[Tfug] Sprint wireless broadband

[johngalt1]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Bernstein" <mikeb at simplybits.com>
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Sprint wireless broadband


> If anyone in TFUG was caught by the short notice that
> Sprint Broadband is discontinuing service in Tucson, this
> might help:

Short notice? I have eight weeks to get Cox cable or Qwest
DSL installed and functional.

> http://www.lifeaftersprint.com

Nice advertisement. This is good for Tucson only, right?.
It's too bad simply bits does not appear to be positioned to
address the numerous locations Sprint BBD was deployed
nationwide. Or are they using that website to refer
potential customers to other Canopy platform providers?

> We found the comment about this being forced by the FCC
> pretty amusing as well.

While we are mentioning amusing marketing BS, those radio
commercials some provider airs make me chuckle. You know the
ones, where they purport to say broadband utilizing
antiquated wires is inferior to fixed wireless broadband.
(wires are only good for catching fish and stuff.)

Tell that to the customer who had a deployment quickly fail
because the installer tried a shot between two trees which
changed geometry later. You'd think they might have heard
about the fresnel effect. Oh well, substitute a higher gain
antenna and boost the elevation. That will be OK until the
trees grow more.

In five years from now, WiMax will be seriously under
deployment and Qwest's Fiber to home offering may be
available.

Where will fixed wireless be then? What is the future for
it?

John


>
> MikeB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org]
> On Behalf Of johngalt1
> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 11:55 AM
> To: Tucson Free Unix Group
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Sprint wireless broadband
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Hess" <runenfool>
> To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Sprint wireless broadband
>
>
>> My knowledge is very out of date (circa 99) but my
>> experience was just
>> that the technology didn't scale very well and was hard
>> to
>> get running
>> properly - so you had to send out a lot of trucks on site
>> to get
>> things working correctly.  The lagginess and general
>> issues that
>> people faced didn't show up in testing because it didn't
>> tend to be
>> very bad until you had users on the system.
>>
>> The older service where you had a modem or isdn (t1 etc)
>> line for the
>> upload was much more stable.
>>
>> The owners of People's Choice sure got a great deal
>> though - I think
>> Sprint paid about 10 dollars a share for a company that
>> was selling at
>> 15 cents a share a couple months earlier.
>
> I seem to recall that when Sprint bought out People's
> Choice
> TV, there was speculation that they were collecting
> spectrum
> and FCC licenses for some future technology application
> other than Sprint Broadband MMDS.
> About MMDS:
> http://www.rysavy.com/Articles/MMDS/MMDS.htm
>
>
>>
>> Tony
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Ryan Cresawn <jrcresawn>
>> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:45 PM, John Gruenenfelder
>>> <johng> wrote:
>>>> I've tried Googling for news about this, but "Sprint
>>>> wireless broadband" just
>>>> gives hits on things like EVDO service.  I guess I
>>>> don't
>>>> know the specific
>>>> name for the radio wireless service.
>>>
>>> It might be Sprint Broadband Direct.
>>>
>>> http://www.sprintbroadband.com/
>>>
>>> Sprint is probably phasing out that service.  I have
>>> tested it before
>>> and found it to be very poor with high lag and slow
>>> transfers.  My
>>> tests revealed that the transfer rate was about 50% of
>>> Verizon's EVDO
>>> service through a PCMCIA card.  I suspect that they want
>>> to begin
>>> pushing their upcoming WiMax service named Xohm.
>>>
>>> http://www.xohm.com/
>
> This sounds like an excellent theory. MMDS services
> occupied
> 2.1 and 2.5-2.7 Ghz bands
> http://www.sprintbroadband.com/press_releases/0710-Spectrum.html
>
> There definitely looks to be some overlap in the spectrum
> allocation.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX
>
>
>
> What I don't particularly care for is that Sprint BBD
> blames
> cancelling of their service on the FCC
>>From Matthew's link:
>
>>As the result of a recent FCC action, Sprint will no
>>longer
>>have access to the spectrum used to operate our Sprint
>>Broadband Direct Service in your area. Due to this FCC
>>mandate, Sprint will discontinue your service by...(in my
>>case, 7/31/2008)
>
> To me, that statement sounds bogus. This may prove true
> especially if we come to find out that Sprint initiated
> the
> process upon which the FCC action resulted.
>
> Johnny
>
>>>
>>> Ryan
>>>
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