I think couldn't disagree with you more. Failure to work toward the
future and be able to compete head-to-head with both the cable and the
telco industry will spell doom for the wireless industry. I think that
it is about time that people here stop making excuses for why wireless
can't compete and start working on making it happen. I fail to see why,
other than the failure to have the desire to do so, the wireless
industry can not compete with wireline service if the proper resources
were put into developing the technologies to do so at an affordable cost.
I'm not sure just where you get the idea that cable has basically
infinite spectrum available, because that isn't the case. And why is it
that spectrum is the limiting factor? So we should stop looking for more
advanced technology that can push more bandwidth over existing spectrum
levels (or perhaps less).
I just fail to understand why it is that people that have a "we can't do
that" attitude are in a high tech industry that has seen things happen
that only a few years ago seemed impossible. Who in 1983 when IBM
released their first PC running at 4.77MHz ever thought that we would
now have machines running at 3GHz. Maybe if people spent less time
yapping about what we can't do and working on making the allegedly
impossible become reality (think Tomas Edison here) then maybe we would
get someplace.
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 06:25:31AM -0400, Ken DiPietro wrote:
If we allow Comcast five years to actually implement this technology (to
pick a number) what will we have to meet this? They have the money and
the network infrastructure to handle this while we would be looking at a
forklift replacement - if that were economically feasible. In order for
the WISP industry to be able to meet this challenge we will need to
demand that our suppliers start to design and manufacture this equipment
right now, in earnest if we are ever to become anything more than a
footnote in the history to deploy connectivity.
It would seem a shame to have had so much potential and have wasted it
because we couldn't read the handwriting so clearly painted on the wall.
Conversely, if we claim we are an industry that is focused on providing
broadband to areas that are not covered by the cable companies or the
ILECs it would seem that we will be creating and maintaining the next
generation of the digital divide, one that I like to think of as the
multimedia divide(tm).
The battle of the "haves" and the "have nots" continues in earnest.
Doom and gloom as usual. If you think you can compete with cable companies
on bandwidth you're headed for bankruptcy. We have a limited amount of
spectrum (even if you go licensed), they have ~1ghz of usable spectrum
on their wired system (including spectrum needed for TV channels).
"Sectorizing" for them means finding the right spot to splice a piece of
coax, then run a second line back to their headend. (with zero
interference and immediate bandwidth gains)
Stop trying to compete against companies on points you have no chance
of beating them on. Quality of service, customer support, and
"value added services" are your only hope.
Want to whine about it? Go install your own cable infrastructure.
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