overview
UltraFast T1 Wireless, headquartered in Barrie, Ontario, was pioneered in June of 2001 with its test centre located on Anne St in Barrie to provide low-cost, high-speed wireless bandwidth to small, medium and large businesses. As a wholesale carrier, UltraFast T1 Wireless deploys and operates “last mile” broadband networks in Simcoe County, with plans to expand to other market areas in2004. Affordability and speed of deployment are key competitive advantages.

affordable bandwidth: a business model that works
Utilizing license-free spectrum, open-access architecture, and low-cost IP infrastructure, UltraFast T1 Wireless is able to provide data access at a cost-per-Mbps significantly lower than traditional wireline carriers offering DSL and T-1 services—with data rate availability and upstream speeds far superior to that of cable or DSL.

Its modular wireless architecture also gives UltraFast T1 Wireless the “point-and-shoot” flexibility to add additional radios, quickly and easily expanding capacity. The speed of subscriber-side deployment is far superior as well, with new installations up-and-running within 7 - 10 business days.

the broadband market realities
Broadband growth in the past few years has been phenomenal. Internet traffic continues to grow at the astonishing rate of 200% annually. In the US alone, Internet users are estimated to include 42 million business users and 34 million households. Sales of digital devices requiring high-bandwidth capabilities are skyrocketing despite the current slowdown in the economy. And the growth of bandwidth-demanding rich media, streaming audio and video, graphic and database files, and ASP-hosted applications continues.

Telecom providers have responded to the forecasted growth statistics by building out the nation’s long-range fiber networks. But the bottleneck has been the “last mile” access, and the inability of the existing copper wire infrastructure to carry compressed data at true broadband speeds to a high-enough percentage of businesses and homes.

Wireline technologies that could potentially meet the bandwidth demands, such as cable modem and DSL networks, have many obstacles to overcome in order to reach success: the high cost of head-end upgrades, long lead times to deploy, and a complex, slow and arbitrary service delivery process.

the advantages of UltraFast T1 Wireless
Enter UltraFast T1 Wireless. Founded by a group of experienced telecom and wireless operations executives, UltraFast T1 Wireless set out to craft the most compelling last mile broadband delivery system to date. Every component of UltraFast T1 Wireless’s network was chosen to hold down the overall cost of providing robust and reliable bandwidth. (See our technology spec sheet for details.)

As a result, UltraFast T1 Wireless has several unique advantages that benefit both our distribution network partners and their customers:

• Low cost. Low monthly broadband access fees and no contract minimums allow distributors to offer significantly less expensive services to customers while maintaining higher margins.
• Fast installation. Installation takes only a few hours and is accomplished within seven days of service request by the customer,(assuming a favourable Line of Site, compared with 2-6 weeks to provision T-1 and DSL service.
• Bandwidth availability and flexibility. UltraFast T1 Wireless’s architecture allows us to put service where it’s needed. And our network enables “power users” to jump up to higher sustained data rates on relatively short notice. With a phone call to UltraFast T1 Wireless, a user can get a data rate increase from 400kbps up to 1 Mbps service within a matter of hours(depending on availabilty, of course)
• Superior customer service. Because UltraFast T1 Wireless owns and operates its own network we have direct control over network performance, installation support and network availability, allowing us to provide comprehensive and rigorous structural support to our distributors that far exceeds that of the traditional phone companies or LECs. We also become another resource to our distributors by providing training and literature that helps to educate their sales teams on how to sell the service.

As well, YDI is one of the world’s most comprehensive wireless network design resources. .