Travis Johnson wrote:
John,
This is just my opinion, but I seriously doubt the FCC is just going
to "give" away 700MHz licenses, even on a per base station basis.
I never said they should "give" it to us. I said they should have base
station sized auctions. They can include an opening bid amount. They
always do.
And the WISP community is not going to spend even $5,000 per license
if they could.
I would spend $20K+ per base station license. I am not kidding. I would
do it in a heartbeat because I could make it back in one year alone from
not having to tell people NO when we could not get them signal.
The cell companies will be bidding, and once again it will be in the
millions of dollars per region.
It is like farm ground. We are the farmers. None of us can farm if we
have to buy a million square acres of ground to farm. It is not fair. It
is exactly the same correlation and the FCC needs to hear it. (And
understand it which is a big stretch for them)
Honestly, what would you do if you were the FCC? Deal with hundreds or
thousands of little operators at $5,000 per license, or sell 3 or 4
licenses for the entire US for millions of dollars?
It is NOT about what is easier for them. It is a matter of what is best
for the country. Enabling thousands of new bustling and growing
entrepreneurs to build local wireless communication broadband companies
is the smartest thing they could do which is why they will not do it.
Scriv
Travis
Microserv
John Scrivner wrote:
Apparently there is a meeting scheduled today, April 25, at the FCC
over how the 700 MHz band is going to be split up for auction. It
amazes me how we can be kept in the dark about these meetings. If
anyone can tell me how to get included on announcements of such
meetings I need to know about it. This really angers me that we are
not there with some representation today. If anyone reads this who is
near the DC area please go to this meeting and tell them we need
spectrum to be made available on a base station license basis. They
need to auction off individual base station licenses or reserve some
for a flat fee so all of us can compete. If they do not then hundreds
if not thousands of operators who are now serving rural broadband
will not be able to compete. This is an anti-competitive problem that
the FCC needs to address with this auction. This is a big deal. If we
do not get some 700 MHz or similar sub- 1 GHz spectrum it is going to
be very bad for us all.
Scriv
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