WiWhat? WiMax. Sounds great doesn’t it? It’s Wi … but to the Max. Can’t get better than that, not since Mega dropped from most people’s vocab.
What WiMAx actually gives is the ability to transfer large globs of data, wirelessly. Like WiFi … but Max-ed. It’s called IEEE 802.16 to those who like that sort of thing.
Wightcable — they of the old cable TV fame — bid for, and won the license for the Island
Looking at the recent planning applications, it’s clear that Wightcable are being very serious about this.
This isn’t an application that been knocked together the morning before it was sent it. They’ve clearly commissioned loads of research on this, including where the best place to locate the aerial and equipment to serve Ventnor the best. Knights Court was nominated.
Once up and running, they’ll be able to provide telephone, Internet and TV – all wirelessly. No more being limited by who they can run a physical cable to.
You’ll need special equipment to connect to it, but the increase in potential customers will be considerable. Each transmitter has a 1-2Km range.
A while back the Town council OK’d the planning permission for it – not clear if they knew it was WiMax or thought it was another mobile phone aerial. It’s just got to go through final stages of planning and they’ll be able to get started.
With a company called WightCable getting into delivering wirelessly – you’d assume they’ll be changing their name soon, to something more illustrative – something like WightMax?
