Well, I think WISPA is saying that the FCC is working to release 750 MHz of spectrum for backhaul purposes. Let's keep this for PtMP. If given sufficient power levels, this new backhaul spectrum should work just fine.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com On 9/15/2010 1:50 PM, Fred Goldstein wrote: > At 9/14/2010 02:11 PM, Jack Unger wrote: >> FiberTower (and the mobile broadband industry) has been and still >> is fighting hard to LICENSE 36-MHz wide chunks of TV White Space. >> WISPA has been and is continuing to fight back hard against the >> FiberTower Group proposal. If FiberTower is successful, will be >> able to blow big holes through the TVWS spectrum that would have >> been available for WISPs to use. This is a "fight to the death" for >> TVWS. We are continuing waging to wage this fight as we speak and >> we will continue fighting right up to (and if need be, beyond) the >> 9/23 FCC Open Meeting. > Jack, reading their latest ex parte, it looked as if they were > specifically targeting areas with many vacant channels, and asking to > use only a subset of them for high-powered backhaul > applications. Would this be detrimental to the WISP community? If > it really were limited such that unlicensed or lightly-licensed (Part > 90 nonexclusive) white space had priority in areas with very few > channels, then I don't see the harm in their proposal. Indeed it > could be useful for the WISP community too, if (and only if) > non-exclusive, as it would allow us to build high-powered backhaul > links too. A Part 101-type path licensing regime would also allow that. > > This might be a more practical compromise position, no? > > -- > Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com > ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ > +1 617 795 2701 > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
