>From my conversations with VzB, folks, they understand it to be closer to the latter, with VzW doing the actual build, on infrastructure such as backhaul and towers from "partners".
But I could be wrong. Don't take your organs to heaven, heaven knows we need them down here! Be an organ donor, sign your donor card today. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 7:46 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Verizon LTE >I am curious as to what this brings to the table and how the > relationship actually is. > > Does the rural company build their own network, but with VZ's spectrum > and brand of gear, then allowing full roaming? > > or > > Is this just a glorified contractor setup where the rural company is > building VZ's network, but already has the towers\backhaul in place? > > The latter looks more attractive than the former. LTE gear probably > isn't cheap, so who's going to buy it? If we're just glorified > installation crews, then maybe it isn't so bad. > > I'm not terribly concerned about 4G network in my territory as I can > quite easily build a faster fixed network. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
