Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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In densely populated areas 31 miles just won't work. For it to work the service will have to be based on the number of users in a given area. Of course the greater the number of transmitters the greater cost, and then there's the matter of the decoder thingy everyone will have to buy. The guys that build the towers and install the transmitters/receivers aren't going to be doing this so that anyone with a WiFi connection can tap into their service.

There are trade-offs, and WiFi isn't developed enough yet to say how well it will work on a large scale. Personally, I look forward to anything that increases competition, but bandwidth is going to be at a premium just for the things already envisioned for the cell phone/WiFi world of the near future.

Just think about how often you can't use your cell phone now because the channels are busy. Then think about a very data enriched, internet accessed world of mobile users, let alone hordes of fixed users.