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Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) devices today operate in 555 megahertz of spectrum in the 5 GHz band, and are used for short range, high speed wireless connections including Wi-Fi enabled local area networks and fixed outdoor broadband transceivers used by wireless Internet service providers to connect smart phones, tablets and laptops to the broadband network.
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Internet users have been complaining about data caps and the costly penalties for going over said caps for years, while both wireless and fixed broadband providers claimed these caps were an absolute necessity to curb runaway use.
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They all successfully bid to become super-connected cities with ultrafast fixed broadband access and large areas of public wireless connectivity.
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BMI-T, a market-research firm, predicts that there will be around 400, 000 broadband connections both fixed-line and various forms of wireless in South Africa by the end of the year.
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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.
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In India, where fixed-line broadband links are rare, many will get their first taste of speedy surfing over a wireless network.
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