Next up, an ambitious effort to inaugurate a low-cost fixed wireless phone service in Mexico early next year (the technology is wireless, but the range of use will be about 2 kilometers).

FORBES: The Salinas touch

Next up, an ambitious effort to inaugurate a low-cost fixed wireless phone service in Mexico early next year (the technology is wireless, but the range of use will be about 1 mile).

FORBES: The Salinas Touch

In July last year Scottish Power shut down its wireless service and asked its 6000 customers to consider a traditional fixed line service.

BBC: sky shot

And several service providers, using a number of different technologies, have sprung up offering wireless alternatives to Telkom's costly fixed-line broadband service, which is expensive by European standards, let alone African ones.

ECONOMIST: Telecoms in South Africa

And it has a respectable business plan: to provide telecom services to those parts of the world where wireless or fixed-line service doesn't really exist--Equatorial Africa and the upper reaches of the Amazon--or where it's inadequate, as in many areas of Africa, India and Latin America.

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