I have a dissenting opinion...
It all comes down to a simple economics in the end. Who can most cost
effectively provide broadband.
A cellular network is built for coverage
Additionally, large companies, from a scale and operations perspective, will
tend to put the same equipment
By the same token I doubt they are going to have separate plans for
rural and urban sites so what they do in the hinterlands they will have
to support in the population centers. An interesting question will be
can I pick up my 'fixed' equipment and haul somewhere else and use it,
which would
Charles,
I think you should rephrase your statement - Cellular networks (especially
in metropolitan areas) WERE built for coverage. With 4G services, they are
built for capacity. I doubt the coverage metric will change in rural areas
though.
There is also a major question on backhaul.
Cellular systems in urban areas are built for capacity. Thats why you have
so many low level sites, frequency reuse. Capacity rules king.
In rural areas, coverage rules. That is why they use a lot of
intellirepeater sites, that actually work off close existing sites, with
very minimal
Didn't Verizon announce FIOS is pretty much dead at this point. I
thought I read they are fulfilling their current obligations, but
planned no new rollouts in the forseeable future.
On 10/27/11 11:20 AM, Daniel White wrote:
Charles,
I think you should rephrase your statement - Cellular
I believe FiOS already covers a good portion of their existing (urban)
coverage area.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
On 10/27/2011 11:44 AM, Sam Tetherow wrote:
Didn't Verizon announce FIOS is pretty much dead at this point. I
thought I read they
In Indiana they have been selling everything they can unload. Most of the East
Side of Indiana was Verizon now Frontier. In Fort Wayne 2 year ago the dumbed
a bunch in FIOS and sold it less than a year later.
I believe that with the FCC decision today Verizon sees its future as 100%
Hello.
I'm experiencing a big problem in my part of the world. I'm loosing
customers every week because of the big guys are getting stronger and
stronger every day. I have a different problem than you guys in that the
big company has brought fiber to the entire town where I have my small
It makes it easier to increase your penetration percentage when you sell
off what you don't intend on putting fiber in.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
On 10/27/2011 1:09 PM, Steve Barnes wrote:
In Indiana they have been selling everything they can
At 10/27/2011 03:10 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:
It makes it easier to increase your penetration percentage when you sell
off what you don't intend on putting fiber in.
Worse. They sold off what they could of that plant where they didn't
intend to put in fiber. But they couldn't sell it all. So
I just wounder...
if they start selling fixed wireless on their mobile network, will
they be able to weasel out of the Network Neutrality rules for fixed
wireless?
On 10/27/2011 4:26 PM, Fred Goldstein wrote:
At 10/27/2011 03:10 PM, Mike Hammett
One major factor you have to consider for Verizon and FIOs is the union
problem. Verizon had established specialized teams to deploy fiber and were
moving along at or ahead of schedule and budgets. The teams would go to the
new areas and stay to get the work done. Then the union stepped up and
That's right Blake, and it was way before 4G that designing for capacity
came into play. Before I became a wisp in '03, I had designed and had a part
in building over 1000 cell sites for 4 different carriers in 3 different
countries. In the mid-90s companies were going for coverage only. They
Dear All
I am not from USA and I am very curious about free wifi access in the
metro area in USA. I was wondering:
1) is there any metro free wifi access (NY, LA, etc)
2) I know some time ago some private effort has been done (I guess by
google) but I also remember that those networks
1) Typically cities try, get bids and the company drops the idea. It
doesn't offer a good return on investment.
2) Yep, many many times
3) I would. I'd lose customers and I'm paying for it to happen!
4) There are several success stories involving this, I don't have one myself
Josh Luthman
But what did you know right Cameron? The arrogance and ignorance of carriers
still never ceases to amaze me. Most times it is due to the fact that the
person in that position of network design authority, who should already know
those answers, simply does not and feel like they need to draw the
Hi Josh
thank you for your nice reply. :)
I hope that also other WISPs will express an opinion about this topic.
Regards,
Paolo
1) Typically cities try, get bids and the company drops the idea. It
doesn't offer a good return on investment.
2) Yep, many many times
3) I would. I'd lose
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