Interesting reading... http://www.glgroup.com/News/what-the-fcc-white-space-ruling-means-for-wireless-isps-51089.html
----- Original message ----- From: "David Farber" <[email protected]> To: "ip" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:53:50 -0400 Subject: [IP] What the FCC White Space Ruling means for Wireless ISPs Begin forwarded message: From: Dewayne Hendricks <[email protected]> Date: October 20, 2010 2:27:04 PM EDT To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <[email protected]> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] What the FCC White Space Ruling means for Wireless ISPs Reply-To: [email protected] What the FCC White Space Ruling means for Wireless ISPs October 20, 2010 Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor <http://www.glgroup.com/News/what-the-fcc-white-space-ruling-means-for-wireless-isps-51089.html> Summary The FCC announced recently that it is opening up the vacant TV airwaves (“white space”) – the frequencies between 300 MHz and 400 MHz) for unlicensed use. This article addresses the market space for this spectrum if used to deploy broadband. Analysis The big problem that White Space (WS) devices solve for aspiring Wireless ISPs (WISPs), is installation. Presently the WISP business is a mashup of the cellular carrier and satellite TV businesses. You have to acquire and backhaul to Access Point (AP) mounting locations just like the cellular carriers. Wi-Fi’s range is limited so you need outdoor client devices (customer premises equipment or CPE) on roof tops. Wires have to run from the CPE through walls to get bandwidth to the customer, just like the dish and set top box for satellite. This requires capital expenditure, operating expenses, labor, and training and lengthens the payback time until a new customer becomes profitable if you bury the cost of all this into the service pricing. WS devices when they exist should be customer installed, which relieves the WISP of a huge burden. The first forms of WS CPE devices will probably be WS to Wi-Fi protocol converters, another type of MiFi-like device. As Tom Evslin describes in detail, the potential for innovation and increased performance for WS is an exciting prospect. [snip] Dewayne-Net RSS Feed: <http://www.warpspeed.com/wordpress> ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/125289-b24677a5 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=125289&id_secret=125289-891acde9 Unsubscribe Now: https://www.listbox.com/unsubscribe/?member_id=125289&id_secret=125289-633e3ef1 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com _______________________________________________ SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List To unsubscribe, please visit: http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org
