{"id":87,"date":"2008-06-18T14:15:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T19:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2008-06-18T14:15:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T19:15:33","slug":"lu-wimax-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"LU WIMAX on hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"article_font\">LU have been put on hold the selection of a company to bring a new wireless Internet service to Lynchburg.<\/p>\n<p>A Liberty University is waiting for Sprint and Clearwire to complete the formation of their new, national WiMAX network.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, discussions with other service providers that have expressed interest are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>A WiMAX system is an emerging wireless Internet technology that offers better security and signal range than WiFi.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Liberty University and Virginia School of the Arts announced a partnership to bring the service to Lynchburg.<\/p>\n<p>Each school had some licenses for broadcast channels \u2014 formerly used for educational television \u2014 to lease out.<\/p>\n<p>They were looking for bids from companies that could provide free or low-cost wireless Internet access to Liberty students plus regular access to other Lynchburg area residents.<\/p>\n<p>On May 7 Clearwire and Sprint announced a joint venture to combine their WiMAX business segments to create a new company.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LU have been put on hold the selection of a company to bring a new wireless Internet service to Lynchburg. A Liberty University is waiting&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=87\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LU WIMAX on hold<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-features","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}