I'm unfortunate enough to have built a number of my larger 3.65 sites right next to county lines. One of them on the edge of our service territory and just over the county line (literally on County Line Rd.) into a fairly populous county that we could never afford to bid on.
I think this situation is really bad as far as licenses. GAA is fine because it can cross county lines and is only constrained by aggregate interference into PAL protection areas (I'm using CBRS terminology, not sure it applies in this case or not). But I'm a bit fuzzy on PALs and grants from the SAS that could cross a county line. I'm pretty sure you can't do it if you don't have a PAL in both counties, and I'm not sure you can do it even then. -----Original Message----- From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Dennis Burgess via AF Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2020 11:53 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Cc: Dennis Burgess <dmburg...@linktechs.net> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 3.5Ghz FCC Auction 105 Our county opening bid is 44k, so assuming you need two clean 20 MHz channels it would be $176k for that, assuming no one else bids it. You would have to put down 88k to start to bid on it. Assuming we get small business and rural credits that would be lowered by at least 25% ,so we will lower it 25%.. Now we are at $132k and 66k to start. Assuming they provide a no interest payment plan it would be $550 a month over the next 10 years. So one way to look is it would be 66k plus 550 a month, but you had to have the 66k so just assume you could get a loan for it all over 10 years. With a 8% interest it would be around $1,600 a month for the next 10 years. Then after that, I would have to pay again, as I would have to renew my lease. It really comes down to "what can you get it for" and what is it good for. 40 MHz of licensed interference free spectrum in a count y is not horrible, and at 1600 a month, I would think I could make that work. I pay more than that for bandwidth so. Of course when a single block is running for 200k that’s a whole different proposition, that I would not think a WISP could make its investment back on. There are quite a few assumptions as well, do you have the cash to put down to try to win? If not, then it’s a non-issue for you. Or can you get a loan for that and see if you can capitalize on getting your licensed channels. Not stating that is good or not, but you have to look at it like that... Dennis Burgess, MikroTik Certified Trainer MTCNA, MTCRE, MTCWE, MTCTCE, MTCINE, MTCSE, HE IPv6 Sage, Cambium ePMP Certified Author of "Learn RouterOS- Second Edition” Link Technologies, Inc -- MikroTik & WISP Support Services Office: 314-735-0270 Website: http://www.linktechs.net Create Wireless Coverage’s with www.towercoverage.com -----Original Message----- From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Dev Sent: Friday, February 21, 2020 1:30 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 3.5Ghz FCC Auction 105 Which eliminates some very large percentage of the WISP’s in small markets who would be most able to help with the last mile. They’d be laughed out a bank, assuming their bank knows what spectrum is at all. So their option would be to hope no one bids? > On Feb 21, 2020, at 10:41 AM, Seth Mattinen <se...@rollernet.us> wrote: > > On 2/21/20 10:13 AM, Steve Jones wrote: >> look at cook county. crazy. but dont forget there are two bidding >> credits we are eligible for > > > Which are applied to a winning bid, you still have to wire the FCC the full > amount at the beginning to participate. > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
