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My tech guy wanted me to tell you the speed is 15 up and 15 down
(synchronous), which is not available on a cable modem.

That's true...I did say "two and a half", I believe.

Unless you're saying that each user will be getting 15Mbps symmetric (I
believe "symmetric" is the word you want, not "synchronous"), I don't see
the speed to be all that impressive. It's nice it's symmetric, but the
reason asymmetric connections work so well for DSL and cable modems is that
most users are doing a lot more downloading than uploading.

Unless you're selling this service to people hosting web sites, I don't
think the symmetric nature is all that important, and the 15Mbps download
pipe isn't very different from existing residential service (by only a
factor of 2.5 in the example I cited). And as Todd points out, it's
extremely close to one recent service roll-out in the US (and while I don't
have first-hand experience with broadband abroad, my understanding is that
we in the US are way behind the rest of the developed world in terms of
residential bandwidth).

15 megs is the fastest the local service provider can provide.
There are over 20 antennas, radios and amps. There are also a number of
wireless bridges required to cover the 10 square miles.
Again I can't say much, but I'm sure you can't even get the service
installed for the amount you figured.

It wasn't clear from your post that the service would be guaranteed
available over 100% of the airport. You're right, there is a more
considerable investment required for that sort of layout.

That said, the broader coverage you're talking about will require many more
users for break-even, making the 15Mbps bandwidth even less impressive.
Even just 100 simultaneous users will drop average performance to marginal
levels.

Anyway, as I said, it's nice that ANY Internet access will be available. I
just hope no one is expecting a lot of bang for their buck.

Pete