Frankly, it's worse Caleb. The "rural broadband" allocation of 3.65 GHz is most definitively NOT WISP spectrum, but rather is spectrum WISPs can use for a specific use. That in itself is rare, as the FCC pretends it prefers "flexible use" rules that allow the market to decide best use. In this specific case, the FCC determined the public interest was best served by setting this spectrum aside for the specific purpose of rural broadband. True (and I know it to be true because I was there), their expectation was that WISPs would be the ones to deploy most likely, but absolutely nothing prevents, say, Verizon from rolling out a national 3.65 deployment should it want to do so.
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Caleb Knauer <cknauer.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I may put on my jerk hat for a second, what makes you think 5Ghz is > WISP spectrum? It's not, just like 900/2.4Ghz isn't. You can't own > unlicensed frequency, and as long as the gear is following P15 rules > then there's pretty much nothing that you can do. 900Mhz died that > way, and who knows what the future holds for 5Ghz. The only block you > could consider "WISP spectrum" is 3.65, and with so many using the > band that don't play by the rules with regards to registration etc I > think maybe the feds are going to have a hard time allocating more > this way. > > Also, go ahead and point your stuff at big red/blue, and while you may > be within your legal rights it won't be a fun fight. Actually if they > are just one way 5Ghz for downstream then it won't do anything to them > anyway. > > Or maybe I'm just tired and cranky. > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Tim Reichhart <t...@nwohiobb.com> wrote: > > That means can we point our 5ghz backhaul stuff at there towers and make > > there signal about worthless? If so that would teach cell phone companies > > not to mess with WISP’s spectrum. > > > > > > > > From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Peter Kranz > > Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 12:03 PM > > To: af@afmug.com > > Subject: [AFMUG] More LTE tradgedy of the commons on 5 GHz.. > > > > > > > > If systems like this end up rolling out on cell sites across the nation > we > > are going to see some tough times getting clear channels. I’ve seen > several > > proposals now for tower based systems that use very large swaths of 5Ghz > as > > alternative LTE data paths to cell phones with multi-channel BW designed > to > > suck up every free piece of 5Ghz spectrum found. > > > > > > > > http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/02/t-mobile-alcatel-wifi-and-4g-fight/ > > > > > > > > Peter Kranz > > Founder/CEO - Unwired Ltd > > www.UnwiredLtd.com > > Desk: 510-868-1614 x100 > > Mobile: 510-207-0000 > > pkr...@unwiredltd.com > > > > > -- Patrick Leary Director BD, North America, Telrad 727.501.3735 patrickleary.af...@gmail.com [this address is only for AFMUG] patrick.le...@telrad.com <patrick.le...@telrad.com> [this is my corporate address]
