Did they only do DAS in your stadium? Or, did they also do 802.11 there and/or other places?
We have a DAS system in our stadium that AT&T and Verizon jointly funded. It
seems to be doing fairly well. They share a rather small room for their
head-end stuff. It's interesting to see the differences between the equipment
used by these two carriers.
-jcw
[cid:[email protected]]
John Watters The University of Alabama
Office of Information Technology
205-348-3992
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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] DAS Wireless
University of Tennessee Knoxville entered into such an agreement.
Their interest was to cover the Stadium. It's done, and it seems to work well.
There are many providers of such service, and UTK used a competitive bidding.
Two things that I can remember from that agreement:
-Once the initial contract is signed (revenue sharing, infrastructure, etc...),
it takes also a long time to sign a contract with each carrier
that will join the shared infrastructure.
-Also, the late Dewitt Latimer was always warning campuses:
If carriers are interested in one particular location of your campus (because
they can reach other interesting locations from there), make sure
to negotiate a complete coverage, don't allow a partial one that is only in the
interest of the carrier!
Be ready for many back and forth between the two legal department!
Philippe Hanset
www.eduroam.us<http://www.eduroam.us>
On Feb 10, 2014, at 11:22 AM, Ray DeJean <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
All,
We've been approached by wireless company to install a DAS (distributed antenna
system) throughout our campus. They would then market the system to local
carriers, which would increase their coverage (we have pretty poor AT&T service
on campus). There would be revenue sharing and they've offered to assist in
expanding our 802.11 coverage as well.
Just wondering if anyone else has entered into a similar agreement with a
wireless company, and how it's working out for you.
thanks,
Ray
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Ray DeJean
Systems Engineer
Southeastern Louisiana University
email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
http://r-a-y.org<http://r-a-y.org/>
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