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Inauguran red WiMax para Santiago y quince ciudades del país
María Pastora Sandoval, El Mercurio Online
SANTIAGO.- Esta mañana se dio inicio a las operaciones de la red WiMax de Telmex, que cubre a Santiago y quince ciudades del país, y que permite entregar servicios de conectividad inalámbricos de Internet y telefonía.
La inauguración, realizada en la plaza Gabriela Mistral de la comuna de Cerrillos, contó con la presencia del subsecretario de Telecomunicaciones, Pablo Bello.
El representante del Gobierno enfatizó que el significado de este tipo de lanzamientos es que “hay más competencia en lo que respecta a Internet y telefonía, lo que se traduce a mejores servicios y menores precios para todos los chilenos”.
Paul Harris in Latin Trade, September 2006...
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Chile races to be the first wireless nation in the world, upsetting traditional telecom businesses.
Cities around the world are toying with installing free, wireless Internet for their citizens. Argentine wireless telecommunications company Ertach launched service in Buenos Aires province in March as part of a US$25 million investment. Korea is taking similar steps. In major U.S. cities, the debate continues over how best to close the digital divide by connecting smaller wireless areas into growing “clouds” of free Web signals, which could soon deliver cheap phone calls, television signals and, of course, the Internet itself.
Chile, however, is thinking big: free, wireless, high speed Internet from north to south, covering all 748,800 square kilometers of the country. It would be the first in the world to go nationwide with a long-range Internet technology known as Wimax, a major initiative and a threat, experts say, to any telecom company that misses the boat. “If Wimax replaces the fixed line then the old-style telco is basically bankrupt,” says Ronald Fischer, director of the center of economic application at the Universidad de Chile.
Inauguran red WiMax para Santiago y quince ciudades del país
María Pastora Sandoval, El Mercurio Online
SANTIAGO.- Esta mañana se dio inicio a las operaciones de la red WiMax de Telmex, que cubre a Santiago y quince ciudades del país, y que permite entregar servicios de conectividad inalámbricos de Internet y telefonía.
La inauguración, realizada en la plaza Gabriela Mistral de la comuna de Cerrillos, contó con la presencia del subsecretario de Telecomunicaciones, Pablo Bello.
El representante del Gobierno enfatizó que el significado de este tipo de lanzamientos es que “hay más competencia en lo que respecta a Internet y telefonía, lo que se traduce a mejores servicios y menores precios para todos los chilenos”.
Paul Harris in Latin Trade, September 2006...
No Strings Attached
Chile races to be the first wireless nation in the world, upsetting traditional telecom businesses.
Cities around the world are toying with installing free, wireless Internet for their citizens. Argentine wireless telecommunications company Ertach launched service in Buenos Aires province in March as part of a US$25 million investment. Korea is taking similar steps. In major U.S. cities, the debate continues over how best to close the digital divide by connecting smaller wireless areas into growing “clouds” of free Web signals, which could soon deliver cheap phone calls, television signals and, of course, the Internet itself.
Chile, however, is thinking big: free, wireless, high speed Internet from north to south, covering all 748,800 square kilometers of the country. It would be the first in the world to go nationwide with a long-range Internet technology known as Wimax, a major initiative and a threat, experts say, to any telecom company that misses the boat. “If Wimax replaces the fixed line then the old-style telco is basically bankrupt,” says Ronald Fischer, director of the center of economic application at the Universidad de Chile.
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