| Forum Home | ||||
| PC World Chat | ||||
| Thread ID: 79202 | 2007-05-11 22:37:00 | Coastal Broadband thumbs nose at Telecom | jcr1 (893) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 549193 | 2007-05-11 22:37:00 | Have a look at this; www.stuff.co.nz So, it can be done. |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 549194 | 2007-05-11 22:45:00 | Of course it can be done, Telecom just doesn't want to do it. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 549195 | 2007-05-11 23:31:00 | Good on them! :) | jermsie (6820) | ||
| 549196 | 2007-05-12 20:29:00 | This weekend the first two paying customers will be hooked up - Graeme Corrigan's Pihama Garage and Diane Campbell, on whose property the Pihama transmitter is located. "It's a self-contained community Internet service and has cost about $10,000 in venture capital to set up," Steve Pivac says. Satellite broadband is available, at a price. Coastal Broadband's installation cost at $450 is about the same as satellite but the monthly fee of $65 is much cheaper, Jack Pivac says. Uhuh. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 549197 | 2007-05-13 04:40:00 | I hope they got licences for their repeaters. The fines might eat their "venture capital" if they didn't. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 549198 | 2007-05-13 05:12:00 | What licenses? | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 549199 | 2007-05-13 05:34:00 | Use of radio spectrum requires a licence to operate. Some licenses are exceptionally expensive (TV channels, Cellular communications etc). Many in the commonly used bands have to be tendered for. Some are "free to use" within limits (very low power etc) such as PRS UHF CB etc, some are only available to a select group that are qualified to use them (Amateur Radio). An example of a free-to-use one is WiFi, but the power linits are very low. Use of a non-allocated frequency would see the operator shut down quite quickly, but one would imaging these guys are using something they are entitled to use or have paid for (for use in a defined area). |
godfather (25) | ||
| 549200 | 2007-08-18 14:08:00 | Hey everyone, thankyou for your support . Hope you dont mind me dragging up an old thread . We are using a mixture of 2 . 4 and 5 . 8ghz, both which are open to do what you wish with, no licences required . 2 . 4 Ghz is the same as used by your typical home wifi equipment, but using the right technology this can be extended to many km's . This also allows users with laptops etc to access our network . Most of our backbone links are using 5 . 8ghz, this means more stability for us as this channel is less crowded, and we are not blasting the countryside with a frequency that would interfere with home networks etc . Our main backhaul links goes 10km from headland to headland across the water . Using 5 . 8ghz here, going along the coast means we avoid all the hills and trees :cool: Remember that article is written by a reporter so not all facts are written the way we said it . ;) (Some of it may sound a bit arrogant) . We have our first 5 clients connected and many more are chomping at the bit to get on, and we will connect them as soon as we iron out a few teething issues ;) Thanks again, Jack |
Delphinus (12256) | ||
| 549201 | 2007-08-18 20:56:00 | Remember that article is written by a reporter so not all facts are written the way we said it. ;) (Some of it may sound a bit arrogant). No, it sounds expensive. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 549202 | 2007-08-18 21:47:00 | No, it sounds expensive.For those of us who can access wired/wireless broadband it is. But as said in the report, although the initial outlay is expensive, the monthly rates are cheaper than other satellite services (if I read things correctly) | Myth (110) | ||
| 1 2 | |||||