One point you need to remember Travis is that that "barely 1 mbps" you
are getting is with a self-install CPE that was either mailed to you or
you picked in a retail shop, correct? If so, you likely had it up and
running in under 5 minutes and they did not have to roll a truck.
Chances are, you can also take that CPE anywhere with you around town
and it will connect. You can also pop out the SIM card and pop in into
any other Alvarion self-install CPE in town and your specific services
will pop right up.
That 1 mbps you are getting through your wall is certainly better than
any neighboring fixed outdoor 900 MHz Canopy connection in both average
up and down steam that I have seen and it uses a smaller channel AND
goes through your wall AND required no truck roll (unless you are one of
those that have an outdoor CPE).
Patrick Leary
AVP, Market Development
Alvarion, Inc.
o: 650.314.2628
c: 760.580.0080
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
Behalf Of Travis Johnson
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 8:55 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Future
Regardless... my point is they have invested $40M and I am offering
higher speeds, for less money, with less cost per CPE and AP... and I
have 10x the coverage they do in my market.
The GM even mentioned "and if Sprint or Clearwire were to come to town
with a check, we would definitely look at it"... which means, once
again, they are not in it for the long haul... and their customer
service, and quality of service, will show that the longer they are in
business. They are looking for the "buyout" to take their money (and
profit) and run.
Travis
Microserv
Patrick Leary wrote:
Actually, most of that $40M would have been for spectrum acquisition,
which in the accounting world is marked as an asset. They also
constructed a major NOC center. The wireless hardware is a small
minority of the spending.
Patrick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
On
Behalf Of Travis Johnson
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 6:36 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Future
Hi,
A new player just came to my area... BridgeMaxx (a Digital Bridge
company). They are using Alvarion WiMax equipment. We have a test
radio
that we play with. We have their "up to 3meg premium service" and we
barely get 1meg (any time we have tested over the last 3 months).
Here's the real kicker... they will have spent $40 million dollars to
roll out 15 cities (this is direct from their GM to me). She was
pretty
proud of herself with that statement. So that's $2.6 million per
city...
and I'm talking some cities with 15,000 population (their biggest had
120,000).
Travis
Microserv
Chuck McCown - 2 wrote:
WiMAX was dead, is dead and will remain dead. OK, not factually true
but
emotionally true. The cell companies will use WiMax frequencies and
technologies but they will be a premium service and not well suited to
compete with us for point to multi point fixed wireless. It will
never
live
up to the hype.
All the cell data technologies will remain premium for folks on the
go.
Cell does not want to squander the bandwidth to go after the value
driven
customer that love us so much. Cell is and will not be value leader
for
fixed wireless. technologies.
700 MHz is just not going to be used for anything other than more cell
spectrum. The bands are narrow. Good for phone and limited amounts
of
data. Great propagation. Problem with 700 MHz is that the size of the
antenna will be problematic for really small cell phones. Less gain
than
the current 900 and 1800 antennas for the same physical sizes. Also
there
will be a few years of implementation due to moving some existing TV
stations. And some of them are not moving for some reason. I don't
know if
they get a special dispensation or what.
All ILECs will continue to build out with fiber to the home. That
will
erode market share for WISPs in some areas. This is a slow and
capital
intensive process so no reason to get jumpy on that. Plus many folks
prefer
to deal with us vs a large public traded company. Superior customer
service
and support will always retain the customer.
The cable companies will continue to shoot themselves in the foot and
drop
the balls. They are sooo freaked out by the erosion of customer base
from
DirecTV that they are not managing the IP side of the house as well as
they
could. They will continue to get in a tighter and tighter cash
situation
from satellite TV pressing from one side and the ILEC FTTH (and us)
from
the
other.
In the meantime, we add VOIP, computer repair, data backup, web
development,
OTA HDTV install and maint, etc as cross sell and up sell
opportunities.
All of us can offer triple play if we team up with DirecTV or OTA
HDTV.
OTA
HDTV is a wonderful opportunity for the next 18 months for the value
conscious customer. Stock UHF TV antennas and converter boxes and
help
folks get their analog TVs converted over. Less work than a WISP
install
and you will lock in the customer even more with superior customer
service.
You can rent them the gear for $5/month and make it a low cost
package.
In 5 years hopefully your investment will be a cash cow and you will
ride
this horse until it dies. Perhaps other technologies will come along
for us
to deploy but I see our segment strong for the next 5 years. In 10
years,
if we have not diversified, we will probably be hurting.
Oh, and satellite ISP will never do much. Pesky physics.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Hammett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA List" <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 6:44 PM
Subject: [WISPA] Future
What do you see as the future of our industry over the next 5
years?
AT&T is expanding U-Verse (will this be available outside of
town?)
Verizon is expanding FiOS (will this be available outside of
town?)
Cable will be using DOCSIS 3
3G will gain more steam
WiMAX will have larger and larger shares of the market
700 MHz will be in use possibly for data communications by the
big guys
My banker asked me, so I figured I'd see what other's opinions
are.
My thought is that the big guys mentioned above will continue to
avoid the
niche that we currently serve and we'll be able to provide
better services
with more spectrum (5.4 GHz, additional 2.5 GHz, 3.6 GHz,
possibly TV
white spaces) and WiMAX.
----------
Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
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