Personally, I wouldn’t even consider investing this amount of money in 900mhz any longer.
Perhaps you should take a look at LTE? > On Nov 30, 2017, at 9:17 AM, Kurt Fankhauser <lists.wavel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So I have 2% of my customer base that is running 900mhz PMP100 using 11 > different access points. I am trying to cost justify weather it is feasible > to upgrade them to PMP450i-900mhz. I am using a lot of Omni's with the PMP100 > so most likely I will need twice as many AP's as I currently have because > they won't all be on the same side of the towers. So looking at costs I see > the following: > > PMP450i AP's x 20 = $46,000 > 900mhz sectors x 20 = $6,320 > PMP450 SM x 20 = $4,784 > SM antenna x 20 = $1,424 > > equipment cost total = $58,528 > plus my time of putting it all up > > I am currently grossing $934.00/month from the 2% of customers running on the > PMP100-900mhz now. > > At this rate it would take 5 years to break even on deploying the 450i-900mhz > and I really can't offer any better speeds with it than what I was able to > offer with the old FSK 2.4/5ghz stuff. > > Is it just me or does this not make sense worth deploying?
