We have a spectrum compact for that *ducks*
Daniel White – Managing Director SAF North America LLC Cell: (303) 746-3590 Skype: danieldwhite daniel.wh...@saftehnika.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Seth Mattinen > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 10:09 AM > To: af@afmug.com > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Licensed backhaul pricing - still ridiculous > > On 1/15/15 7:25 AM, That One Guy wrote: > > Excluding license fees, high quality unlicensed radios are at or > > higher than the cost of licensed radios. Granted this is my limited > > experience with one link and five vendors vetted. The trade off in > > path profile validity with no interference has an immeasurable value, > > pricing the licensed links way under the unlicensed gear. > > you also want to take into account the price point keeping the > > spectrum cleaner. If say UBNT came out with some licensed link at 2k. > > Everybody and their brother would hop on those links, eat up the > > available spectrum shut down the market, leaving you only the option > > to put fiber in the ground, now that licensed link wouldnt seem so > > expensive. I dont want to see licensed links come down in price for > > that very reason alone. We cover an area where the average joe is > > priced out of that market, we just finally got to the point we can get > > into licensed links on a small scale. I know there are alot of regular > > entities putting up air fiber to get 100mbit throughput. There are > > tons of ptp cambium radios in the air around here, all of which would > > be licensed links if they came down even 5%. Then there would be > > nothing left in a short period of time > > > > > How optimistic to think that people that would buy a licensed band UBNT > goldfish would actually license it with the FCC. They'd probably just turn it > on > with the highest power and widest channel it supports and f*ck over > everyone else chasing down interference. > > ~Seth
