ClearAccess Communications launches fixed broadband wireless Internet access in Southwest Florida.Business Editors BRADENTON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2000 ClearAccess Communications Inc., a high-speed fixed broadband wireless See wireless broadband. Internet access and solutions provider, launches service today throughout Southwest Florida. Aimed at businesses within emerging markets, ClearAccess' telecommunications services offer super-fast, reliable and secure wireless Internet access and data transmission capabilities from Pasco County to Naples, and east to Polk County. ClearAccess plans to roll out services to markets around the state and nation by next year. "We'll start with Southwest Florida, then launch service in the East Central area of the state, and expand to the North and Northwest," ClearAccess President & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Bill Ramalho said. "From there, we'll aggressively roll out service in emerging markets around the country." Besides offering high-speed wireless Internet access to an increasingly "unwired" business world, ClearAccess also helps untangle the mysteries of doing business on the Web by building, hosting and protecting Internet sites. Moreover, the company will soon add voice services to its menu of communications services by year end. "ClearAccess is a new-generation communications company," explained ClearAccess' Ramalho. What's more, ClearAccess will deliver its services over its own, high-speed wireless network, which will be able to deliver data transfer speeds of 10 megabits per second (unit) megabits per second - (Mbps, Mb/s) Millions of bits per second. A unit of data rate. 1 Mb/s = 1,000,000 bits per second (not 1,048,576). E.g. Ethernet can carry 10 Mbps. . That's roughly 180 times the speed of a 56k telephone modem. Founded in 1999, ClearAccess is a high-speed broadband wireless telecommunications provider. The company uses high-speed access technologies, including broadband wireless access (BWA (Broadband Wireless Access) High-speed wireless access. Typically refers to wireless last mile access to the Internet. See WiMAX and broadband. ) and digital subscriber line See DSL. (communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and (DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary ) for delivery of data, video and ultimately voice services. |
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