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Voice over wireless: who cares what the wireless technology is?

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Dean Bubley
07-07-2004
05:21 AM ET (US)
Have to agree with you, Guy. I can see a small niche for this, but foresee some major practical issues:

- Many businesses are tenants in shared/leased buildings and don't have the right to bolt things to the roof or walls or run cabling through public areas
- Most building owners will probably want fibre into the site anyway
- Huge manageability / security issues where the devices running over the wireless connection are inside the firewall (big issue for hosted business VoIP generally)
- Unclear whether this technology is line-of-sight only or not
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Guy KewneyPerson was signed in when posted
07-02-2004
03:57 PM ET (US)
Right of reply. It's something I feel ambivalent about, because it means I'll be publishing things I may feel very strongly aren't right. Nonetheless, when Robert Condon complained about our earlier piece, I offered him a platform to explain what he's trying to do with Libera - a network of symmetrical wireless Internet links.

The earlier news story which so annoyed our "serial entrepreneur" was full of errors (he complained). Frankly, I think there's more to his company than his short feature article indicates; I've had people write in strongly supportive of his technology, as well as those who agreed with my cynical first take!

But the thing I still don't see, in this, is where we were wrong. I can see that we weren't supportive! But Condon's original letter is worth posting here, and I'll do so (on his behalf) shortly. Let us know what you think!
Edited 07-02-2004 03:58 PM
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Guy KewneyPerson was signed in when posted
06-13-2004
05:31 PM ET (US)
Well, the founders of Libera have promised a full explanation of what they're about. Apparently, my report was full of errors, though they haven't said what yet!

A full report is on its way, they say.
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Andy Arthur
06-08-2004
12:09 PM ET (US)
Sounds like an expensive way of bypassing the BT local loop and one which will probably have limited life if Wimax fulfills its promises.
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Guy KewneyPerson was signed in when posted
06-08-2004
09:27 AM ET (US)
I don't get it. You live in Docklands, one of the best-provided areas for giganet metro anywhere in the UK, maybe the world. Why would you go for a proprietary wireless solution, which won't be available for at least another year from a startup which isn't prepared to talk turkey on price, yet?
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