Re: [isp-wireless] 2155-2180 MHz spectrum anyone?

["Stuart Pierce" <spierce@...>]

What are they smokin up there on the hill anyway ? Smoking has nearly been banned in every state almost everywhere except home, so I imagine they are breaking the law. The boys with the most money will get the free spectrum and there will be a clause that after so many years, they can charge for the free broadband. The government never gives anything away for free without a catch to the citizens of the US, ever.


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Daniel Mullen <daniel.mullen@....ca>
Reply-To: isp-wireless@isp-wireless.com
Date:  Sat, 24 May 2008 03:36:18 +0200

>Spectrum for free, maybe, if you can roll out 
>nation wide. Would this not be a great time to 
>talk about a national cooperative bid by the WISP 
>industry to get its own spectrum, at ZERO cost 
>and to be on a level playing field of sorts 
>against the biggest telecom operations in the country?
>
>From: http://www.rcrnews.com
>
>FCC may auction another 25 MHz of spectrum
>‘AWS III’ licensee could be required to provide free service
>
>
>By Jeffrey Silva
>Story posted: May 23, 2008 - 2:40 pm EDT
>
>Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin 
>Martin scheduled a vote on rules for another 
>major spectrum auction, one that would encompass 
>25 megahertz in the 2155-2180 MHz advanced 
>wireless services band and require the winning 
>bidder to offer free broadband service under an aggressive build-out schedule.
>
>“We’ve had a variety of proposals that had come 
>into the commission originally where some people 
>wanted us to give them the spectrum,” said Martin 
>in a briefing with reporters. The FCC chief said 
>a vote may be held at the agency’s upcoming June 
>12 meeting, but added it is possible the measure 
>could be approved before that date.
>
>Martin said that a licensee of the 2155-2180 MHz 
>spectrum (referred to as the AWS III band) would 
>have to provide a free service tier, and would 
>have to reach 50% of the population in four years 
>and 95% of the population by the end of the license term.
>
>Martin also said the agency will initiate a 
>separate rulemaking on what to do with other AWS frequencies.
>
>The FCC earlier this year auctioned 62 megahertz 
>of 700 MHz spectrum, raising almost $20 billion.
>
>It is unclear whether the FCC would hold the AWS 
>III auction later this year, and if that auction 
>will affect the agency’s plans to re-auction of 
>the 700 MHz D Block. The D Block — whose rules 
>currently call for a public safety-private sector 
>partnership via a national license — was not 
>claimed in the 700 MHz auction because no bidder 
>met the $1.3 billion reserve price.
>
>Interestingly, Martin’s plans for the AWS III 
>spectrum draw on the free wireless broadband 
>access proposal first advocated by M2Z Networks 
>Inc. The FCC dismissed M2Z’s application for 
>spectrum, and the company subsequently challenged 
>the FCC ruling in federal appeals court.
>
>Meantime, Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and 
>Christopher Cannon (R-Utah) are pushing a bill to 
>foster deployment of a national, family-friendly 
>wireless broadband network with open access. 
>Their bill envisions one auction of airwaves in 
>the 2155-2180 MHz band and another auction 
>involving yet-to-be-determined spectrum below 3 GHz.
>
>The mobile phone industry generally opposes 
>conditions on spectrum auctioned by the FCC.
>
>




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