Fred, I think its always better to kill the virus before it catches on and becomes a plague. The real question is would Fiber Tower support WISPA's stance if they had no benefit. Probably not.
Not to be a pig but if it can all be unlicensed I would love that. -B- Fred Goldstein wrote: > At 9/14/2010 02:11 PM, Jack Unger wrote: > >> FiberTower (and the mobile broadband industry) has been and still >> is fighting hard to LICENSE 36-MHz wide chunks of TV White Space. >> WISPA has been and is continuing to fight back hard against the >> FiberTower Group proposal. If FiberTower is successful, will be >> able to blow big holes through the TVWS spectrum that would have >> been available for WISPs to use. This is a "fight to the death" for >> TVWS. We are continuing waging to wage this fight as we speak and >> we will continue fighting right up to (and if need be, beyond) the >> 9/23 FCC Open Meeting. >> > > Jack, reading their latest ex parte, it looked as if they were > specifically targeting areas with many vacant channels, and asking to > use only a subset of them for high-powered backhaul > applications. Would this be detrimental to the WISP community? If > it really were limited such that unlicensed or lightly-licensed (Part > 90 nonexclusive) white space had priority in areas with very few > channels, then I don't see the harm in their proposal. Indeed it > could be useful for the WISP community too, if (and only if) > non-exclusive, as it would allow us to build high-powered backhaul > links too. A Part 101-type path licensing regime would also allow that. > > This might be a more practical compromise position, no? > > -- > Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com > ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ > +1 617 795 2701 > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
