Most of the contracts I have seen were for 100Mbps at the time and 1Gb in a few years. It’s been a few years since I have seen a contract though.
So the guy was probably right that he installed 100Mb service, but it’s likely been upgraded since. Mark > On Mar 2, 2018, at 11:48 AM, Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net> wrote: > > The information he has is probably four years old. > > They're moving to dark fiber or tubes of dark fiber. A Sprint tower can move > 1.3 gigs, with some doing more. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > From: "Kurt Fankhauser" <lists.wavel...@gmail.com > <mailto:lists.wavel...@gmail.com>> > To: af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> > Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 9:03:07 AM > Subject: [AFMUG] Typical Cell Tower bandwidth requirement > > I was talking to a Spectrum employee yesterday as he was installing a 1gig > fiber circuit for me and he started talking about how un-common it was to be > seeing a 1 gig DIA circuit installed so i said well what about the cell phone > towers, don't those all have a couple gigs to them and he said. "Oh no those > usually only have 100meg fiber feeds to them." I was like whoa, thats all? > And he said "yeah all the Sprint, T-mobile, and At&T towers that he's been to > are all like 100meg and he's like usually the Verizon ones are about 300meg > circuits." > > Does that really sound possible that a cell tower is only using that much > bandwidth? We are pretty rural here county population is only 45,000 and the > city populations are only about 12,000. Can this really be true? And if so > why can't a WISP sell a backup circuit to a cell tower with some Air Fiber > equipment?
