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Comments on: Wi-Manx launches WiMAX...nearly

Pants 

Posted Wednesday 6th June 2007 15:21 GMT

Nope, also includes the suburbs and nearby towns of Douglas;

http://www.wimanx.com/Wireless/Default.asp?P=Coverage

Only Douglas? 

Posted Wednesday 6th June 2007 16:39 GMT

It's a bit rubbish if only one bloke can get a signal.

Community alternative 

Posted Wednesday 6th June 2007 19:00 GMT

Not breaking Manxnet broadband T&C's AFAIK.

http://www.fon.com

Isle of Man not the first in Europe 

Posted Thursday 7th June 2007 08:03 GMT

Hi,

It seems that The Register has actually removed some of the countries from Europe as Estonia had commercial WiMAX network already last year. The proof I have right away is the map of the coverage from Norby Telecom here (sorry - in estonian language):

http://www.norby.ee/wimax/kaart3.html

The areas in yellow show the coverage on this map

The news that linked to this map was dated 11.10.2006 and I am sure there were even eariler installations.

MAN not the first in Europe (cont.) 

Posted Thursday 7th June 2007 08:08 GMT

Found an english newsflash from Levira, that proves my point made in last comment:

http://www.levira.ee/fl259eng.html

Europe - the release says UK 

Posted Thursday 7th June 2007 11:53 GMT

They dont claim to have the first in Europe, the website says UK