One point you need to remember Travis is that that "barely 1 mbps" you are getting is with a self-install CPE that was either mailed to you or you picked in a retail shop, correct? If so, you likely had it up and running in under 5 minutes and they did not have to roll a truck. Chances are, you can also take that CPE anywhere with you around town and it will connect. You can also pop out the SIM card and pop in into any other Alvarion self-install CPE in town and your specific services will pop right up.
That 1 mbps you are getting through your wall is certainly better than any neighboring fixed outdoor 900 MHz Canopy connection in both average up and down steam that I have seen and it uses a smaller channel AND goes through your wall AND required no truck roll (unless you are one of those that have an outdoor CPE). Patrick Leary AVP, Market Development Alvarion, Inc. o: 650.314.2628 c: 760.580.0080 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 8:55 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Future Regardless... my point is they have invested $40M and I am offering higher speeds, for less money, with less cost per CPE and AP... and I have 10x the coverage they do in my market. The GM even mentioned "and if Sprint or Clearwire were to come to town with a check, we would definitely look at it"... which means, once again, they are not in it for the long haul... and their customer service, and quality of service, will show that the longer they are in business. They are looking for the "buyout" to take their money (and profit) and run. Travis Microserv Patrick Leary wrote: > Actually, most of that $40M would have been for spectrum acquisition, > which in the accounting world is marked as an asset. They also > constructed a major NOC center. The wireless hardware is a small > minority of the spending. > > > > Patrick > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Travis Johnson > Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 6:36 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Future > > > > Hi, > > A new player just came to my area... BridgeMaxx (a Digital Bridge > company). They are using Alvarion WiMax equipment. We have a test radio > that we play with. We have their "up to 3meg premium service" and we > barely get 1meg (any time we have tested over the last 3 months). > > Here's the real kicker... they will have spent $40 million dollars to > roll out 15 cities (this is direct from their GM to me). She was pretty > proud of herself with that statement. So that's $2.6 million per city... > and I'm talking some cities with 15,000 population (their biggest had > 120,000). > > Travis > Microserv > > Chuck McCown - 2 wrote: > > WiMAX was dead, is dead and will remain dead. OK, not factually true > but > emotionally true. The cell companies will use WiMax frequencies and > technologies but they will be a premium service and not well suited to > compete with us for point to multi point fixed wireless. It will never > live > up to the hype. > > All the cell data technologies will remain premium for folks on the go. > Cell does not want to squander the bandwidth to go after the value > driven > customer that love us so much. Cell is and will not be value leader for > > fixed wireless. technologies. > > 700 MHz is just not going to be used for anything other than more cell > spectrum. The bands are narrow. Good for phone and limited amounts of > data. Great propagation. Problem with 700 MHz is that the size of the > antenna will be problematic for really small cell phones. Less gain > than > the current 900 and 1800 antennas for the same physical sizes. Also > there > will be a few years of implementation due to moving some existing TV > stations. And some of them are not moving for some reason. I don't > know if > they get a special dispensation or what. > > All ILECs will continue to build out with fiber to the home. That will > erode market share for WISPs in some areas. This is a slow and capital > intensive process so no reason to get jumpy on that. Plus many folks > prefer > to deal with us vs a large public traded company. Superior customer > service > and support will always retain the customer. > > The cable companies will continue to shoot themselves in the foot and > drop > the balls. They are sooo freaked out by the erosion of customer base > from > DirecTV that they are not managing the IP side of the house as well as > they > could. They will continue to get in a tighter and tighter cash > situation > from satellite TV pressing from one side and the ILEC FTTH (and us) from > the > other. > > In the meantime, we add VOIP, computer repair, data backup, web > development, > OTA HDTV install and maint, etc as cross sell and up sell opportunities. > > All of us can offer triple play if we team up with DirecTV or OTA HDTV. > OTA > HDTV is a wonderful opportunity for the next 18 months for the value > conscious customer. Stock UHF TV antennas and converter boxes and help > folks get their analog TVs converted over. Less work than a WISP > install > and you will lock in the customer even more with superior customer > service. > You can rent them the gear for $5/month and make it a low cost package. > > In 5 years hopefully your investment will be a cash cow and you will > ride > this horse until it dies. Perhaps other technologies will come along > for us > to deploy but I see our segment strong for the next 5 years. In 10 > years, > if we have not diversified, we will probably be hurting. > > Oh, and satellite ISP will never do much. Pesky physics. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Hammett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "WISPA List" <wireless@wispa.org> <mailto:wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 6:44 PM > Subject: [WISPA] Future > > > > > What do you see as the future of our industry over the next 5 > years? > > AT&T is expanding U-Verse (will this be available outside of > town?) > Verizon is expanding FiOS (will this be available outside of > town?) > Cable will be using DOCSIS 3 > 3G will gain more steam > WiMAX will have larger and larger shares of the market > 700 MHz will be in use possibly for data communications by the > big guys > > > My banker asked me, so I figured I'd see what other's opinions > are. > > My thought is that the big guys mentioned above will continue to > avoid the > niche that we currently serve and we'll be able to provide > better services > with more spectrum (5.4 GHz, additional 2.5 GHz, 3.6 GHz, > possibly TV > white spaces) and WiMAX. > > > ---------- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------- > WISPA Wants You! 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