A WISP could also offer these speeds and raise the price for this plan to account for the total number of regular speed clients they might lose due to capacity issues with the higher speed plan. Nowhere do the rules state that you have to offer those speeds at any given price.
Thank You, Brian Webster www.wirelessmapping.com www.Broadband-Mapping.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Webster Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 3:27 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] FCC Connect America Fund -- It's Baaaackkkk! The rule as it stands now is 3 meg down and 768 up. The 4 meg down and 1 meg up was something put in the National Broadband Plan by the white house team. Problem with that is the National Broadband Map (of which was already spec'd out when they wrote that plan) uses download speed tier breakouts of 3 and 6 meg and 768 and 1.5 meg. There will be no way to actually compute the 4 meg 1 meg rule unless they change the national broadband map AND they get all carriers to revise their reporting. The rule is not really 4 meg and 1 meg either, it's an aggregate to 5 meg, you could be doing 3 meg down and 2 up and meet the standard. Remember that is currently just your advertised maximum download and upload speed. Not all of your customers have to subscribe to that. A WISP even using 900 MHz could limit those plans to say only 1 to 5% of the customers on an AP and technically still be within the rules. Thank You, Brian Webster www.wirelessmapping.com www.Broadband-Mapping.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fred Goldstein Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 11:59 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] FCC Connect America Fund -- It's Baaaackkkk! At 11/30/2012 11:45 AM, Matt wrote: > > approach is used, you could comment that raising it from 768/200 to > > 4/1 is excessive, and perhaps say a 1.5/384 standard is more > > appropriate. Even Canopy 100 can probably claim that (if it's not loaded), though YMMV. > >Are you saying no one is providing service past 1.5/384 with Canopy 100? I'm referring to the 900 MHz version with a 4 Mbps one-way burst rate. That won't pass the 4/1 test. -- Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ +1 617 795 2701 _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
