Horizon partners with Navini to spread WiMAX across Northeast US

Following up on Sprint's announcement to spread the WiMAX love to Chicago and Washington, D.C., Horizon is looking to broaden that area of coverage out just a bit by partnering with Navini Networks. This news comes after the FCC approved Horizon's purchase of the WCS A Block spectrum previously owned by the diminishing Verizon, and now the firm is looking to deploy the wireless goods in "Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Richmond, and Cincinnati" for starters. Horizon has selected Navini's 802.16e equipment to get things up and running, and states that its objective it to "provide wireless last mile access to residential, business, and emergency restoration markets," but folks in rural areas will seemingly get shunned for now. Horizon isn't wasting any time getting this thing started, either, as it plans to start building the network in Q1 of this year, with hopes for "ongoing expansion and additional network deployments in the latter part of 2007."

[Via TheWirelessReport]

[Angry Canadian @ Jan 20th 2007 2:46PM]

ughh. could you get this stuff to rural canada? the internet is pathetic out here. im on 56k for gods sake

[liamog @ Jul 7th 2009 12:36PM]

we had this service in Dublin for a while now using Navini equipment lets just say it was more wireless dial-up than wireless broadband hopefully there equipment is a bit more reliable these days