Citizen Economists » wireless http://www.citizeneconomists.com/blogs Citizen Economists is an online economics magazine written by citizen journalists. These ordinary citizens provide reports and commentary on the current events affecting the economics of the fields they work in. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:10:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Improving Wireless Bandwidth http://www.citizeneconomists.com/blogs/2009/08/11/improving-wireless-bandwidth/ http://www.citizeneconomists.com/blogs/2009/08/11/improving-wireless-bandwidth/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:42:34 +0000 Ajay Shah http://www.citizeneconomists.com/blogs/?p=1672 Peter Wayner has a story about a WiMax rollout in Baltimore in the US. They seem to be getting 6 Mb/s download and 1 Mb/s upload. This is termed a `4G’ network (which might just be marketing speak).

In India, Thomas K. Thomas has an article on price cuts by Airtel. My sense is . . . → Read More: Improving Wireless Bandwidth]]> Peter Wayner has a story about a WiMax rollout in Baltimore in the US. They seem to be getting 6 Mb/s download and 1 Mb/s upload. This is termed a `4G’ network (which might just be marketing speak).

In India, Thomas K. Thomas has an article on price cuts by Airtel. My sense is that we’re in for a big crash in prices of bandwidth through a combination of improvements in prices of wired services and the rollout of 3G which is now a credible alternative to land lines.

The exciting new development on mobile bandwidth is the CDMA EVDO devices being sold by Reliance and Tata Indicom. Last night I did a bulky upload and it worked at 350 kb/s without interruptions. Naman Pugalia and Alok Parekh are measuring the performance of Reliance and Tata Indicom at locations all over India. The picture so far is that EVDO is a lot better than dialup (or CDMA 1.x) but it ain’t really fast.

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