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A wireless Internet service provider (WISP) is an Internet service provider with a network based on wireless networking. Technology may include commonplace Wi-Fi wireless mesh networking, or proprietary equipment designed to operate over open 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz, 4.9, 5.2, 5.4, 5.7, and 5.8 GHz bands or licensed frequencies in the UHF band (including the MMDS frequency band) and LMDS In the US, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released Report and Order, FCC 05-56 in 2005 that revised the FCC’s rules to open the 3650 MHz band for terrestrial wireless broadband operations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/index.htm?job=service_home&id=3650_3700 )〕 On November 14, 2007 the Commission released Public Notice (DA 07-4605) in which the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau announced the start date for licensing and registration process for the 3650-3700 MHz band.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-07-4605A1.pdf )〕 As of July 2015, there are over 1,280 fixed wireless broadband providers operating in the US covering 51% of the US population.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=List of Fixed Wireless Broadband Providers in the US )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Overview ofFixed Wireless Broadband in the US )〕 ==History== Initially, WISPs were only found in rural areas not covered by cable or DSL.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/columns/article.php/3652986 )〕 The first WISP in the world was LARIAT, a non-profit rural telecommunications cooperative founded in 1992 in Laramie, Wyoming. LARIAT originally used WaveLAN equipment, manufactured by the NCR Corporation, which operated on the 900 MHz unlicensed radio band. LARIAT was taken private in 2003 and continues to exist as a for-profit wireless ISP. Another early WISP was a company called Internet Office Parks in Johannesburg, South Africa that was founded by Roy Pater, Brett Airey and Attila Barath in January 1996 when they realized the South African Telco, Telkom could not keep up with the demand for dedicated Internet links for business use. Using what was one of the first wireless LAN products available for wireless barcode scanning in stores, called Aironet (now owned by Cisco), they worked out if they ran a dedicated Telco link into the highest building in a business area or CBD they could wirelessly "cable" up all the other buildings back to this main point and would only require one link from the Telco to connect up hundreds of businesses at the same time. In turn each "satellite" building was wired up with Ethernet so each business connected into the Ethernet LAN could instantly get Internet access. Due to the immaturity of wireless technology, security issues and being forced constantly by Telkom SA (Then the government Telco in South Africa) to cease its service, the company closed its doors in Jan 1999. There were 879 Wi-Fi based WISPs in the Czech Republic as of May 2008,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.internetprovsechny.cz%2Fwifi-poskytovatele.php&hl=cs&ie=UTF8&sl=cs&tl=en )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bezdratovepripojeni.cz&hl=cs&ie=UTF8&sl=cs&tl=en )〕 making it the country with most Wi-Fi access points in the whole EU.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ey.com/global/content.nsf/Czech_Republic_E/2007_WiFi_survey_EN ) 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.volweb.cz/horvitz/os-info/czech.html )〕 The providing of wireless Internet has a big potential of lowering the "digital gap" or "Internet gap" in the developing countries. Geekcorps actively help in Africa with among others wireless network building. An example of a typical WISP system is such as the one deployed by Gaiacom Wireless Networks which is based on Wi-Fi standards. The One Laptop per Child project strongly relies on good Internet connectivity, which can most likely be provided in rural areas only with satellite or wireless network Internet access. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wireless Internet service provider」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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