Fixed Wireless Goes Hollywood
This week, the fixed wireless Internet provider TowerStream announced plans to expand into the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The company is working to establish points of presence in and around downtown Los Angeles to offer service in a ten-mile radius, which it says will be available starting in early 2005.
Source: Wi-Fi PlanetTowerStream, which was founded four years ago, currently provides wireless access in Boston, Providence, New York, and Chicago. Jeff Thompson, TowerStream's President and COO, says the company's aim is to establish a strong presence in the top ten cities in the United States as efficiently as possible. "We're going into each one of these markets, and we're taking all the beachfront properties for our base stations so we can have the best wireless -- and soon to be WiMax -- network that's going to exist," Thompson says. In Los Angeles, those beachfront properties that TowerStream is targeting include the city's few taller buildings.
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