I'd originally written:
The preponderence of NexTel channels are in the private land mobile
806-821/850-865 conventional / trunking band, and a small percentage in the
902-906 trunking band.
...
I am most likely off on the numeric band
I sure was [numerically off - that is]. What's known as the '900' trunking
band runs from 896-902. I was only correct that it is *below* the 900 ISM
band, and that it is only 12.5kHz channelized.
rwf wrote:
Just so we all know where you are coming from and in the interest of Full
Disclosure, please tell us your involvement in the
Dialcall/Nextel/Motorola/IDEN endeavor- specifically any vested interest
in
the technology (hint- Patents).
Concerned that I might be some company shill? No need. I'd be happy to
provide full disclosure. I left Moto about 4 yrs ago. I did some of the
original work on Motorola's FCC comments to FleetCall's waiver request back
in 92, but never worked in iDEN development. None of my patents are
specific to iDEN technology, but I'd be flattered if you had looked them up.
I've no vested interest in any of them anyway (all patents rights while
employed at Moto are assigned to Moto, not the inventors). I've no vested
interest in NexTel. As close as I get is my neighbor is a NexTel employee
in sales ... does that count? Personally, I never liked or used NexTel
service based on poor coverage / quality where I needed service. Hey, terms
like '800' MHz, '900' MHz are *not one allocation*. Being from the radio
manufacturing industry I'm acutely aware of how many different allocations
are within these ranges. That's all, I just trying to be helpful in
pointing out where the NexTel 900 trunking you mentioned is in relation to
900 MHz unlicensed ISM. And that I know that the iDEN served orders or
magnitude more customers for NexTel than the original SMR license holders
ever had, as FleetCall's original petition for waiver had correctly claimed.
And that it's public knowledge where NexTel's new developments are targeted
to other bands in conjunction with Sprint.
chill,
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "rwf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'WISPA General List'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 2:24 AM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] Sprint / Nextel to use 900mz for iDen
Rich-
Just so we all know where you are coming from and in the interest of Full
Disclosure, please tell us your involvement in the
Dialcall/Nextel/Motorola/IDEN endeavor- specifically any vested interest
in
the technology (hint- Patents).
-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Sprint / Nextel to use 900mz for iDen
I don't know what the beef is. FleetCall bought up in the vicinity of 100
trunking & SMR channels in each major metro almost 20 yrs ago. They
claimed
to the FCC that they could serve significantly more users than the typical
100 users/channel of the current early 90s analog technology. 100
channels
at 100 users apiece serves only in the vicinity of 10,000 users. With the
iDen technology they ultimately served almost half a million in the same
geographic area with the same spectrum. So much for the "unneeded
technology" assessment.
Now that they're called NexTel, sure they continue adding whatever
remaining
licenses they can get their hands on, but the 800 and 900 Trunking and
bands
are land-locked (no room for expansion), so there's no new technology
targeted to this band that I know of. Now that they're merged with
Sprint,
it's no secret where their new technology is targeted (WiMAX).
Rich
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