fixed-point wireless should be an economical way to provide Broa...

Way back in the early days of mass marketed Internet service small independent companies provided dial up service. The broadband business has been a duopoly, cable and telephone companies are the only two options for the vast majority of high speed Internet subscribers. Technologies such as fixed wireless and powerline promised to introduce greater competition into the marketplace. Fixed wireless fell by the wayside due to high costs of federal licenses of radio frequencies that were sold ...