Here’s a semi-technical article from Telephony Online about FairPoint’s plans foir  “fixed WiMAX deployment using unlicensed bands to extend DSL reach” for cheaper last-mile access in very rural areas.

It’s an interesting counterpart to the wireless LINC project that I wrote about recently in my Telegraph column - which uses a variety of licensed and unlicensed spectrum to get broadband siognals from a fiber link in Vermont across the Connecticut River to Grafton County.

Forget mobile wireless; up there, point-to-point on poles is useful.

Tags: WiMax