Wireless internet not soon replace ADSL

The market of wireless Internet access is slowly but surely evolving. The interest in wireless communications exhibit a variety of market participants. To date, one of the most popular wireless technologies is Wi-Fi technology. In Russia, however this service is developing rather slowly. At the end of last year in Russia, there were only 650 access points, Wi-Fi. For comparison, in North America ( U.S. and Canada) wireless internet (standard WI-FI) used one-third North American. However, recently more frequently sounds ambitious proposals for the development of Wi-Fi network in Russia. For example, recently the operator ... The company intends to deploy five thousand. hot-spots. Equipped with Wi-Fi on the first phase is planned to cafes, restaurants, hotels and other public places located within the Garden Ring. Investment in the project will be about six million dollars.
Experts point out that at present the wireless Internet projects are not quickly pay off. This applies to the Wi-Fi, and a rapidly evolving technology Wi-Max.
Wi-Max, which is called the main competitor to Wi-Fi, - it is a wireless standard that provides high-speed connection (data transfer rate it is almost ten times greater than that of Wi-Fi). In addition, the network standard 802. 16 easier to expand and increase the area of coverage, the structure they are very similar to the traditional mobile network: here are also present base stations, which operate within a radius of 50 kilometers. ' The prospect of a Wi-Max is much greater than that of Wi-Fi, especially in Russia, with its open spaces and distances ', - said the program ...
Meanwhile, according to experts, Wi-Fi is one of the fastest growing access technology, advanced by the number of users of third generation mobile communications. The turnover of the global market Wi-Fi in 2005. amounted to about 10 billion dollars. However, as noted in. Alekseev, in the near future the majority of users in Russia will still use the traditional channels, Internet access, as ADSL - more reliable than WI-FI, which is dependent on weather and other disturbances in the ether.
However, in the ordinary inhabitants of the operators of wireless access technologies in the Internet are not oriented. Their clients - people with laptops in cafes, restaurants, airports, hotels. To expand its customer base, some operators will provide Wi-Fi, even in the Moscow metro. There's this standard is intended primarily for owners of handheld computers and smartphones, that is, those who have a practice of reading in the subway.
Minus Wi-Fi technology experts have called it a weak protection against hacker effects. 'Wi-Max is protected better than Wi-Fi', - says head of analytical department of IFC ' Metropol ' Thomas Atsehed. Thus far the technology Wi-Max is only 1% of the market access to the Internet in Russia. But probably, this figure will grow. So the company ' Internafta ' and an American corporation GlobeTel Communications announced the construction of wireless network based on Wi-Max technology in 30 Russian cities. In. Alexeyev said that the standard Wi-Max is capable of being profitable, but not on the whole territory of Russia, and on some of its territories, where conventional analog service operators are not available.
However, the main problem of the introduction of standard Wi-Max is the lack of available frequencies. 3,2-3,8 GHz band, which focuses the coming standard for wireless equipment Wi-Max 802. 16a, available in Russia only in highly abbreviated form. In addition, the resource is almost exhausted the range previously established radio-relay systems and other narrowband. In this connection, the transition to Wi-Max equipment of foreign and domestic production license will be very difficult.
Nevertheless, most experts believe that Wi-Max will fight for a place under the sun is not the standard Wi-Fi, but with mobile phones of the third and even fourth -generation (3G, 4G). With the help of Wi-Max service providers can combine IP-telephony, data transmission and Internet access, creating a broadband connection for data and voice communications. Furthermore experts do not exclude that the operators will soon abandon the construction of Wi-Fi- network, and will go directly to the networks of Wi-Max. Like has already happened when Russia were going to build the ISDN- network, but instead immediately stepped to the ADSL.
Source:. RBC.