I hardly think WIMax is a joke. I agree WiMax is no better substitution than What WISPs are already doing. I'd rathewr have the higher throughput and lower cost of unlicenced proprietary gear. But it is no joke. Expecially not for those few players that do have legitimate Licensed spectrum. WiMax in 2.5G sets the reality of clear strong competiton, for unlicensed WISPs.
I do believe that US Wimax with limited 3.6G spectrum (more or less unlicensed), really isn't a threat to WISPs, but it is clearly away to add more spectrum for competition. What it means is that WISPs that controled the marketwith first in advantage, now have the potential for more competition. The trade off is the new entrants will have to pay more for less as the cost to enter the market. (3.6 less spectrum, WImAx gear more expensive). But WISPs that are serious about protecting their position in the market will likely want to explore 3.6 to its max benefit, beofre their competitors do. For example in Rural America, qty 3 5-10Mhz channels is huge. In Urban America its hard to risk deployign 360 with 100% of the spectrum. What happens when interference kills a sector, you are done. But in Rural, the chance of interference is not nearly as likely. I think this is what the Digital Bridges of the world are realizing. a Small channel is good enough to build a business model on, when going after second-third tier markets. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marlon K. Schafer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 11:39 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Future > Well Mike, the way I see it is that the sky has been falling my entire > time > as an ISP (over a decade now). > > WiMax is still a joke in the market place. > > 3G is too slow and too expensive. > > 700 is not deployed in any level that matters and doesn't look like it > will > be any time soon. > > Cable is in trouble because they are dying under the load of the high end > users they they keep getting. They need all of the capacity they can come > up with for HDTV channels but broadband is taking up too much space on the > coax. They also JUST put in their networks. The big companies aren't > structured to reinvest in new hardware every few years. I'd say that they > will continue to grow and continue to piss off their base. I'm not > worried > about cable. > > As for AT&T and Verizon? People already hate the service and prices they > have, so far I can sell against them. > > Fiber is cool, I have FTTH customers. But man is it expensive! There's > just no way to ever make the investment back at today's pricing levels. > marlon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Hammett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "WISPA List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 5:44 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 >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.1 - Release Date: 3/26/2008 > 12:00 AM > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
