Yes, a typical tactic for the sole purpose to destroy the RF environment, and scare high ARPU businesses and investors from trusting third party unlicensed wireless providers solutions. Its all about fear factor. But Just like any other large scale MUNI network, it wont work, and will be to costly to maintain, and the bad press will incourage the Cable Cos to shut down the networks instead of continueing to damage their brand's reputation as a quality high speed resildential provider. They can plan to deploy 10,000 nodes, but planning has no value if there is no where to put/mount them. Maybe they could mount them inside people's homes :-) Surely, they aren't going to work mounted on their tiny green 2ft pedestals on every corner. Surely, they aren't going to pay landlords $200/month each to mount on 10,000 commercial building roofs. What they more likely would do is go put in Wifi access points into the communities that they do not want to dig up the streets and bring cable to, that the City/states are trying to force them to do with cable, leveraging the franchise agreement renegotiations. A attitude like, get off my back, why spend $5000 to dig, when I can spend $200 on an access point and pretend we serve everyone, and make it a play on all the lobbying WISPs did to say, "wireless is good enough" for WISPs, so it must also be good enough for Cable Cos. I could easilly see Comcast applying for USF, and using Wireless combined with Cable.
>Time Warner is planning I believe around 10,000 node in the LA market this >year and after they get that market proven, they plan on rolling out >nationwide in their markets Except the market wont be proven successful. Funny how history repeats itself. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Webster To: 'WISPA General List' ; [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ericsson is buying BelAir, betting on Wi-Fi It's not just the cellular industry. Comcast is deploying 18,000 outdoor wi-fi nodes this year and giving that service for free to their customers to keep them happy in a mobile environment and reduce churn. Time Warner is planning I believe around 10,000 node in the LA market this year and after they get that market proven, they plan on rolling out nationwide in their markets. The networks are specifically being designed for tablets and wi-fi enabled phones in a nomadic but not seamless mobile environment. Being that the cable companies who sold spectrum to Verizon for 3.5 billion dollars, they are using some of that money for these deployments. For those in those metro markets, these carriers are planning both 2.4 and 5 GHz dual mode radios. Thank You, Brian Webster www.wirelessmapping.com www.Broadband-Mapping.com From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jack Unger Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 12:00 PM To: "[email protected]" w; WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Ericsson is buying BelAir, betting on Wi-Fi In a sure sign that the cellular industry is getting serious about Wi-Fi, telecom networking giant Ericsson is buying BelAir Networks, adding its high-performance outdoor hotspot technology to its portfolio, sources told GigaOM. The deal could signal a big shift in the mindset of the big wireless vendors, which have always favored their own specialized and expensive cellular technologies to meet growing mobile data demand rather than more generic but much cheaper Wi-Fi tech... <http://gigaom.com/broadband/ericsson-pursuing-wi-fi-with-belair-networks-buy/> -- Jack Unger - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc.Author (2003) - "Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks"Serving the WISP Community since 1993www.ask-wi.com 818-227-4220 [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
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