Hello Patrick, Recent govternment enquiry here basically came to the same conclusion... and as spectrum is freed up from analog TV channels, they are suggesting it be reused into rural data communications, we have a slightly worst situation then the US in that the population outside metro and semi metro areas is very sparse...
They tried to auction off 3G spectrum here cheaply and royally screwed themselves because they jumped the gun after auctions elsewhere were raking in a fortune... The times they are a changing, what to should prove very interesting indeed... I can't wait for UWB and space time encoding to become viable... but that's another kettle of fish altogether :) although the guys playing with 70Ghz and treating it as a form of light and using things like LED's looked interesting as well... There will be no doubt a lot of people playing in the higher freq's in the years to come due to the sheer amount of spectrum available... bring it on :) -- Best regards, evilbunny mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cacert.org - Free Security Certificates http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 5:00:41 PM, you wrote: PL> It is fascinating to realize that in the U.S. the rise of WISPs is both a PL> success (albeit unintentional) and failure of spectrum policy. The failure PL> is the property model that allowed mostly 2 companies (Sprint and WorldCom) PL> to acquire about 60% of all MMDS allocations. This aggregation left them PL> laden with debt at a time when the technology of bi-directional wireless was PL> insufficient for them to build a viable model. As well, from a vendor PL> standpoint, it reduced the motivation to build for the band. If you put all PL> your eggs in the basket of trying to win one of the 2, then lost, you were PL> in deep caca. Even if you won, you were still in deep caca in that they PL> would comprise too much of a vendor's business enabling the carrier to hold PL> the business essentially hostage. This was demonstrated by the demises of PL> the late Hybrid (Sprint's for BWA vendor) and Vyyo (WorldCom's vendor of PL> choice). PL> The resulting failures in the U.S. of the first gen licensed attempts left a PL> void in most every market outside the greater metro areas. Into that void PL> stepped the WISPs using unlicensed bands with equipment made by the vendors PL> innovating under the allowances created by Part 15. PL> This irony can be seen to be further extended upon analysis of the fiasco of PL> 3G vs. the rise of Wi-Fi. PL> So this has all thusfar been a crazy symbiotic relationship of contrary PL> spectrum policy, and it has been fascinating to behold. PL> Patrick J. Leary PL> Chief Evangelist, Alvarion, Inc. PL> Executive Committee Member, WCA/LEA PL> [EMAIL PROTECTED] PL> Ph: 760.494.4717 PL> Cell: 770.331.5849 PL> Fax: 509.479.2374
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