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Article: Competition in Wireless Technology Industry Challenging to Smaller Businesses.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- May 17, 2002
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By Dan Zehr, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Little Rock Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 17--No one doubted that fixed-wireless technology could work, but no one could make money off it -- not yet anyway.
Fixed-wireless providers initially used "wireless cable" technology to send video signals, often to apartment complexes, hotels and the like. A transmitter placed atop a high building or mountain could send about 30 "cable" channels to antennas mounted below.
But the entrenched competition from traditional cable and direct broadcast satellite operators has pushed "wireless cable" to the edge of the competitive picture.
"It ...