The scenario that has me scratching my head is customer using T-Mobile handset 
in his house 10 feet from his 802.11ac router and 1 mile from the T-Mobile LTE 
tower.  I guess they are assuming in this case the handset has switched to WiFi 
except for voice calls.  But the comments in the article about 5 GHz LTE and 
WiFi co-existing seem to ignore that WiFi transmitters are everywhere as you 
walk down the street, while the LTE towers are a few miles apart, so from an 
interference standpoint they are not on an equal footing.

Also the article talks about handsets with this feature about a year from now.


From: Paul McCall via Af 
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 1:43 PM
To: [email protected] 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] The PG&E smart meter takeover of 900Mhz band, now in 
Tmobile 5ghz band style

That doesn’t look good

 

From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Kranz via Af
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 2:38 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [AFMUG] The PG&E smart meter takeover of 900Mhz band, now in Tmobile 
5ghz band style

 

I assume everyone saw this today: 
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/12/t-mobile-to-offer-lte-over-5ghz-wi-fi-airwaves-to-boost-data-rates/

 

Really bad news for any WISP with TMobile in their region. Could be our tragedy 
of the commons in 5Ghz.

 

Peter Kranz
Founder/CEO - Unwired Ltd
www.UnwiredLtd.com
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Mobile: 510-207-0000
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