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Wi-Manx launches WiMAX...nearly

John

Pants 

Nope, also includes the suburbs and nearby towns of Douglas;

http://www.wimanx.com/Wireless/Default.asp?P=Coverage

Andy Turner

Only Douglas? 

It's a bit rubbish if only one bloke can get a signal.

OpenSauce

Community alternative 

Not breaking Manxnet broadband T&C's AFAIK.

http://www.fon.com

Kristjan Kangur

Isle of Man not the first in Europe 

Hi,

It seems that The Register has actually removed some of the countries from Europe as Estonia had commercial WiMAX network already last year. The proof I have right away is the map of the coverage from Norby Telecom here (sorry - in estonian language):

http://www.norby.ee/wimax/kaart3.html

The areas in yellow show the coverage on this map

The news that linked to this map was dated 11.10.2006 and I am sure there were even eariler installations.

Kristjan Kangur

MAN not the first in Europe (cont.) 

Found an english newsflash from Levira, that proves my point made in last comment:

http://www.levira.ee/fl259eng.html

Anonymous Coward

Europe - the release says UK 

They dont claim to have the first in Europe, the website says UK