I could see $5k per license (depending on the terms of the license) to be a
good deal for WISPs. The amount of frequency we get, power levels, etc. all
play in to the cost effectiveness of the license.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Travis Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Open Meeting on 700 MHz
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. And the
WISP community is not going to spend even $5,000 per license if they
could. The cell companies will be bidding, and once again it will be in
the millions of dollars per region.
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?
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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