Nir Barkan, CEO of Curvalux, has told Wireless Watch’s sister service, Faultline, how fixed wireless access (FWA) will pit fixed-line ISPs against insurgent MNOs. Curvalux’s largest customer is Globe Telecom in the Philippines, an operator with some 40m subscribers, which has been deploying using the unlicensed bands in the 5-6 GHz range. Proof of concept deployments with other operators are underway, for the new generation of millimeter wave Edge Nodes, for bands north of 30 GHz – although usually using licensed bands in that range. Barkan explained that Curvalux’s technology is far more power-efficient than the Massive MIMO options available to MNOs currently, which use LTE and 5G technologies. While the latter can use tens of kilowatts per tower, Barkan…