Simply not going to happen. WiMAX gear is way too expensive for what little it delivers. The frequencies\power aren't yet there to deliver mobility cost effectively. Far too many Indians and not enough chiefs.
The cable industry has Comcast, Charter, Mediacom. The worst of those has to have over 10M customers. DSL has AT&T, Verizon, bajillion other companies overseas with tens of millions of customers. WISPs have... JAB at 50k. We can't feed off the mother hen when the mother hen barely hits the radar. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "John Scrivner" <j...@scrivner.com> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 7:12 PM To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: [WISPA] Mobility and Roaming was: Wifi outperforms Cellular andWimax > Sadly WISPs have dragged their feet in development of true mobility > and roaming. These features are the true differentiators of wireless > broadband over DSL or DOCSIS. The cellular industry is more quickly > adapting to the need to move to an IP centric platform for their > mobile voice/data systems than we are in recognizing the compelling > desire of everyone to have everything available to them everywhere > with mobility. Land lines are going away and wireless MOBILE phones > are increasing in quantity. WISPs may well lose out in the end if they > do not band together to form interoperability standards for mobile IP, > VoIP, roaming, etc. Last I checked there is not a single WISPA member > network out there which is fully mobile with integrated roaming with > another operator. Until WISPs do this they are doomed to a future of a > decreasing position in the future of broadband industry market share. > I predict that total customer counts served via traditional WISPs will > max within 18 months and then down turn if we do not address the > issues of roaming and mobility. If any of you have built a truly good > mobility roaming gateway solution which allows for WISPs to tie their > networks together and offer mobility then I welcome some feedback on > the subject. What about truly mobile and roaming capable voice > services over IP? Anyone out there ever build the equivalent of the > ASN gateway for our networks? I am ready to start negotiating > connection to this and right now we do not even have access to > anything to connect to. > Scriv > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Scott Parsons <sc...@e-zy.net> wrote: >> This was very interesting: >> >> http://www.muniwireless.com/2009/02/03/muni-wifi-outperforms-cellular-and-wi >> max/ >> >> Way to go WISPS! >> >> Scott >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
