Fred, FiberTower was given the majority of the spectrum licenses back FYI
[cid:image001.jpg@01CE2975.BD4B6370] Daniel White | Managing Director SAF North America LLC Cell: (303) 746-3590 Skype: danieldwhite E-mail: daniel.wh...@saftehnika.com<mailto:daniel.wh...@saftehnika.com> SAF Tehnika & Integra Introduction Video - http://youtu.be/xqrXOq4Uzgg Spectrum Compact Introduction Video - http://youtu.be/2GoNP974B4k [cid:40B6B97A-78D8-4322-9584-2247AEDCEC32] <https://www.facebook.com/SAFTehnika> [cid:C62FF935-06DE-41B5-8D9C-6CDF5978E509] <https://twitter.com/SAFTehnika> [cid:A57FE05F-BC56-4980-982F-1E3DA8E28EBE] <http://www.linkedin.com/company/saf-tehnika-jsc> [cid:0F4D1499-0C92-4A56-9097-3F468F84263A] <http://www.youtube.com/user/SAFTehnika> SAF Tehnika JSC www.saftehnika.com<applewebdata://BB026C49-6C28-4CBB-9885-D4B87260AB34/www.saftehnika.com> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Fred Goldstein Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 10:58 AM To: wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] 38GHz Spectrum Usage On 6/30/2014 10:24 AM, Jack Lehmann wrote: Outside of the distance sensitivities, is there a clear reason why one would or would not want to use this band? If it's readily available in my area, while the FCC bands are quite congested, would there be anything in particular to compel me to keep away from it and figure out how to use one of the other FCC regulated bands (11, 18 and 23)? Can you get permission to use 38 GHz? It is one of those strange bits of spectrum that was a auctioned off in geographic chunks, so given blocks of spectrum had exclusive owners in a given area, like cellular. I guess the idea was that they could then build ptp networks without worrying about coordination. But it never caught on. FiberTower had accumulated a lot of 38 GHz licenses and was trying to lease them out, and had a deal with Dragonwave. But they went bankrupt and the licenses were revoked in 2012. Some other license holders might however be looking to find renters. But since there's no rent on 23 GHz, and it's usually easy enough to license it, why bother? 38G is right between 23 and 60, with less rain fade than 60 and none of that oxygen attenuation (why 80 is usually better), but enough rain fade to limit it to about 2 miles reliably useful range in temperate zones (where are you?). -- Fred R. Goldstein k1io fred "at" interisle.net Interisle Consulting Group +1 617 795 2701
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