Lots of nice bullet points like beamforming outdoor CPE and auto tuning antennas (whatever that means), not sure about the tons of idle rural spectrum they assume is lying around and how quickly that would get eaten up with fixed broadband.
What strikes me though is this is intended as an addition to mobile LTE infrastructure, and I suspect the cost for a WISP to deploy it solely for fixed wireless would be even higher than Telrad. And at those price points, I can’t see doing it in unlicensed spectrum, you would really want licensed spectrum to make that kind of investment. Whether PALs in 3550 MHz will meet that criterion, I’m not sure. It surely addresses where I see the FCC going, which is to accept and probably subsidize fixed wireless in high cost areas to meet broadband deployment goals and as part of the IP transition away from copper. That will require the FCC to pull their heads out of their asses and add usage caps to their list of benchmarks. CAF money should not go to 25/3 service with 10-22 GB monthly usage limits. That’s fine for mobile, although as T-Mobile is trying to point out, even while on the go, people want to watch video. But for fixed service, what AT&T considers “unlimited” which is 22 GB per month actually represents 2 hours at 25M, which is a totally realistic calculation since the justification for 25M is aggregate household video streaming, not bursty traffic. Now you are throttled for the remaining 718 hours in the month. If fixed wireless is going to be the rural broadband solution instead of fiber, and also let the rural telcos abandon POTS and DSL, then usage limits can’t be the same as mobile wireless. From: Gino Villarini Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 10:23 AM To: Animal Farm Subject: [AFMUG] Nokia enters Fixed LTE http://networks.nokia.com/portfolio/solutions/fastmile-solution#tab-benefits some competition to Telrad
