PCCW Launches Broadband Wireless Service in UK

PCCW has launched a UMTS TDD-based wireless broadband network in the UK using the 3.4GHz spectrum it acquired last year. Under its subsidiary UK Broadband, PCCW, one of Asia's leading integrated communications companies, is offering a high-speed wireless service to residential and business customers living in an area west of London at rates starting at only GBP 18 per month. The broadband wireless services uses a plug-and-play IPWireless modem available in high street shops or ordered over the Internet. Because the IPWireless UMTS TDD technology is wireless, subscribers can have a broadband connection in any room in the house. Subscribers will have an initial choice of a 512 Kbps or 1 Mbps services. http://www.ukbroadband.co.ukhttp://www.ipwireless.com