Well, Open Range has been gone for quite awhile. But people are not looking for us to help them lawyer up and fight their neighbors over an antenna. They are looking for us to fix the problem by providing them service without an outdoor antenna.
This is probably more of an issue in town, we are more rural. But HOA covenants aside, many people will be on the opposite side of the building from the tower. And even OTARD doesn’t let you put an antenna on common areas, only the areas for your exclusive use like a balcony. So there will always be some demand for indoor CPE, probably not a ton though. And as people have noted, Mimosa seems optimistic about how well this will work. From: Hass, Douglas A. via Af Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 8:27 AM To: mailto:[email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mimosa did it again J While you certainly can contract away certain rights, this isn’t one of them. It’s like trying to contract with your employee that you will give him a 1099 or not pay him overtime. Your employee an sign it, but you can’t enforce it. OTARD trumps any contract laws that purport to force some other regime. There’s still quite a bit of confusion out there on this among HOAs, surprisingly. A local government, HOA, neighborhood association, etc. can’t enforce a covenant that impairs the installation, maintenance or use of antennas covered by OTARD (and yours are) in “exclusive use” areas. Many (most?) HOAs have long since fixed their covenants so that the restrictions apply only to common areas (like a roof of a multiunit condo building) or only when there’s some common antenna for use. You have to look at the covenant, but I would be very surprised if you couldn’t still service all of those customers who called. Ken—hit me up off list if you are still getting calls like these and we can look at what you have. Doug From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett via Af Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 7:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mimosa did it again Doug Haas's favorite example is that it's illegal to kill somebody. You can't sign a contract to kill somebody and make it legal. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ken Hohhof via Af" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 7:47:00 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mimosa did it again When Open Range went poof, we got several calls from people in townhomes who really loved their indoor CPEs, their HOA didn’t allow outdoor antennas, and OTARD was no use because they had signed a covenant. From: Rory Conaway via Af Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 7:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mimosa did it again This is going to have limited use the U.S.. Unfortunately , with tax credits for certain type of windows and window films, most of our windows don’t work well with indoor radios. We did a test one day and found that it was easier to get the signal through red brick than the window it surrounded. However, we have been installing 2.4GHz radios in windows in pre-built homes very successfully since they don’t have tinting. On another note, it’s also why you don’t want to put your radar detector on the top of the windshield. Rory From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett via Af Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 6:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mimosa did it again This is better than previous attempts in that it's a beamforming antenna on the CPE. It shapes the beam to point at the best signal it sees. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jason McKemie via Af" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 2:25:25 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mimosa did it again Allowing customers to install their own CPE is a bad idea in any unlicensed frequency, both for your network as well as the spectrum in general. On Wednesday, November 12, 2014, Stefan Englhardt via Af <[email protected]> wrote: Now Mimosa announced an indoor window mountable CPE: „Mimosa's C5i just changed urban Internet forever! Never wait on your service provider install again. Self-install in seconds and experience 500+ Mbps!“ To the mimosa Fans: How they change physics to make 5GHz penetrate through windows. We have not much luck doing this with 3,5GHz licensed, beamforming and high power. Douglas A. 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