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February 27, 2008

The U.S. Army is Testing Mobile WiMAX

This draft article is from a small now-retired blog called Broadband Wireless Internet Access (BWIA) / WiMAX Government / Military. (I'm not big on brevity for titles.) This article was written on 2021-03-16, but inserted into this blog for 2008-02-27 (the date the draft was last updated). The link is kept as original to allow searching the Internet Archive should you want to see the link as I did when I wrote this.

The U.S. Army is testing Mobile WiMAX. They used three Samsung base stations and mounted them into Humvees, connected to a satellite link as the backhaul. It is believed to be the first time a satellite link was used with WiMAX. Military forces can set up a satellite dish and pop up a WiMAX antenna next to it to form “a bubble of WiMAX” around a particular area or a convoy, according to testers.

 

Thanks for reading!

Steve Stroh
Bellingham, Washington, USA

Posted by on February 27, 2008 at 11:00 in Content from BWIA Gov/Mil |

  • About Steve Stroh

    In 1996, I was fascinated to discover that providing Internet Access via license-exempt wireless technologies was not only possible, but being done routinely by a small band of pioneering Internet Service Providers.

    By mid-1997, I was writing professionally about Broadband Wireless Internet Access (BWIA) as a monthly columnist in Boardwatch Magazine.

    In 2000, I began writing about BWIA full time in my own blogs, for numerous other publications, and my own subscription newsletter.

    From 2008 - 2015, I took a hiatus from writing about BWIA, but my interest in BWIA did not wane. From 2016 - 2020 I worked to resume writing full time.

    More on my bio page.

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