Testing of Nextel's wireless broadband network shows that it is up to three times faster than CDMA2000 1x EV-DO networks and equal to wireline-based broadband offerings.
Nextel Communications Inc.’s decision earlier this week to expand its wireless broadband network trial in the Raleigh, N.C., market may have proven well founded as network testing conducted by RBCCapital Markets indicated Flarion Technologies’ Flash-OFDM based technology is providing data speeds nearly three times faster than CDMA2000 1x EV-DO networks and equal to wireline-based broadbandofferings.
RBC noted its testing produced average network speeds of around 950 kilobits per second and speeds in excess of 1 megabit per second 40 percent of the time at five locations in the network’s trial markets. The speeds were triple the 329 kbps average throughput similar testing produced using Verizon Wireless’ EV-DO network, approximately nine times faster than the 111 kbps produced using AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s EDGE network and the 101 kbps using Sprint PCS’ 1x-based network.
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