TVWS is in an untenable situation. One the one hand, what's left
of the spectrum keeps getting chipped away by cellular companies
buying up bits and pieces of it, second hand the rules almost
certify that you won't have adjacent channels, third hand the
equipment (so far) has been under performing and over pricing,
and fourth hand the measly 6 MHz channels require some LTE+ kind
of technology to squeeze out any decent bandwidth.
My conclusion is that you're best off by not wasting any brain cycles on it.
bp
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In my opinion, TVWS has been a complete shit-show for the past 10 years, and I would be hesitant to throw any money at it.
Someone feel free to change my mind. :)
On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 9:53 AM David Coudron <[email protected]> wrote:
--We have a couple of areas in our network that remain problem coverage areas. The typical scenario is a handful of customers that are 5-10 miles from a decent tower structure, but really want service. We have usually either passed on providing coverage, or messed around with relaying from other customers or some other messy scenario. We are looking for a workable non-los solution for these few spots. We don’t need to get dozens of folks on a tower, and a higher than normal cost is OK, but it needs to be stable enough it is better than the relays and other messy solutions we have come up with. We keep looking at 900 MHz, but it looks like Cambium is the only one left in this game, and we are pretty worried about noise as we are in the middle of farm country and the RTK stuff is pretty prevalent. Has anyone had enough experience with TV white space to develop an opinion on its ability to be used in this situation? There only seems to be two vendors in this space, Redline and Carlson, but maybe there are others we are missing. We are looking for a solution that would cover customers 5-7 miles in non-los situations with rate plans of 20-25 Mbps. Is this possible?
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