All are very good points.
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
