No more MMDS fixed wireless networks?

Robert E. Seastrom rs at seastrom.com
Thu Oct 4 15:07:07 UTC 2001



<vijay>it does not scale</vijay>


Curtis Maurand <curtis at lamere.net> writes:

> There are an awful lot of small ISP's out there doing fixed wireless and
> making a bit of money at it.  They're not doing MMDS, they're doing 802.11
> and just getting it done.  Better yet, they have no recurring loop costs
> to contend with.  That Nokia rooftop system looks pretty cool from where I
> sit.
> 
> Curtis Maurand
> System Administrator
> lamere.net powered by Prexar
> 
> *** My opinions are not those of my employer. ***
> 
> 
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Bora Akyol wrote:
> 
> >
> > If they actually did this, it is about time they finally woke up and
> > smelled the coffee.
> >
> > There is pretty much no way any wireless (or free space optical)
> > technology is going to compete with wireline (including FTH) in an area
> > where there is abundant infrastructure. The capacity in  fixed wireless
> > technologies even with the latest advances in technology including MIMO
> > antenna arrays, CDMA etc is just not there. When you start talking
> > mobile wireless data delivery, the price/performance ratio changes
> > making wireless delivery of information profitable provided that you
> > don't pay XXX billion dollars for bandwidth. Another alternative is
> > using fixed wireless in areas without infrastructure including
> > continents other than North America.
> >
> > I once participated in a similar analysis for another broadband fixed
> > wireless delivery network and the capacity to support enough subscribers
> > such that the scheme broke even was simply unsupportable in the spectrum
> > that was allocated for the system given the power and antenna size
> > restrictions.
> >
> > Bora Akyol
> >
> > On Wednesday, October 3, 2001, at 04:36 , Christopher J. Wolff wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hello folks,
> > >
> > > I heard today that Sprint is ready to capitulate to the FCC and
> > > reassign the
> > > radio spectrum it occupies in most major markets (MMDS) to mobile
> > > use.  I
> > > guess they will be shutting off the Sprint Broadband Internet product
> > > in 30
> > > days.  Can anyone corroborate this?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Christopher J. Wolff, VP, CIO
> > > Broadband Laboratories, Inc.
> > > http://www.bblabs.com
> > > email:chris at bblabs.com
> > > phone:520.622.4338 x234
> > >
> >
> 
> -- 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Curtis Maurand		     System Administrator
> lamere.net Powered by Prexar http://www.lamere.net
> mailto:curtis at lamere.net     Linux, OS/2, Windows (any flavor)
> http://www.prexar.com	     Cisco, OpenRoute, Lucent
>                              MySQL, SQL Server, PHP, Perl
> ------------------------------------------------------------



More information about the NANOG mailing list