I don't know what the beef is. FleetCall bought up in the vicinity of 100
trunking & SMR channels in each major metro almost 20 yrs ago. They claimed
to the FCC that they could serve significantly more users than the typical
100 users/channel of the current early 90s analog technology. 100 channels
at 100 users apiece serves only in the vicinity of 10,000 users. With the
iDen technology they ultimately served almost half a million in the same
geographic area with the same spectrum. So much for the "unneeded
technology" assessment.
Now that they're called NexTel, sure they continue adding whatever remaining
licenses they can get their hands on, but the 800 and 900 Trunking and bands
are land-locked (no room for expansion), so there's no new technology
targeted to this band that I know of. Now that they're merged with Sprint,
it's no secret where their new technology is targeted (WiMAX).
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Scrivner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Sprint / Nextel to use 900mz for iDen
I am not familiar with the terms you describe below and I am a bit
confused. Can you break this down with a little more detail and
explanation? I would like to understand this as I think it is very
important for us to know what they are trying to do here in 900 MHz.
Thank you,
John Scrivner
rwf wrote:
Nextel has been buying up 900 MHz trunked systems for years now.
Probably will do what they did to build their first ESMR (Nextel IDEN)-
Take perfectly good systems off the air so they can drive the users to an
unneeded tcchnology.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Tom DeReggi
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 9:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [WISPA] Sprint / Nextel to use 900mz for iDen
I think this is definately something we need the answer to (What part of
900Mhz). What exactly is "Green Space"?
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 4:38 PM
Subject: [WISPA] Sprint / Nextel to use 900mz for iDen
http://www.rcrnews.com/news.cms?newsId=27618
They don't say exact freq's except for the reference to "unlicensed"...
R
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