Hah, I meant FPL. 



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Mike Hammett 

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The Brothers WISP 

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From: "Robert" <i...@avantwireless.com> 
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Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 9:23:35 PM 
Subject: Re: [WISPA] What my spies are talking about 

Department of redundancy department? 

On 1/26/17 6:55 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: 
> Crown is just the latest in a series of fiber-related acquisitions Crown 
> has done. 
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> *From: *"Faisal Imtiaz" <fai...@snappytelecom.net> 
> *To: *"WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> 
> *Sent: *Thursday, January 26, 2017 8:40:46 AM 
> *Subject: *Re: [WISPA] What my spies are talking about 
> 
> 
> 
> Just to add to that.... 
> 
> a) Take all what Brian said below, and add to it the fact that, in many 
> cities they are very quietly installing Micro-Pops, every few blocks, 
> fiber feed (essentially replacing street light poles with, poles which 
> are light poles and micropops). 
> 
> b) The noise and developments in LTE-U 
> 
> c) The very strange, over-priced acquisition of FPL-Fibernet by Crown Castle 
> 
> d) Relatively quite conversion, installation of GPON system on every 
> building that ATT had a Metro Ethernet presence in. 
> 
> e) Hype and noise about Gigabit fiber delivery, installation of fiber 
> based service in select areas, ATT Conversion of their select IFTL 
> neighborhoods to Gigabit fiber.. 
> 
> f) The rumblings about Cable Co's moving over the Docsis 3 
> 
> Granted that this is not ubiquitous across the nation.. but I can see 
> the competitive service providers could easily be starved out by the 
> choke hold on being able to deliver/buy/have access to fat pipe 
> especially in the middle mile. 
> 
> I think in most major metro areas the perceived minimum base level of 
> service offering is going to hit high triple digit numbers in terms of 
> bandwidth i.e. 200meg,300meg,500meg etc... we are already seeing 
> customer expectations / perceptions around 100meg. 
> 
> Regards 
> 
> 
> Faisal Imtiaz 
> Snappy Internet & Telecom 
> 7266 SW 48 Street 
> Miami, FL 33155 
> Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Brian Webster" <i...@wirelessmapping.com> 
>> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> 
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 11:46:38 PM 
>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] What my spies are talking about 
> 
>> Remember, Verizon bought XO Communications. XO has 24 GHz and 39 GHz 
>> spectrum over most of the country, so now Verizon owns that spectrum. They 
>> seem to be taking the same approach Windstream and Google are for last 
> mile 
>> connectivity, but Verizon owns the spectrum. Windstream is leasing 
> spectrum 
>> in these same bands from Straightpath (http://straightpath39.com/) and 
>> Google is looking to build in 70 and 80 GHz with E-Band licenses. All of 
>> the sudden the WISP industry looks good enough for the big boys to do it 
>> too. Cambridge Networks has PTMP radios for these bands already, 600 
> meg per 
>> sector. Hang them on the fiber at the pole and create a very small 
> cell type 
>> system. This will work great for backhaul on their Pico cellular network 
>> expansion for LTE/Cellular as well as a good tool for FTTH and Business 
>> class circuits. 
>> 
>> http://cbnl.com/vectastar-600 
>> 
>> http://cbnl.com/vectastar-platform-introduction 
>> 
>> 
>> Thank You, 
>> Brian Webster 
>> www.wirelessmapping.com 
>> www.Broadband-Mapping.com 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message----- 
>> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On 
>> Behalf Of Fred Goldstein 
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 3:19 PM 
>> To: wireless@wispa.org 
>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] What my spies are talking about 
>> 
>> On 1/25/2017 11:58 AM, Marco Coelho wrote: 
>>> Some of my friends at Verizon are talking a major shift in their Fiber 
>>> Deployment. 
>>> They have decided Fiber to the Home is non practical. They have 
>>> adopted a fiber to the pedestal scheme with the last part of the 
>>> connectivity being wireless to the home. Details on bands used have 
>>> not been provided, but that is apparently their new model. They have 
>>> sold their copper plant in Texas to Frontier as a part of this plan. 
>>> Interesting times. 
>> 
>> That's right. FiOS is basically over, for new builds. Too expensive. 
> It is 
>> mostly down to some FTTPR (fiber to the press release). They told Boston 
>> that they would build FiOS there. Lots of good press last year. 
>> But they actually had built out some neighborhoods about a decade ago, and 
>> simply not activated it. So now they're activating it and claiming it's a 
>> new build. But in the meantime they are planning massive densification of 
>> their wireless capacity, using street light poles, and basically just 
>> building fiber to the pole. They've told this to Wall Street; they haven't 
>> made it clear to the locals. 
>> 
>> While 4G meant LTE, 5G apparently just means "whatever we do after 
> deploying 
>> LTE, because 5 comes after 4". 
>> 
>> ATT has this "IP transition" plan which doesn't have much to do with IP. 
>> It basically means they're abandoning most of the copper, updating some 
>> short loops to U-Verse, and putting in a lot more wireless to replace the 
>> copper. It's not fiber speed but it's cheap. Both AT&T and Verizon are 
> very 
>> very interested in 3.5 GHz CBRS, as well as millimeter wave for where that 
>> works. You may recall that a few months ago, AT&T announced a plan to put 
>> millimeter wave backhaul on top of utility poles, beaming pole to pole 
>> (about half a mile), and using the electrical wires as a sort of waveguide 
>> to help the signal. 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Fred R. Goldstein k1io fred "at" interisle.net 
>> Interisle Consulting Group 
>> +1 617 795 2701 
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