Cellular systems in urban areas are built for capacity. Thats why you have so many low level sites, frequency reuse. Capacity rules king.
In rural areas, coverage rules. That is why they use a lot of intellirepeater sites, that actually work off close existing sites, with very minimal capacity. Often limited to one outdoor cabinet and 3 panels. (and in some cases a mag mount antenna on the cabinet for the donor site to be able to talk to it) Capacity of varying sites changes also on a network. While one site may have X capacity with X transcievers, the one 5 miles away, same network, may have twice that number. They may look alike from the outside, but the equipment inside is different TOE. 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: "Charles Wu" <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 10:31 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Verizon wants a piece of our pie >I have a dissenting opinion... > >>It all comes down to a simple economics in the end. Who can most cost >>effectively provide broadband. > > A cellular network is built for coverage > > Additionally, large companies, from a scale and operations perspective, > will tend to put the same equipment everywhere > > What that means is in order to offer the nationwide network, that the > tower in the rural area that's required to cover that stretch of highway > where there's only a town of 1,000 people will have the same equipment and > capacity as the tower in downtown Chicago that has 1,000 simultaneous > users > > So in rural areas, where the costs of the tower, backhaul and base station > have already been amortized and paid for to fulfill their coverage > requirements, but many of these towers are sitting at 5-10% capacity > > In their mind, to add another 100 or so fixed wireless users off an AP and > putting them in a lower QoS bucket (so the primary mobile customers aren't > affected when fixed customers start slamming Netflix) is "found money" -- > self installs are quite nice when putting out +60 dBi EIRP at the tower > with 700 MHz on licensed spectrum with zero noise floor > > -Charles / -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
