Rise Broadband Aims for 50 Mbps Broadband with LTE Fixed Wireless

Rise Broadband, the company formerly known as JAB Broadband that is playing the role of broadband wireless consolidator, said that it plans to deploy fixed broadband wireless equipment based on LTE, beginning initially in the Joplin (MO) area. “What we get is a much higher level of capacity to offer greater speeds and higher usage thresholds,” said Jeff Kohler, Rise Broadband co-founder and chief development officer. “And we leverage worldwide research and development that has gone into LTE.”

Until now Rise Broadband, like many other wireless Internet service providers, has deployed equipment based on time division multiple access (TDMA) and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) technology, Kohler said. In comparison with that equipment, the LTE-based equipment initially will support twice the speed and ultimately more than four times the speed. The company says the LTE fixed wireless broadband technology will support speeds of up to 50 Mbps residentially and up to 100 Mbps for commercial customers.