[WISPA] Question about ISM and UNII

2012-08-22 Thread Chris Stradtman
Folks, I'm dealing with a situation in a structure where an incumbent cell carrier is claiming full control of the RF spectrum (if I understand correctly from 3 kHzhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHz to 300 GHz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigahertz). This claim is based on a contract with the

Re: [WISPA] Question about ISM and UNII

2012-08-22 Thread Matt Hoppes
Yes, They can contract that with the building/tower owner. All it means is if you want to go on the tower you can't use those frequencies. You can erect a structure on the next available land plot and use them. Matt Hoppes Director of Information Technology Indigo Wireless +1 (570) 723-7312

Re: [WISPA] Question about ISM and UNII

2012-08-22 Thread Chris Stradtman
this is actually inside a structure not on top… but I guess that still applies… Thanks, Chris On Aug 22, 2012, at 12:42 PM, Matt Hoppes mhop...@indigowireless.com wrote: Yes, They can contract that with the building/tower owner. All it means is if you want to go on the tower you can't

Re: [WISPA] Question about ISM and UNII

2012-08-22 Thread Bob Moldashel
The Commission had a real problem with exclusivity arrangements by carriers similar to this that prevented co-location a few years back. I don't know what the outcome was. Same situation where carriers were saying other landline carriers could not enter a location because they had exclusive

Re: [WISPA] Question about ISM and UNII

2012-08-22 Thread Brough Turner
It's certainly the case that a building owner can control whether radios or other wireless gear are installed on their property and they can lease any or all of those rights to anyone they please. However, they can't control the RF signals going into and through their building from elsewhere.

Re: [WISPA] Question about ISM and UNII

2012-08-22 Thread Chris Stradtman
Interestingly the property management company was caught caught by the all RF line in the contract as they wanted to sell wifi and was told they couldn't as per the contract They didn't understand the repercussions of the phrase all RF when they signed the contract. It's also like a 20 or

Re: [WISPA] Question about ISM and UNII

2012-08-22 Thread Gary Garrett
Light them up through the windows from across the street. We have done this to hotels that have rules like that. They are not in control of radio waves coming in, just physical access to the building. On 8/22/2012 9:44 AM, Chris Stradtman wrote: this is actually inside a structure not on