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WISPers taking over the Telecom market I have decided to take a combination of two topics, which includes development of wireless networking services and an analysis
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I have decided to take a combination of two topics, which includes development of wireless networking services and an analysis of service providers' market.
WISP stands for Wireless Internet Service Provider or an internet service provider that relies on wireless network technologies for providing of it's services. WISPs unlike previous ISPs in the past don't rely on the regional telco's branch physical medium for providing of it's services to the end users or it's privately used back-haul. With their own infrastructure in place, local ISPs are totally independent in forming of it's prices and services, thus making their role within the Internet services market very different from the times when ISPs had to negotiate their offering with the incumbents.
There are two main areas in which external infrastructure had to be used, the ISP's own back haul and connection to the end user. Connections between cities or wider regions were established using leased lines from the regional operator. The prices offered for these kind of services by the incumbents made it hard to offer any decent prized services to remote, country side areas by emerging ISPs. Existing equipment was too expensive to deploy and in many countries laws were protecting a monopolist position of the national PTT. These conditions made this part of the market reserved strictly for the regional telco. Development of wireless equipment for long range point-to-point connections made it possible for commercial providers to set up their own physical network very quickly and with far less deployment and maintenance costs than renting telecoms network. The other area, or connections to end users, can be described with a similar story. Incumbents were owning all network infrastructure in urban areas and any competition that wanted to have own network would need to build it. This task in urban areas is nearly impossible to accomplish without investing huge amounts that would not pay back in near...
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