Alltell is a part of Verizon Wireless. I agree they couldn't do it everywhere, but not much of the country isn't under Verizon or AT&T control (before Verizon's sale to Frontier).
If it's internal, that's still a dumb reason, though completely believable. It's doubtful the towers are running out of PtMP capacity. There's what, 20 radios on a tower? 3 megs each, that's 60 megs per tower. I'd be surprised if a tower has more than a few T-1s ran to it. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "David E. Smith" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:38 AM To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WISPA] OT - Text Messages > On Tue, September 29, 2009 10:07 am, Mike Hammett wrote: >> I don't understand how Verizon and AT&T have problems with capacity on >> their >> cell networks. They own the copper and fiber in the ground all over >> hell. >> They have GigE fiber services. It just doesn't make sense. > > There's only one ILEC in most places. In an area where AT&T is the ILEC, > they could (in theory) run fiber between their towers, but a few miles out > of their territory, where Verizon or someone else is the ILEC, they'd have > to start running wireless backhauls between towers anyway. Either that, or > pay someone else for access to their copper/fiber. > > There also could be corporate bureaucracy where AT&T (the cell phone > company) is a different business unit from AT&T (the ILEC), and due to > internal billing, it still may be less expensive for AT&T (the cell phone > company) to do it themselves rather than pay AT&T (the ILEC) for all that > copper and fiber. > > Other things that pop into mind: > * Some of the capacity is probably last-mile, having too many phones > talking to one cell tower (sound familiar, WISPs?) > * There are cell phone companies not affiliated with an ILEC anywhere (I > don't think Alltel or T-Mobile have any ILEC connections in the US) > * There are spots with small ILECs like Frontier where nobody could use > anything in the ground without digging their own trenches or paying for it > * There are smaller markets where the ILECs have copper but no fiber (I'm > in one of those) > > This may be a bunch of nonsense but it sounds plausible. (Anyone here have > cell experience who can chime in with actual useful information?) > > David Smith > MVN.net > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > 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: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
