On 1/15/15 7:25 AM, That One Guy wrote:
Excluding license fees, high quality unlicensed radios are at or higher than the cost of licensed radios. Granted this is my limited experience with one link and five vendors vetted. The trade off in path profile validity with no interference has an immeasurable value, pricing the licensed links way under the unlicensed gear. you also want to take into account the price point keeping the spectrum cleaner. If say UBNT came out with some licensed link at 2k. Everybody and their brother would hop on those links, eat up the available spectrum shut down the market, leaving you only the option to put fiber in the ground, now that licensed link wouldnt seem so expensive. I dont want to see licensed links come down in price for that very reason alone. We cover an area where the average joe is priced out of that market, we just finally got to the point we can get into licensed links on a small scale. I know there are alot of regular entities putting up air fiber to get 100mbit throughput. There are tons of ptp cambium radios in the air around here, all of which would be licensed links if they came down even 5%. Then there would be nothing left in a short period of time
How optimistic to think that people that would buy a licensed band UBNT goldfish would actually license it with the FCC. They'd probably just turn it on with the highest power and widest channel it supports and f*ck over everyone else chasing down interference.
~Seth
