From steve@strohpub.com Wed Jan 5 14:12:51 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j05KCpLZ022794 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:12:51 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.114.140.153 Received: from [192.168.1.28] (pia140-153.pioneernet.net [66.114.140.153]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j05KCpDL022790 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:12:51 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net From: Steve Stroh (legacy) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 12:23:50 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Subject: [bwia_posting] test posting to list #1 Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: --- Steve Stroh Editor, FOCUS On Broadband Wireless Internet Access Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog - www.bwianews.com 425-939-0076 | Skype: stevestroh2 | steve@stevestroh.net | www.stevestroh.com From steve@strohpub.com Wed Jan 5 14:32:52 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j05KWqPZ023841 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:32:52 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.114.140.153 Received: from [192.168.1.28] (pia140-153.pioneernet.net [66.114.140.153]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j05KWpDL023837 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:32:52 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <8142DF3F-5F5A-11D9-A856-000A95D35C46@strohpub.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net From: Steve Stroh (legacy) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 12:43:50 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Subject: [bwia_posting] test2 Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: test 2 --- Steve Stroh Editor, FOCUS On Broadband Wireless Internet Access Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog - www.bwianews.com 425-939-0076 | Skype: stevestroh2 | steve@stevestroh.net | www.stevestroh.com From wa7nwp@jnos.org Wed Jan 5 14:38:03 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j05Kc3q0024405 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:38:03 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.98.186.45 Received: from geo (srv01.compumont.com [66.98.186.45]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id j05Kc2DL024401 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:38:02 -0600 Message-ID: <003501c4f367$fe1e5bc0$c27ea8c0@vodall.com> From: "Bill Vodall" To: References: Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 12:49:03 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Subject: [bwia_posting] My post #1 Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: test test Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:23 PM Subject: [bwia_posting] test posting to list #1 From steve@stevestroh.net Wed Jan 5 15:42:12 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j05LgC7g027246 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:42:12 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.114.140.153 Received: from [192.168.1.28] (pia140-153.pioneernet.net [66.114.140.153]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j05LgBDL027242 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:42:12 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <30E39FF6-5F64-11D9-A856-000A95D35C46@stevestroh.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net From: Steve Stroh Subject: Test of bwia_posting mailing list Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:53:10 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: You're receiving this message because you are subscribed to the bwia_posting mailing list. 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Thanks, steve --- Steve Stroh Editor, FOCUS On Broadband Wireless Internet Access Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog - www.bwianews.com 425-939-0076 | Skype: stevestroh2 | steve@stevestroh.net | www.stevestroh.com From steve@stevestroh.net Tue Jan 11 16:58:38 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0BMwcl0016416 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:58:38 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.114.140.153 Received: from [192.168.1.28] (pia140-153.pioneernet.net [66.114.140.153]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0BMwbDL016412 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:58:37 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net From: Steve Stroh Subject: [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] Administrivia - Back To Writing About BWIA (Here) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:10:03 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by stevestroh.net id j0BMwcl0016416 Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: (Catch-up Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog Posting Notification, 1 of 10) From: Steve Stroh Date: January 1, 2005 01:40:02 PST To: steve@stevestroh.net Subject: [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] Administrivia - Back To Writing About BWIA (Here) As of January 1, 2005, I will resume writing about Broadband Wireless Internet Access on this venue, Broadband Wireless Internet Access. For most of 2004, I wrote about Broadband Wireless Internet Access on Corante. Writing there was an interesting experience and a worthwhile experiment, which is now at an end. During December, 2004 I have re-posted here all articles that I have previous posted - on Radio Userland, strohpub.com, and Corante. Because this format is so useful as a chronological reference, I will "backdate post" articles of significant events in 2004 (and perhaps earlier) for which I did not post an article at the time. Backdated entries made after January 1, 2005 will be noted in the change log posting that, as it is updated, its date will be made current so that readers will be aware of it. Notification Mailing List I am considering the development of an email mailing list to notify readers of new postings to Broadband Wireless Internet Access. This will be a semi-manual process as this capability isn't native to Blogger and doesn't seem to be available as an add-on. If you are interested in being added to a Broadband Wireless Internet Access Mailing List, please send me an email message using this link: BWIA New Posting Notification Mailing List. Future (?) Features for Broadband Wireless Internet Access I have previously used Radio Userland (lost a lot of writing with it), Microsoft Word (produces really terrible HTML), Movable Type (heavily customized), and Blogger. Of all of them, I find Blogger to now the overall best environment for posting online articles. It has many of the capabilities which were lacking in other environments such as "post by email" and spell-checking, and excellent WYSIWYG/HTML editor, and especially important to me, Blogger works well with Macs and the FireFox browser. In short, Blogger is more than good enough, and in re-posting so many articles, I put its stability and ability to protect text that is in preparation to a good test. That Blogger is currently available for use for free is of little import to me - if I had to pay to use it, I would do so happily. That said, there are a few things that Blogger lacks, that I will attempt to add: • Slightly better "presentation"; I hate the orange "header", but I picked it for the layout and it appears to be a delicate operation (to my untrained eyes) to change only the color scheme • Better RSS Feeds (not sure if RSS is still needed, or Atom is now sufficient) • Statistics / Visitors tracking • Trackbacks • Integration with aggregators such as Technorati • Graphics! I finally figured out how to do graphics without excessive pain, and so you can expect lots of graphics on articles in 2005 No Comments Section Based on my observations of how badly other comment systems are abused (and not just the spamming, but posting of uninformed (terribly so, at times) comments, I'll likely continue to not offer a comments section. I'll make it clear that feedback is encouraged and appreciated, but mostly of the "Letters To The Editor" basis, which I may, or may not, choose to reprint and reply to as a new article or an update to a previously posted article. 2005 - Year of WiMAX... 2005 will be the most formative year for Broadband Wireless Internet Access since I began writing about the subject in April, 1997 in my Wireless Data Developments column in Boardwatch Magazine. Many of the developments in 2005 will relate to the WiMAX systems being finally certified and beginning production. WiMAX is the "glamour" story of Broadband Wireless, and the majority of press and analysts won't bother to look beyond WiMAX. Advertising on Broadband Wireless Internet Access In addition to Google Adsense ads, I plan to solicit "direct" advertising on Broadband Wireless Internet Access to help to reliably cover my base expenses - hosting, Internet connectivity, telephony (Skype is great, but...), and rent for my small office. If your company is directly related to Broadband Wireless Internet Access and you'd like to advertise where readers look specifically for information on Broadband Wireless Internet Access, please email me. But non-WiMAX May Be Bigger But, the bigger story in 2005 will be the parallel development and deployment of non-WiMAX systems that will often exceed the performance and cost-effectiveness of WiMAX systems. Technologies such as: • Cognitive / Huerestic techniques to automatically avoid interference with incumbent systems such as television broadcasting • Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) (mandatory for 5.250 - 5.350 GHz and 5.470 - 5.725 GHz • "Smart" / Phased Array Antenna Systems • Dynamic Wireless Mesh Networks • Mobile Broadband • Public Broadband Wireless Internet Access Infrastructure Using Wi-Fi Clients (Wi-Fi HotSpots / HotZones) • Very robust modulation techniques - FHSS, PPM, BFSK • Other modulation techniques such as DOCSIS for "wireless cable modems" • And others and spectrum such as: • License-exempt sharing of television broadcast spectrum • 700 MHz • 902-928 MHz (US and Canada) • 2.40 - 2.4835 GHz • 5.250 - 5.350 GHz (mid-UNII band) • 5.470 - 5.725 GHz (proposed additional 255 MHz in US) • 24 GHz • 60 GHz • 70-80-90 GHz are not (yet) addressed by WiMAX's plans to focus system profiles to use OFDM modulation, operating in the 3.5 GHz licensed (non-US), 5.8 GHz license-exempt, and 2.5 GHz licensed bands, in that order. FOCUS On Broadband Wireless Internet Access As in years past, my primary outlet for in-depth discussion of Broadband Wireless Internet Access technology, vendors, service providers, and industry developments will be in my newsletter, FOCUS On Broadband Wireless Internet Access. In addition to completing the final year of FOCUS as a subscription newsletter, I plan to complete and release my book (possibly books) on Broadband Wireless Internet Access, and re-post all my previously written material on Broadband Wireless Internet Access (that weren't works for hire and thus owned by the client) with the exception of 2004 and 2005 issues of FOCUS (which I will re-post in 2006). I plan to continue to co-host Wireless Tech Radio, whose coverage of the wireless industry will be more important than ever in 2005. Coming Attractions In 2005 I will begin an exciting project that will meld the best aspects of FOCUS and Wireless Tech Radio - details to follow in the near future - thank you Dewayne, Jim, and Esme for the inspiration and encouragement in this new and exciting venture. Steve Stroh Copyright © 2005 by Steve Stroh. -- Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 1/1/2005 01:30:29 AM --- From steve@stevestroh.net Tue Jan 11 17:00:25 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0BN0PDI016514 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:00:25 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.114.140.153 Received: from [192.168.1.28] (pia140-153.pioneernet.net [66.114.140.153]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0BN0PDL016510 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:00:25 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Message-Id: <2CE50332-6426-11D9-9616-000A95D35C46@stevestroh.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net From: Steve Stroh Subject: [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] Administrivia - Guiding Philosophy Of Broadband Wireless Internet Access Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:11:50 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by stevestroh.net id j0BN0PDI016514 Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: (Catch-up Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog Posting Notification, 2 of 10) The well-known author Don Lancaster wrote A Final Thought (from memory, it was in Don's amazing book Incredible Secret Money Machine II), and it beautifully reflects my philosophy of writing on the subject of Broadband Wireless Internet Access. Steve Stroh A Final Thought Many years ago, I was attending a folk concert. The opening act was a single flute player, performing in front of the closed stage curtains. His job was to warm up the audience for the high priced help to follow. He was good. Very good. But as he went along, the music started getting strange and ultimately downright weird. He started playing chords on his flute, along with notes having unbelievable tonal structures. Eventually, the music had turned into bunches of impossible sounding and god-awful squawks. Almost all of the audience got bored and restless as the music seemed to deteriorate. Just then, I happened to notice the friend beside me who had played in and had taught concert band. He was on the edge of his chair with his mouth open. He turned to me and, speaking very slowly, said simply “You can’t do that with a flute.” Of the thousands of people in the audience, at most only five realized they were now witnessing a once-in-a-lifetime performance involving the absolute mastery of a very difficult musical instrument. To pretty near everyone else, it just sounded like a bunch of god-awful squawks. Always play for those five. -- Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 1/1/2005 07:00:48 AM --- From steve@stevestroh.net Tue Jan 11 17:02:25 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0BN2PI5016686 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:02:25 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.114.140.153 Received: from [192.168.1.28] (pia140-153.pioneernet.net [66.114.140.153]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0BN2ODL016680 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:02:24 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Message-Id: <709FE79C-6426-11D9-9616-000A95D35C46@stevestroh.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net From: Steve Stroh Subject: [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] Arraycomm Tutorial On Smart Antenna Systems Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:13:44 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by stevestroh.net id j0BN2PI5016686 Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: (Catch-up Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog Posting Notification, 3 of 10) David Isenberg pointed out what looks like a good overall tutorial on "Smart" (adaptive, dynamic array, beam-forming) antenna systems, at the International Engineering Consortium (IEC), written by ArrayComm. ArrayComm is in an excellent position to write such a tutorial. Their IntelliCell antenna system is well proven in the cellular industry, and in Broadband Wireless Internet Access with its iBurst system. Steve Stroh Copyright © 2005 by Steve Stroh. -- Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 1/1/2005 07:52:43 AM --- From steve@stevestroh.net Tue Jan 11 17:10:15 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0BNAFPd016964 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:10:15 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.114.140.153 Received: from [192.168.1.28] (pia140-153.pioneernet.net [66.114.140.153]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0BNAEDL016959 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:10:14 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Message-Id: <86658F50-6427-11D9-9616-000A95D35C46@stevestroh.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-8-476955375 From: Steve Stroh Subject: [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] Wireless Relief Being Organized for Tsunami-impacted Areas Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:21:30 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: --Apple-Mail-8-476955375 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed (Catch-up Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog Posting=20 Notification, 4 of 10) =46rom my reading and contacts, I'm aware of four distinct efforts=20 underway for Communications-related relief for the tsunami-impacted=20 areas of Southern Asia. #1 - Post-Tsunami Reconnect Mike Outmesguine, as Chairman of the Southern California Wireless Users=20= Group (SOCALWUG), is organizing individuals and companies that would=20 like to offer Broadband Wireless equipment, expertise, and support for=20= the areas impacted by the recent earthquake and tsunami in Southern=20 Asia. Links are for an initial posting on what Mike calls Post-Tsunami=20= Reconnect, and a 12/31/04 Progress Report. Outmesguine's contact information is mike@transstellar.com and=20 telephony 1-818-889-9445 ext. 102. To date, smartBridges has pledged a donation of equipment to=20 Post-Tsunami Reconnect. Thanks to Glenn Fleishman, Wi-Fi Networking News, for the pointer to=20 Outmesguine's efforts. #2 - Relevant information from the isp-wireless mailing list: (begin isp-wireless posting 1) From: Taufik_mh@uii.net.id Subject: Re: [isp-wireless] Tsunami Date: December 30, 2004 04:17:58 PST To: isp-wireless@isp-wireless.com Dear all, The Indonesian Information Technology (IT) community wishes to=20 facilitate the relief efforts to our brothers and sisters in Aceh=20 (Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, NAD), North Sumatra and other affected parts=20= of the Indian Ocean which were badly hit by this disaster. http://www.airputih.or.id This community is supported by APJII (Indonesia Internet Service=20 Provider Association), FTII (Indonesian Information Technology=20 Federation), IndoWLI ( Indonesia Wireless LAN Internet Association),=20 etc. Contact information : Deputy Coordinator 1: Ahmad Khalil Alkazimy (HP: +62-813-1608-5757=20 email:ahmad@apjii.or.id, YIM : ahmadkaz) Internasional Affairs Advisor: Idris Sulaiman (HP: +62-811-11-1312=20 email:idriss@indo.net.id) Thank for all people who participate , contribute and help. Taufik (end isp-wireless posting 1) (begin isp-wireless posting 2) From: peggy@townsendconsulting.net Subject: [isp-wireless] Tsunami relief Date: December 31, 2004 07:38:00 PST To: isp-wireless@isp-wireless.com I have had a response from the the individuals listed at this website: http://www.airputih.or.id/en/ I am listing there equipment needs below. INITIAL LIST OF REQUIRED EQUIPMENT NEED FOR THE IT-MEDIA CENTERS: - Electronic Generator Set, batteries AA-size rechargeable for Handy=20 Talky VHF and the battery chargers (60 rechargable batteries and the=20 battery packs) - Additional Handy Talkies (5-10 units) - 5-10 Notebook and Geographic Positioning System (Compas, Altimeter,=20 Barometer) - Cable RG8 VHF (for transmission radio/HT) minimal 30 meter and its=20 connectors - Power supply minimal 30A, 12 volt DC - Repeater VHF with duplexer and antena omni directional high gain=20 (standard) - VSWR meter VHF/UHF - HT VHF duplex mode and tone control - antena HT mobile/for cars VHF and bracket + cable - a pair of GHDSL modem (point to point mode) - Converter DC to AC 300 - 500 watt - Complete VSAT unit (ODU, IDU) with 2.4 m antena either DVB RCS or SCPC - 2 - 5 pairs of wireless 2.4 ghz units complete with omni antenaes and=20= parabolic grid and mounting plus cables, connectors, power over=20 Ethernet dll. including outdoor box with amplifier (0,5 - 1 watt) Please send equipment to: Indonesia Information Technology and ISP Association (IITF - APJII)=20 Office Cyber Building 11th floor, Jl. Kuningan Barat No 8, Jakarta Selatan 12710 Indonesia Phone: +62-2-5296 0634, Fax +62-21-5296 0635, email: info@apjii.or.id Peggy (end isp-wireless posting 2) #3 - Wireless Communications Association International (WCA) Convenes=20 Meeting on January 13, 2005 To Discuss Communications Assistance to=20 Tsunami-impacted Areas In Souther Asia (begin WCA Press Release) For Immediate Release Contact: Olga Ranaweera Email: olga@wcai.com 1333 H Street, NW Suite 700 West Washington, D.C. 20005 tel: 202-452-7823; fax: 202-452-0041 website: www.wcai.com WCA Organizes Relief Effort For South Asia Disaster & Wireless=20 Infrastructure Needs At Jan. 13 Meeting WASHINGTON, DC (Dec. 29, 2004) =96 In response to the devastating=20 earthquake and corresponding tsunamis in South Asia, the Wireless=20 Communications Association International (WCA) announced organizational=20= efforts within the wireless broadband industry leading to a meeting on=20= Jan. 13 during WCA=92s annual International Symposium and Business Expo=20= in San Jose, CA. The Jan. 13 meeting will foster industry efforts on immediate disaster=20= relief, both monetary and in vitally needed equipment for First=20 Responders. Participants also will help plan for longer-term=20 infrastructure needs especially suited to the emerging capabilities of=20= wireless broadband. The Hon. Devinda Subasinghe, Sri Lanka=92s Ambassador to the United=20 States, commented on WCA=92s goal: The Embassy of Sri Lanka looks forward to working with WCA and its=20 member companies on this critical initiative, which will support relief=20= efforts and have a long-term impact on rehabilitation of the areas=20 devastated by this natural disaster. The government of Sri Lanka will=20 be examining the capabilities of wireless companies, both with=20 gratitude and with understanding of our long-term infrastructure needs. With a growing regional death toll now estimated at 80,000+, the 9.0=20 earthquake originating offshore near Sumatra in Indonesia created=20 powerful tsunamis that devastated also shorefront areas of Sri Lanka,=20 India, Thailand, Malaysia and the Maldives, and as far away as Africa=92s=20= East Coast. This produced one of the world=92s worst recent natural=20 disasters. The island nation of Sri Lanka is one of the worst-afflicted=20= countries, with over 23,000 killed and 1.5 million left homeless. More=20= than 45,000 so far are reported dead in Indonesia in this unprecedented=20= tragedy. WCA=92s meeting will leverage WCA members=92 expertise into short-term = and=20 long-term relief. Short-term, industry leaders will organize a task=20 force to raise money and to coordinate equipment donations for=20 effective emergency deployment. Also, the task force will plan=20 longer-term infrastructure advisory services for the region, building=20 upon ongoing work within WCA=92s Wireless Broadband Public Safety Task=20= Force. It convenes bi-weekly conference calls, and is preparing a =93Best=20= Practices=94 guide helping First Responders increase their capabilities=20= for challenges ranging from emergency warnings to critical post-event=20 communications. =93Fast-response is exactly what both the public and its leaders = expect=20 from the wireless broadband industry,=94 commented WCA President Andrew=20= Kreig. =93This relief effort after the tragedy in South Asia is a = logical=20 outgrowth of the industry=92s post-9/11 responses. Industry members were=20= able then promptly to provide vital help for New York City and=20 Washington, DC. Since then, an especially strong industry priority has=20= been to foster advanced technologies that can help First Responders and=20= underserved communities worldwide.=94 WCA=92s South Asia disaster organizational breakfast on Jan. 13 is at = 7=20 a.m. at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, and is open to any interested=20 potential volunteer and the press. For planning purposes, non-WCA=20 members should RSVP to WCA=92s Olga Ranaweera (olga@wcai.com), who can=20= provide also a VIP pass to the convention. (end WCA Press Release) #4 - Amateur Radio Involved In Emergency Communications For=20 Tsunami-impacted Areas In Southern Asia As could be expected, Amateur Radio Operators in the affected areas=20 were able to provide emergency communications. The ARRL is a primary=20 source of general information on Amateur Radio in the USA. Indian Ham Radio Team Heads To Disaster Scene (Common Sense Technology) Asian Radio Amateurs Bridging Communication Gap following Tsunami=20 (ARRL) Amateur Radio "Saved Lives" in South Asia (ARRL) Winlink 2000 Helping with Southern Asia Disaster Communications (ARRL) Nineteen mentions in Google News search for "Amateur Radio" and Tsunami Some Groups That Potentially May Assist In Re-establishing=20 Communications Infrastructure In Tsunami-impacted Areas Of Southern=20 Asia "CommGeeks Without Borders" In an 2002 article I mentioned "CommGeeks Without Borders", and my=20 memory is that the mission of the group is a good fit for the=20 communications needs of the tsunami-impacted areas. Unfortunately the=20 link in that article no longer works, and I was unable to find any=20 other reference to this group. Any help would be appreciated. Engineers Without Borders / Ing=E9nieurs Sans Fronti=E8res Reading the various Engineers Without Borders sites, the=20 organization(s) provide long term development assistance and are not=20 organized for, nor are attempting to, provide immediate services in the=20= Tsunami-impacted areas. Given their overall mission, it see seems likely that they will be involved in longer-term communications=20 restoration projects. Engineers Without Borders International Engineers Without Borders USA Engineers Without Borders Canada Geeks Without Borders No mention of Tsunami Relief... or much information at all, but from=20 what little I can glean, Geeks Without Borders would seem to be an=20 organization that might potentially become involved in communications=20 work in the tsunami-impacted areas. Partners In Technology International While there is no mention at present on the PACTEC web page of a=20 specific response to the recent tsunami in Southern Asia, Partners In=20 Technology (PACTEC) is an international organization that provides=20 aviation and communications support (including impressive capabilities=20= with satellite communications) to non-governmental agencies and=20 organizations in developing and disaster areas. PACTEC's capabilities=20 are obviously a good fit for communications needs of the=20 tsunami-impacted areas. Volunteers In Technical Assistance (VITA) Like Engineers Without Borders, the primary mission of Volunteers In=20 Technical Assistance (VITA) is long term projects. There was no=20 specific mention of tsunami relief on the VITA web page. Steve Stroh Copyright =A9 2005 by Steve Stroh, except for identified excerpts from=20= other sources. -- Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 1/1/2005=20= 01:40:28 PM --- --Apple-Mail-8-476955375 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=WINDOWS-1252 (Catch-up Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog Posting Notification, 4 of 10) =46rom my reading and contacts, I'm aware of four distinct efforts underway for Communications-related relief for the tsunami-impacted areas of Southern Asia. #1 - Post-Tsunami Reconnect=20 0000,0000,EEEEMike Outmesguine, as Chairman of the 0000,0000,EEEESouthern California Wireless Users Group (SOCALWUG), is organizing individuals and companies that would like to offer Broadband Wireless equipment, expertise, and support for the areas impacted by the recent earthquake and tsunami in Southern Asia. Links are for an initial posting on what Mike calls 0000,0000,EEEEPost-Tsunami Reconnect, and a 0000,0000,EEEE12/31/04 Progress Report.=20 Outmesguine's contact information is 0000,0000,EEEEmike@transstellar.com and telephony 1-818-889-9445 ext. 102.=20 To date, 0000,0000,EEEEsmartBridges has pledged a donation of equipment to Post-Tsunami Reconnect.=20 Thanks to 0000,0000,EEEEGlenn Fleishman, Wi-Fi Networking News, for the pointer to Outmesguine's efforts.=20 #2 - Relevant information from the 0000,0000,EEEEisp-wireless mailing list:=20 (begin isp-wireless posting 1)=20 HelveticaFrom: Taufik_mh@uii.net.id=20 HelveticaSubject: Re: [isp-wireless] Tsunami=20 HelveticaDate: December 30, 2004 04:17:58 PST=20 HelveticaTo: isp-wireless@isp-wireless.com=20 HelveticaDear all,=20 HelveticaThe Indonesian Information Technology (IT) community wishes to facilitate the relief efforts to our brothers and sisters in Aceh (Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, NAD), North Sumatra and other affected parts of the Indian Ocean which were badly hit by this disaster.=20 = Helveticahttp://www.airputih.or.id=20 HelveticaThis community is supported by APJII (Indonesia Internet Service Provider Association), FTII (Indonesian Information Technology Federation), IndoWLI ( Indonesia Wireless LAN Internet Association), etc.=20 HelveticaContact information :=20 HelveticaDeputy Coordinator 1: Ahmad Khalil Alkazimy (HP: +62-813-1608-5757 email:ahmad@apjii.or.id, YIM : ahmadkaz)=20 HelveticaInternasional Affairs Advisor: Idris Sulaiman (HP: +62-811-11-1312 email:idriss@indo.net.id)=20 HelveticaThank for all people who participate , contribute and help.=20 HelveticaTaufik=20= (end isp-wireless posting 1)=20 (begin isp-wireless posting 2)=20 HelveticaFrom: peggy@townsendconsulting.net=20 HelveticaSubject: [isp-wireless] Tsunami relief=20 HelveticaDate: December 31, 2004 07:38:00 PST=20 HelveticaTo: isp-wireless@isp-wireless.com=20 HelveticaI have had a response from the the individuals listed at this website:=20 = Helvetica0000,0000,EEEEhttp://www.airputih.or.id/en/ HelveticaI am listing there equipment needs below.=20 HelveticaINITIAL LIST OF REQUIRED EQUIPMENT NEED FOR THE IT-MEDIA CENTERS:=20 Helvetica- Electronic Generator Set, batteries AA-size rechargeable for Handy Talky VHF and the battery chargers (60 rechargable batteries and the battery packs)=20 Helvetica- Additional Handy Talkies (5-10 units)=20 Helvetica- 5-10 Notebook and Geographic Positioning System (Compas, Altimeter, Barometer)=20 Helvetica- Cable RG8 VHF (for transmission radio/HT) minimal 30 meter and its connectors=20 Helvetica- Power supply minimal 30A, 12 volt DC=20 Helvetica- Repeater VHF with duplexer and antena omni directional high gain (standard)=20 Helvetica- VSWR meter VHF/UHF=20 Helvetica- HT VHF duplex mode and tone control=20 Helvetica- antena HT mobile/for cars VHF and bracket + cable=20 Helvetica- a pair of GHDSL modem (point to point mode)=20 Helvetica- Converter DC to AC 300 - 500 watt=20 Helvetica- Complete VSAT unit (ODU, IDU) with 2.4 m antena either DVB RCS or SCPC=20 Helvetica- 2 - 5 pairs of wireless 2.4 ghz units complete with omni antenaes and parabolic grid and mounting plus cables, connectors, power over Ethernet dll. including outdoor box with amplifier (0,5 - 1 watt)=20 HelveticaPlease send equipment to:=20 HelveticaIndonesia Information Technology and ISP Association (IITF - APJII) Office=20 HelveticaCyber Building 11th floor, Jl. Kuningan Barat No 8, Jakarta Selatan Helvetica12710 Indonesia=20 HelveticaPhone: +62-2-5296 0634, Fax +62-21-5296 0635, email: info@apjii.or.id=20 HelveticaPeggy=20= (end isp-wireless posting 2)=20 #3 - Wireless Communications Association International (WCA) Convenes Meeting on January 13, 2005 To Discuss Communications Assistance to Tsunami-impacted Areas In Souther Asia=20 (begin WCA Press Release)=20 For Immediate Release=20 Contact: Olga Ranaweera=20 Email: olga@wcai.com 1333 H Street, NW Suite 700 West=20 Washington, D.C. 20005 tel: 202-452-7823; fax: 202-452-0041=20 website: www.wcai.com WCA Organizes Relief Effort For South Asia Disaster & Wireless Infrastructure Needs At Jan. 13 Meeting=20 WASHINGTON, DC (Dec. 29, 2004) =96 In response to the devastating earthquake and corresponding tsunamis in South Asia, the Wireless Communications Association International (WCA) announced organizational efforts within the wireless broadband industry leading to a meeting on Jan. 13 during WCA=92s annual International Symposium and Business Expo in San Jose, CA.=20 The Jan. 13 meeting will foster industry efforts on immediate disaster relief, both monetary and in vitally needed equipment for First Responders. Participants also will help plan for longer-term infrastructure needs especially suited to the emerging capabilities of wireless broadband. The Hon. Devinda Subasinghe, Sri Lanka=92s Ambassador to the United States, commented on WCA=92s goal:=20 HelveticaThe Embassy of Sri Lanka looks forward to working with WCA and its member companies on this critical initiative, which will support relief efforts and have a long-term impact on rehabilitation of the areas devastated by this natural disaster. The government of Sri Lanka will be examining the capabilities of wireless companies, both with gratitude and with understanding of our long-term infrastructure needs.=20 With a growing regional death toll now estimated at 80,000+, the 9.0 earthquake originating offshore near Sumatra in Indonesia created powerful tsunamis that devastated also shorefront areas of Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Malaysia and the Maldives, and as far away as Africa=92s East Coast. This produced one of the world=92s worst recent natural disasters. The island nation of Sri Lanka is one of the worst-afflicted countries, with over 23,000 killed and 1.5 million left homeless. More than 45,000 so far are reported dead in Indonesia in this unprecedented tragedy.=20 WCA=92s meeting will leverage WCA members=92 expertise into short-term = and long-term relief. Short-term, industry leaders will organize a task force to raise money and to coordinate equipment donations for effective emergency deployment. Also, the task force will plan longer-term infrastructure advisory services for the region, building upon ongoing work within WCA=92s Wireless Broadband Public Safety Task Force. It convenes bi-weekly conference calls, and is preparing a =93Best Practices=94 guide helping First Responders increase their capabilities for challenges ranging from emergency warnings to critical post-event communications. =93Fast-response is exactly what both the public and its leaders expect from the wireless broadband industry,=94 commented WCA President Andrew Kreig. =93This relief effort after the tragedy in South Asia is a logical outgrowth of the industry=92s post-9/11 responses. Industry members were able then promptly to provide vital help for New York City and Washington, DC. Since then, an especially strong industry priority has been to foster advanced technologies that can help First Responders and underserved communities worldwide.=94 WCA=92s South Asia disaster organizational breakfast on Jan. 13 is at 7 a.m. at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, and is open to any interested potential volunteer and the press. For planning purposes, non-WCA members should RSVP to WCA=92s Olga Ranaweera (olga@wcai.com), who can provide also a VIP pass to the convention. (end WCA Press Release)=20 #4 - Amateur Radio Involved In Emergency Communications For Tsunami-impacted Areas In Southern Asia=20 As could be expected, Amateur Radio Operators in the affected areas were able to provide emergency communications. The 0000,0000,EEEEARRL is a primary source of general information on Amateur Radio in the USA.=20 0000,0000,EEEEIndian Ham Radio Team Heads To Disaster Scene (0000,0000,EEEECommon Sense Technology)=20 0000,0000,EEEEAsian Radio Amateurs Bridging Communication Gap following Tsunami (ARRL)=20 0000,0000,EEEEAmateur Radio "Saved Lives" in South Asia (ARRL)=20 0000,0000,EEEEWinlink 2000 Helping with Southern Asia Disaster Communications (ARRL)=20 0000,0000,EEEENineteen mentions in Google News search for "Amateur Radio" and Tsunami=20 Some Groups That = HelveticaPotentially May Assist In Re-establishing Communications Infrastructure In Tsunami-impacted Areas Of Southern Asia=20 "CommGeeks Without Borders"=20 In an 0000,0000,EEEE2002 article I mentioned "CommGeeks Without Borders", and my memory is that the mission of the group is a good fit for the communications needs of the tsunami-impacted areas. Unfortunately the link in that article no longer works, and I was unable to find any other reference to this group. Any help would be appreciated. Engineers Without Borders / Ing=E9nieurs Sans Fronti=E8res=20= Reading the various Engineers Without Borders sites, the organization(s) provide long term development assistance and are not organized for, nor are attempting to, provide immediate services in the Tsunami-impacted areas. Given their overall mission, it see=20 seems likely that they will be involved in longer-term communications restoration projects.=20 0000,0000,EEEEEngineers Without Borders International=20 0000,0000,EEEEEngineers Without Borders USA=20 0000,0000,EEEEEngineers Without Borders Canada=20 Geeks Without Borders=20 No mention of Tsunami Relief... or much information at all, but from what little I can glean, 0000,0000,EEEEGeeks Without Borders would seem to be an organization that might potentially become involved in communications work in the tsunami-impacted areas.=20 Partners In Technology International=20 While there is no mention at present on the PACTEC web page of a specific response to the recent tsunami in Southern Asia, 0000,0000,EEEEPartners In Technology (PACTEC) is an international organization that provides aviation and communications support (including impressive capabilities with satellite communications) to non-governmental agencies and organizations in developing and disaster areas. PACTEC's capabilities are obviously a good fit for communications needs of the tsunami-impacted areas.=20 Volunteers In Technical Assistance (VITA)=20 Like Engineers Without Borders, the primary mission of 0000,0000,EEEEVolunteers In Technical Assistance (VITA) is long term projects. There was no specific mention of tsunami relief on the VITA web page.=20 Steve Stroh Copyright =A9 2005 by Steve Stroh, except for identified excerpts from other sources.=20 -- 8080,8080,8080Posted by Steve Stroh to 0000,0000,EEEEBroadband Wireless Internet Access8080,8080,8080 at 1/1/2005 01:40:28 PM=20 --- --Apple-Mail-8-476955375-- From steve@stevestroh.net Tue Jan 11 17:12:20 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0BNCKSV017072 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:12:20 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.114.140.153 Received: from [192.168.1.28] (pia140-153.pioneernet.net [66.114.140.153]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0BNBRDM016992 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:12:20 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Message-Id: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-10-477093173 From: Steve Stroh Subject: [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] BWIA Related Conferences Q1 2005 - Updated 2005-01-03 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:23:48 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: --Apple-Mail-10-477093173 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed (Catch-up Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog Posting=20 Notification, 6 of 10) January 5-7, 2005 - Phoenix, Arizona USA - National Telecommunications=20= Cooperative Association (NTCA) 2005 IOC Wireless Symposium January 6-9, 2005 - Las Vegas, Nevada USA - Consumer Electronics=20 Association (CEA) Consumer Electronics Show (CES) January 10-12, 2005 - San Jose, California USA - Part-15.Org How to Run=20= a Profitable Small WISP January 13, 2005 - San Jose, California USA - Wireless Communications=20 Association International (WCA) Relief Effort For South Asia Disaster &=20= Wireless Infrastructure Needs Meeting January 11-14, 2005 - San Jose, California USA - Wireless=20 Communications Association International (WCA) International Symposium=20= & Business Expo. I hope to attend this conference. January 19-21, 2005 - Denver, Colorado USA - Electro-comm Distributing=20= EC Expo February 17-18, 2005 - Chicago, Illinois USA - Wireless Internet=20 Service Providers Network Operators Group (WISPNOG) Conference March 14-16, 2005 - New Orleans, Louisiana USA - CTIA Wireless 2005 Steve Stroh Copyright =A9 2005 by Steve Stroh -- Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 1/3/2005=20= 10:28:00 AM --- --Apple-Mail-10-477093173 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=ISO-8859-1 (Catch-up Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog Posting Notification, 6 of 10) January 5-7, 2005 - Phoenix, Arizona USA - = Helvetica0000,0000,EEEENational Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA) = 0000,0000,EEEE2005 IOC Wireless Symposium=20 January 6-9, 2005 - Las Vegas, Nevada USA - = Helvetica0000,0000,EEEEConsumer Electronics Association (CEA) 0000,0000,EEEEConsumer Electronics Show (CES)=20 January 10-12, 2005 - San Jose, California USA - = HelveticaFFFF,FFFF,FFFFPart-15.Org 0000,0000,EEEEHow to Run a Profitable Small WISP=20 January 13, 2005 - San Jose, California USA - = Helvetica0000,0000,EEEEWireless Communications Association International (WCA) = 0000,0000,EEEERelief Effort For South Asia Disaster & Wireless Infrastructure Needs Meeting=20 January 11-14, 2005 - San Jose, California USA - = Helvetica0000,0000,EEEEWireless Communications Association International (WCA) = 0000,0000,EEEEInternational Symposium & Business Expo. I hope to attend this conference. January 19-21, 2005 - Denver, Colorado USA - = Helvetica0000,0000,EEEEElectro-comm Distributing 0000,0000,EEEEEC Expo=20 February 17-18, 2005 - Chicago, Illinois USA - = Helvetica0000,0000,EEEEWireless Internet Service Providers Network Operators Group (WISPNOG) = 0000,0000,EEEEConference=20 March 14-16, 2005 - New Orleans, Louisiana USA - = Helvetica0000,0000,EEEECTIA 0000,0000,EEEEWireless 2005=20 Steve Stroh Copyright =A9 2005 by Steve Stroh -- 8080,8080,8080Posted by Steve Stroh to 0000,0000,EEEEBroadband Wireless Internet Access8080,8080,8080 at 1/3/2005 10:28:00 AM=20 --- --Apple-Mail-10-477093173-- From steve@stevestroh.net Tue Jan 11 17:13:17 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0BNDHKT017122 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:13:17 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.114.140.153 Received: from [192.168.1.28] (pia140-153.pioneernet.net [66.114.140.153]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0BNBRDN016992 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:13:17 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Message-Id: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-11-477150048 From: Steve Stroh Subject: [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] Citywide Wi-Fi for Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Tempe Arizona Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:24:45 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: --Apple-Mail-11-477150048 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed (Catch-up Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog Posting=20 Notification, 7 of 10) The Wi-Fi projects for the three cities are in different phases of=20 planning and/or deployment. Particularly notable is that Tempe's=20 project is being done in conjunction with Arizona State University; the=20= ASU students will certainly know how to make good use of a public Wi-Fi=20= Network. Links: MSNBC story, originally reported by Jenifer Javia of The=20 Business Journal of Phoenix. Thanks for the intial tip from Wi-Fi=20 Planet (Week of January 3-7, 2005). Steve Stroh Copyright =A9 2005 by Steve Stroh -- Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 1/3/2005=20= 12:03:51 PM --- --Apple-Mail-11-477150048 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=ISO-8859-1 (Catch-up Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog Posting Notification, 7 of 10) The Wi-Fi projects for the three cities are in different phases of planning and/or deployment. Particularly notable is that Tempe's project is being done in conjunction with Arizona State University; the ASU students will certainly know how to make good use of a public Wi-Fi Network.=20 Links: 0000,0000,EEEEMSNBC story, originally reported by Jenifer Javia of The Business Journal of Phoenix. Thanks for the intial tip from 0000,0000,EEEEWi-Fi Planet (Week of January 3-7, 2005).=20 Steve Stroh Copyright =A9 2005 by Steve Stroh -- 8080,8080,8080Posted by Steve Stroh to 0000,0000,EEEEBroadband Wireless Internet Access8080,8080,8080 at 1/3/2005 12:03:51 PM=20 --- --Apple-Mail-11-477150048-- From steve@stevestroh.net Tue Jan 11 17:17:19 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0BNHJlS017372 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:17:19 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.114.140.153 Received: from [192.168.1.28] (pia140-153.pioneernet.net [66.114.140.153]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0BNHIDL017368 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:17:19 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Message-Id: <8878309E-6428-11D9-9616-000A95D35C46@stevestroh.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-13-477388347 From: Steve Stroh Subject: [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] Wireless Tech Radio News For January 5, 2005 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:28:43 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: --Apple-Mail-13-477388347 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed (Catch-up Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog Posting=20 Notification, 8 of 10) Welcome! We're here to bring you the best of Wireless Technology Talk=20 Radio. Remember - you can send Instant Messages the Wireless Tech Radio host=20= and co-hosts who will try to get your questions to the guests. AOL Instant Mesenger (AIM)/Apple iChat: Jim Sutton (Host): jimsuttonva Marlon Schafer (Co-host): marlonoffice Steve Stroh (Co-host): stevestroh2 (Do you use Yahoo or MSN Messenger (or another IM system) and would=20 like to submit questions and comments via those other systems? Let us=20 know - email jim@wirelesstechradio.com Because of the fast-paced nature of the show, the host and co-hosts=20 generally can't monitor email while the show is in progress.) This week's news segment will be Steve Stroh's Top Ten Wireless Stories=20= of 2004: 1. The debut, development, and success of Wireless Tech = Radio! 2. Wide-Area Wi-Fi Networks Proliferate 1. Philadelphia's proposed city-wide Wi-Fi Network, and the=20= legislative assault instigated by Verizon brought this trend, and the=20 obvious threat it poses to landline and wireless telephone companies,=20 out into the open 2. IDT's Wi-Fi Network for portions of Newark, New Jersey = will be=20 built specifically to provide Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) Over=20= Wi-Fi telephony service 3. Many, many announcements - likely averaging to more than = one=20 major announcement per week 3. WiMAX 1. 802.16-2004 standard is completed, basis of WiMAX = compatibility=20 suites 2. WiMAX Forum began the year with approximately 60 members = and more=20 than thripled that figure through the course of 2004 3. WiMAX hype reaches fever pitch - 70 Miles! 70 Megabits! = Built=20 Into Laptops! Sigh... 4. Term "Pre-WiMAX is born and instantly overused 4. Lots of jostling in the in Wireless Telephony 1. Cingular acquisition of AT&T Wireless 2. Announcement of Sprint Wireless / Nextel Merger 3. Nextel's 800 MHz for 1.9 GHz spectrum swap was approved 4. Sprint and Nextel between them control 80%+ of the = commercial=20 2.5-2.69 GHz licenses in the US... with no stated plan for that=20 spectrum from either company. 5. AT&T Wireless brand to resurface on Sprint 6. Verizon bulks up with spectrum purchases of Qwest (now = also on=20 Sprint) and Nextwave Wireless (finally ending that sad chapter in=20 spectrum misallocation) 7. AT&T Wireless / Cingular and Verizon begin serious = deployments of=20 EDGE and 1xEV-DO respectively - kind of 3G and kind of broadband. Still=20= too expensive. 8. Death of Monet Mobile Wireless 5. Emergence of Craig McCaw's Clearwire 1. McCaw's star power now being applied to Broadband, Fixed = Wireless 2. Stealthily bought soectryn licenses around the US, = including=20 Clearwire, which it's now using (spiffed up quite a bit) as its brand 3. Also bought equipment vendor NextNet Wireless for = field-proven=20 systems (but [cringe] Pre-WiMAX 4. Agressive pricing and stated goal of providing telephony = service=20 using Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) 6. Chinese require WAPI security standard for sales of = Wireless=20 Local Area Network equipment in China 1. Only Chinese vendors can get a license from Chinese = goverment to=20 embed WAPI 2. Caused a diplomatic tiff at the highest levels of = diplomacy -=20 Secretary of State Powell chides the Chinese 3. Chinese back down shortly before WAPI requirement date 4. By end of year, Chinese reinstate requirement for WAPI 7. Boeing Connexion Begins Commercial In-Flight Wireless = Internet=20 Access 1. Secret to success of real broadband connection in the = air is an=20 electronically steerable phased array antenna system on the fuselage 2. Overseas airlines first to deploy Connexion 8. New technologies emerge 1. VANU Software Radio Approved By FCC 2. Flarion/Nextel demonstrates that there's more out there = than just=20 3G, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX. 3. MIMO Quietly Emerges 4. Atheros debuts a single chip that incorporates = 802.11B/A/G=20 standards. Maybe now we'll see some significant 802.11A (capable),=20 reasonably-priced equipment 5. With the ink barely dry on IEEE 802.16-2004, 802.16 goes = back to=20 work on 802.16e to implement broadband mobility 6. IEEE chartered 802.11 subcommittee S to incroprate = Dynamic=20 Wireless Mesh Networking in to 802.11 7. IEEE also charterted 802.22 to develop technology for = Broadband=20 Wireless Internet Access systems to operate in the television broadcast=20= spectrum, license-exempt, without causing interference to incumbent=20 television broadcasting use 8. 802.15.4 - AKA Zigbee, was approved. Zigbee is short = range, low=20 data rate, very efficient (battery life measured in month) wireless=20 standard - think thermostats. 9. Not to be outdone in the technology development = department...=20 crackers (hackers, to some) created "Bluesnarfing" and other exploits=20 for the relatively weak security of Bluetooth links built into many=20 current-generation wireless phones. 10. The Nintendo's next generation handheld gaming system, = the DS,=20 comes standard with Wi-Fi so two DS users in close proximity can do=20 battle against each other. 9. The FCC was very busy 1. Proposed license-exempt sharing of television broadcast = spectrum 2. Released 2.5 GHz band reorganization plan 3. Declared that private venues such as airports and = college=20 campuses cannot regulate the use of license-exempt wireless equipment=20 like privately-owned Wi-Fi gear 4. To date, the FCC is still losing the argument with the = NTIA and=20 DOD about WLANs jamming RADAR systems, so the "new" 255 MHz of spectrum=20= at 5.4 GHz still isn't available for use 5. Approved Broadband Over Powerline (BPL) as another = broadband=20 delivery option... to the fury of Amateur Radio Operators and a=20 lackluster reception by electrical utility companies 6. Declared that - Free World Dialup, a Voice Over Internet = Protocol 7. Will study the potential for allowing cellular telephony=20= "picocells" in planes. Oh joy! 8. "Telephony-like" service that's not connected to the = Public=20 Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)... is not a Telecommunications=20 Service. 9. Unbundled Network Elements Provisions of 1996 = Telecommunications=20 Reform Act are finally killed... again... really dead this time. The=20 wireline telephony cackle with glee. It's impressive what $Billions in=20= legal and lobbying fees... all fully reimburseable by ratepayers, can=20 accomplish. Broadband Wireless Internet Access Service Providers don't=20= exactly rush to defend their wireline-based competitors. 10. The "You can't do that! department 1. TowerStream Boldly Goes... Into Chicago, and = spectrum-crowded LA=20 using license-exempt spectrum and offering businesses service level=20 agreements 2. First free VOIP/Wi-Fi HotSpot is started in Portland. 3. Reasonably-priced, non-proprietary VOIP/Wi-Fi Phones = emerge.=20 They work really well in coffee shops with free Wi-Fi across the street=20= from the headquarters of major wireless telephony companies. 4. Death Of Cometa. Yup... turns out that you can't deploy = lots of=20 Wi-Fi HotSpots that way. 5. Amazing how for Hutzpah will get you... YDI Wireless = assimilated=20 Ricochet Networks (on its fourth? life now), Karlnet, and Terabeam. Steve Stroh Copyright =A9 2005 by Steve Stroh. This article originally appeared on=20= Wireless Tech Radio's WirelessTechLog. -- Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 1/4/2005=20= 11:54:41 AM --Apple-Mail-13-477388347 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=ISO-8859-1 (Catch-up Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog Posting Notification, 8 of 10) Welcome! We're here to bring you the best of Wireless Technology Talk Radio. Remember - you can send Instant Messages the Wireless Tech Radio host and co-hosts who will try to get your questions to the guests.=20 AOL Instant Mesenger (AIM)/Apple iChat:=20 Jim Sutton (Host): jimsuttonva Marlon Schafer (Co-host): marlonoffice Steve Stroh (Co-host): stevestroh2 (Do you use Yahoo or MSN Messenger (or another IM system) and would like to submit questions and comments via those other systems? Let us know - email 0000,0000,EEEEjim@wirelesstechradio.com=20 Because of the fast-paced nature of the show, the host and co-hosts generally can't monitor email while the show is in progress.)=20 This week's news segment will be Steve Stroh's Top Ten Wireless Stories of 2004:=20 1. The debut, development, and success of Wireless = Tech Radio!=20 2. Wide-Area Wi-Fi Networks Proliferate 1. Philadelphia's proposed city-wide Wi-Fi Network, and the legislative assault instigated by Verizon brought this trend, and the obvious threat it poses to landline and wireless telephone companies, out into the open 2. IDT's Wi-Fi Network for portions of Newark, New Jersey = will be built specifically to provide Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) Over Wi-Fi telephony service 3. Many, many announcements - likely averaging to more than = one major announcement per week 3. WiMAX 1. 802.16-2004 standard is completed, basis of WiMAX = compatibility suites 2. WiMAX Forum began the year with approximately 60 members = and more than thripled that figure through the course of 2004 3. WiMAX hype reaches fever pitch - 70 Miles! 70 Megabits! = Built Into Laptops! Sigh... 4. Term "Pre-WiMAX is born and instantly overused 4. Lots of jostling in the in Wireless Telephony 1. Cingular acquisition of AT&T Wireless 2. Announcement of Sprint Wireless / Nextel Merger 3. Nextel's 800 MHz for 1.9 GHz spectrum swap was approved 4. Sprint and Nextel between them control 80%+ of the = commercial 2.5-2.69 GHz licenses in the US... with no stated plan for that spectrum from either company. 5. AT&T Wireless brand to resurface on Sprint 6. Verizon bulks up with spectrum purchases of Qwest (now = also on Sprint) and Nextwave Wireless (finally ending Helveticathat sad chapter in spectrum misallocation) 7. AT&T Wireless / Cingular and Verizon begin serious = deployments of EDGE and 1xEV-DO respectively - kind of 3G and kind of broadband. Still too expensive. 8. Death of Monet Mobile Wireless 5. Emergence of Craig McCaw's Clearwire 1. McCaw's star power now being applied to Broadband, Fixed = Wireless 2. Stealthily bought soectryn licenses around the US, = including Clearwire, which it's now using (spiffed up quite a bit) as its brand 3. Also bought equipment vendor NextNet Wireless for = field-proven systems (but [cringe] Pre-WiMAX 4. Agressive pricing and stated goal of providing telephony = service using Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) 6. Chinese require WAPI security standard for sales of = Wireless Local Area Network equipment in China 1.=20 = HelveticaOnly = Chinese vendors can get a license from Chinese goverment to embed WAPI 2. Caused a diplomatic tiff at the highest levels of = diplomacy - Secretary of State Powell chides the Chinese 3. Chinese back down shortly before WAPI requirement date 4. By end of year, Chinese reinstate requirement for WAPI 7. Boeing Connexion Begins Commercial In-Flight Wireless = Internet Access 1. Secret to success of real broadband connection in the = air is an electronically steerable phased array antenna system on the fuselage 2. Overseas airlines first to deploy Connexion 8. New technologies emerge 1. VANU Software Radio Approved By FCC 2. Flarion/Nextel demonstrates that there's more out there = than just 3G, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX. 3. MIMO Quietly Emerges 4. Atheros debuts a single chip that incorporates = 802.11B/A/G standards. Maybe now we'll see some significant 802.11A (capable), reasonably-priced equipment 5. With the ink barely dry on IEEE 802.16-2004, 802.16 goes = back to work on 802.16e to implement broadband mobility 6. IEEE chartered 802.11 subcommittee S to incroprate = Dynamic Wireless Mesh Networking in to 802.11 7. IEEE also charterted 802.22 to develop technology for = Broadband Wireless Internet Access systems to operate in the television broadcast spectrum, license-exempt, without causing interference to incumbent television broadcasting use 8. 802.15.4 - AKA Zigbee, was approved. Zigbee is short = range, low data rate, very efficient (battery life measured in month) wireless standard - think thermostats. 9. Not to be outdone in the technology development = department... crackers (hackers, to some) created "Bluesnarfing" and other exploits for the relatively weak security of Bluetooth links built into many current-generation wireless phones. 10. The Nintendo's next generation handheld gaming system, = the DS, comes standard with Wi-Fi so two DS users in close proximity can do battle against each other. 9. The FCC was very busy 1. Proposed license-exempt sharing of television broadcast = spectrum 2. Released 2.5 GHz band reorganization plan 3. Declared that private venues such as airports and = college campuses cannot regulate the use of license-exempt wireless equipment like privately-owned Wi-Fi gear 4. To date, the FCC is still losing the argument with the = NTIA and DOD about WLANs jamming RADAR systems, so the "new" 255 MHz of spectrum at 5.4 GHz still isn't available for use 5. Approved Broadband Over Powerline (BPL) as another = broadband delivery option... to the fury of Amateur Radio Operators and a lackluster reception by electrical utility companies 6. Declared that - Free World Dialup, a Voice Over Internet = Protocol 7. Will study the potential for allowing cellular telephony "picocells" in planes. Oh joy! 8. "Telephony-like" service that's not connected to the = Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)... is Helveticanot a Telecommunications Service. 9. Unbundled Network Elements Provisions of 1996 = Telecommunications Reform Act are finally killed... again... Helveticareally dead this time. The wireline telephony cackle with glee. It's impressive what $Billions in legal and lobbying fees... all fully reimburseable by ratepayers, can accomplish. Broadband Wireless Internet Access Service Providers don't exactly rush to defend their wireline-based competitors. 10. The "You can't do that! department 1. TowerStream Boldly Goes... Into Chicago, and = spectrum-crowded LA using license-exempt spectrum and offering businesses service level agreements 2. First free VOIP/Wi-Fi HotSpot is started in Portland. 3. Reasonably-priced, non-proprietary VOIP/Wi-Fi Phones = emerge. They work really well in coffee shops with free Wi-Fi across the street from the headquarters of major wireless telephony companies. 4. Death Of Cometa. Yup... turns out that you Helveticacan't deploy lots of Wi-Fi HotSpots that way. 5. Amazing how for Hutzpah will get you... YDI Wireless assimilated Ricochet Networks (on its fourth? life now), Karlnet, and Terabeam. Steve Stroh Copyright =A9 2005 by Steve Stroh. This article originally appeared on 0000,0000,EEEEWireless Tech Radio's 0000,0000,EEEEWirelessTechLog.=20 -- 8080,8080,8080Posted by Steve Stroh to 0000,0000,EEEEBroadband Wireless Internet Access8080,8080,8080 at 1/4/2005 11:54:41 AM=20 --Apple-Mail-13-477388347-- From steve@stevestroh.net Tue Jan 11 17:17:56 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0BNHuXj017396 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:17:56 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.114.140.153 Received: from [192.168.1.28] (pia140-153.pioneernet.net [66.114.140.153]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0BNHIDM017368 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:17:56 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Message-Id: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-14-477428802 From: Steve Stroh Subject: [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] WISP Heresies (Three Of Them, Anyway) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:29:23 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: --Apple-Mail-14-477428802 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed (Catch-up Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog Posting =20 Notification, 9 of 10) As part of my panel discussion at the Fall, 2004 Wi-Fi Planet =20 Conference, I presented "Ten WISP Heresies". Following the conference, =20= I was asked to write a short article based on that presentation. That article has now been published on JupiterMedia's ISP Planet =20 website in the Fixed Wireless Business section. Here's a brief intro: WISP Heresies Although the WISP industry is still very young, one wireless pundit =20 says that the industry is already mired in groupthink on several key =20 business issues. by Steve Stroh Editor of FOCUS On Broadband Wireless Internet Access [December 27, 2004] As a writer who watches the Wireless ISP and Broadband Wireless =20 Service Provider industry, I observe from "30,000 feet". Because I'm =20 purely an observer and not an operating WISP or otherwise affiliated =20 with a vendor, service provider, or analyst firm, I've developed some =20= "unconventional" perspectives. When I jokingly (I thought) offered to present a list of what I called =20= "WISP Heresies" during my time on a panel discussion at the Fall 2004 =20= Wi-Fi Planet Conference & Expo WISP session, moderator Alex Goldman =20 said "Great! I'll look forward to it!" In my presentation I discussed a =20= total of Ten WISP Heresies, but space only permits an extended =20 discussion of what I consider to be the three most compelling =20 "Heresies." ... WISP Heresy #10: Invest In Better Systems Up Front WISP Heresy #7: Competition From=85 Where?!?!?! WISP Heresy #5: WiMAX Isn't Almost Here=85For WISPs The full article is online at =20 http://www.isp-planet.com/fixed_wireless/business/2004/=20 stroh_heresies.html. At some point in the near future, I'll post the other seven "Heresies" =20= here. Steve Stroh Copyright =A9 2005 by Steve Stroh -- Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 1/4/2005 =20= 02:51:49 PM --- Steve Stroh Editor, FOCUS On Broadband Wireless Internet Access Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog - http://www.bwianews.com 425-939-0076 | Skype: stevestroh2 | steve@stevestroh.net | =20 http://www.stevestroh.com --Apple-Mail-14-477428802 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=WINDOWS-1252 =20 (Catch-up Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog Posting Notification, 9 of 10) As part of my panel discussion at the 0000,0000,EEEEFall, 2004 Wi-Fi Planet Conference, I presented "Ten WISP Heresies". Following the conference, I was asked to write a short article based on that presentation. That article has now been published on JupiterMedia's 0000,0000,EEEEISP Planet website in the 0000,0000,EEEEFixed Wireless Business section. Here's a brief intro:=20 HelveticaWISP Heresies=20 HelveticaAlthough the WISP industry is still very young, one wireless pundit says that the industry is already mired in groupthink on several key business issues.=20 Helveticaby Steve Stroh=20 HelveticaEditor of FOCUS On Broadband Wireless Internet Access=20 Helvetica[December 27, 2004] = HelveticaAs a writer who watches the Wireless ISP and Broadband Wireless Service Provider industry, I observe from "30,000 feet". Because I'm purely an observer and not an operating WISP or otherwise affiliated with a vendor, service provider, or analyst firm, I've developed some "unconventional" perspectives.=20 HelveticaWhen I jokingly (I thought) offered to present a list of what I called "WISP Heresies" during my time on a panel discussion at the Fall 2004 Wi-Fi Planet Conference & Expo WISP session, moderator Alex Goldman said "Great! I'll look forward to it!" In my presentation I discussed a total of Ten WISP Heresies, but space only permits an extended discussion of what I consider to be the three most compelling "Heresies." = Helvetica... HelveticaWISP Heresy #10: Invest In Better Systems Up Front HelveticaWISP Heresy #7: Competition From=85 Where?!?!?! HelveticaWISP Heresy #5: WiMAX Isn't Almost Here=85For WISPs=20 The full article is online at = 0000,0000,EEEEhttp://www.isp-planet.com/fixed_wirele= ss/business/2004/stroh_heresies.html.=20 At some point in the near future, I'll post the other seven "Heresies" here.=20 Steve Stroh Copyright =A9 2005 by Steve Stroh -- 8080,8080,8080Posted by Steve Stroh to 0000,0000,EEEEBroadband Wireless Internet Access8080,8080,8080 at 1/4/2005 02:51:49 PM=20 --- Steve Stroh Editor, FOCUS On Broadband Wireless Internet Access Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog - http://www.bwianews.com 425-939-0076 | Skype: stevestroh2 | steve@stevestroh.net | http://www.stevestroh.com --Apple-Mail-14-477428802-- From steve@stevestroh.net Tue Jan 11 17:19:15 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0BNJFRY017420 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:19:15 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.114.140.153 Received: from [192.168.1.28] (pia140-153.pioneernet.net [66.114.140.153]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0BNJEDL017416 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:19:15 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Message-Id: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-15-477505199 From: Steve Stroh Subject: [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] Administrivia - Change Log For 1Q 2004 Updated Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:30:40 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: --Apple-Mail-15-477505199 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed (Catch-up Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog Posting=20 Notification, 5A of 10) Updated Postings: =95 2005-01-04 - Philadelphia Proposes Citywide Wi-Fi = Network to=20 include text of a WSJ article on the subject. =95 2005-01-03 - Wireless Relief Being Organized for = Tsunami-impacted=20 Areas to include another potential assistance organization - Geekcorps. =95 2005-01-01 - Administrivia - Back To Writing About BWIA = (Here) to=20 include the 4.940 - 4.990 Public Safety band. (earlier updates won't be=20= listed as they backdated as posted. Backdated Postings: =95 2004-03-25-2004-12-31 - Reposting of articles on Corante = /=20 Broadband Wireless Internet Access from first article on March 25, 2004=20= through October 12, 2004. =95 2003-03, 2003-04, 2003-06, 2003-08 - Reposting of = articles from my=20 second Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog from March, April,=20 June, and October, 2003. These entries were originally posted at=20 www.strohpub.com/weblog (which is now a redirect to www.bwianews.com). =95 2002-12-16 - Posted "US Military Claims 5 GHz Wireless = LANs Can=20 Interfere With RADAR?"; it was in queue to be posted, but apparently=20 was not posted at the time. =95 2002-06-08 - 2002-12-17 - Reposting of articles from my = original=20 Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog from June 8, 2002 through=20 December 17, 2002. I found, to my delight, that in checking the Radio=20 Userland server in late December, 2004, the Radio Userland server that=20= hosted my original Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog has been=20 "healed". When I looked at it last, with the hopes of extracting my=20 previous postings from it, it was... "messed up" and there were only a=20= few of the postings available. Now it looks like they're all there, and=20= I've copied them over with a few minor updates such as extracting=20 portions of some postings to standalone postings on more appropriate=20 dates. These "reposted" postings are accessible via the Archives=20 listing on the sidebar. =95 2001-11-07 - Part 18 RF Lighting: A Potential = "Extinction Level=20 Event" For Communications Users Of The 2.4 GHz Band. This article was=20 originally posted "standalone" as an example of the articles published=20= in FOCUS On Broadband Wireless Internet Access. The HTML formatting was=20= a mess (saved as "HTML" from Microsoft Word) and since I was updating=20 it, it made sense to post it on the Broadband Wireless Internet Access=20= Weblog. The original URL for the article -=20 http://www.strohpub.com/0701feat.htm, was widely linked to from, among=20= others, Robert X. Cringely and Slashdot, so I placed a redirect from=20 that URL to this version of the article. Background: A great thing about weblogs and web pages is that they can be changed=20 to reflect updated information. A bad thing about weblogs is that since=20= they're organized chronologically, it's tough to find a page that has=20 been updated. I plan to post a lot of "back-dated" material to this weblog, as well=20 as occasionally update a particularly seminal posting. To call=20 attention to those new (but not visible since their date will be=20 previous to the current date) and updated (added to or otherwise=20 changed the text from the original) postings, I'll maintain this Change=20= Log posting, and change the date to the current whenever I make a=20 backdated posting or update and repost it. I'll list the changes and=20 updates in reverse chronological order so you'll see the most recent=20 changes first. Steve Stroh Copyright =A9 2004-2005 by Steve Stroh. -- Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 1/4/2005=20= 10:11:55 AM --Apple-Mail-15-477505199 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=WINDOWS-1252 (Catch-up Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog Posting Notification, 5A of 10) Updated Postings:=20 =95 2005-01-04 - 0000,0000,EEEEPhiladelphia Proposes Citywide Wi-Fi Network to include text of a WSJ article on the subject. =95 2005-01-03 - 0000,0000,EEEEWireless Relief Being Organized for Tsunami-impacted Areas to include another potential assistance organization - Geekcorps. =95 2005-01-01 - 0000,0000,EEEEAdministrivia - Back To Writing About BWIA (Here) to include the 4.940 - 4.990 Public Safety band. (earlier updates won't be listed as they backdated as posted. Backdated Postings:=20 =95 2004-03-25-2004-12-31 - Reposting of = articles on Corante / Broadband Wireless Internet Access from first article on March 25, 2004 through October 12, 2004. =95 2003-03, 2003-04, 2003-06, 2003-08 - = Reposting of articles from my second Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog from March, April, June, and October, 2003. These entries were originally posted at www.strohpub.com/weblog (which is now a redirect to www.bwianews.com). =95 2002-12-16 - Posted "0000,0000,EEEEUS Military Claims 5 GHz Wireless LANs Can Interfere With RADAR?"; it was in queue to be posted, but apparently was not posted at the time. =95 2002-06-08 - 2002-12-17 - Reposting of = articles from my original Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog from June 8, 2002 through December 17, 2002. I found, to my delight, that in checking the Radio Userland server in late December, 2004, the Radio Userland server that hosted my original Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog has been "healed". When I looked at it last, with the hopes of extracting my previous postings from it, it was... "messed up" and there were only a few of the postings available. Now it looks like they're all there, and I've copied them over with a few minor updates such as extracting portions of some postings to standalone postings on more appropriate dates. These "reposted" postings are accessible via the Archives listing on the sidebar. =95 2001-11-07 - 0000,0000,EEEEPart 18 RF Lighting: A Potential "Extinction Level Event" For Communications Users Of The 2.4 GHz Band. This article was originally posted "standalone" as an example of the articles published in FOCUS On Broadband Wireless Internet Access. The HTML formatting was a mess (saved as "HTML" from Microsoft Word) and since I was updating it, it made sense to post it on the Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog. The original URL for the article - http://www.strohpub.com/0701feat.htm, was widely linked to from, among others, Robert X. Cringely and Slashdot, so I placed a redirect from that URL to this version of the article. Background:=20 A great thing about weblogs and web pages is that they can be changed to reflect updated information. A bad thing about weblogs is that since they're organized chronologically, it's tough to find a page that has been updated.=20 I plan to post a lot of "back-dated" material to this weblog, as well as occasionally update a particularly seminal posting. To call attention to those new (but not visible since their date will be previous to the current date) and updated (added to or otherwise changed the text from the original) postings, I'll maintain this Change Log posting, and change the date to the current whenever I make a backdated posting or update and repost it. I'll list the changes and updates in reverse chronological order so you'll see the most recent changes first.=20 Steve Stroh Copyright =A9 2004-2005 by Steve Stroh.=20 -- 8080,8080,8080Posted by Steve Stroh to 0000,0000,EEEEBroadband Wireless Internet Access8080,8080,8080 at 1/4/2005 10:11:55 AM=20 --Apple-Mail-15-477505199-- From steve@stevestroh.net Tue Jan 11 17:23:11 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0BNNB1Z017599 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:23:11 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0BNNBDL017595 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:23:11 -0600 Received: from bla53.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.213]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F0A196F2 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:40:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <442295.1105486474318.JavaMail.root@bla53.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Subject: [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] Winncom Technologies WiMAX Seminar In Seattle (updated) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:40:19 -0800 (PST) Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Winncom Technologies will be presenting Winncom WiMAX Summit 2005 on February 10, 2= 005 . It will be held near the Seattle Tacoma International Airport (SeaTac= ) and will run from 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM.

Among the vendors giving presentations are Axxcelera, Alvarion, Bridgewave= , and Orthogon Sy= stems. I'll be looking foward to hearing what the WiMAX strategy is for= Axxcelera and Bridgewave is; Alvarion and Orthogon have already publicly d= iscussed their WiMAX strategies.


Steve Stroh

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Posted by Steve St= roh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 1/11/2005 03:3= 4:12 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Tue Jan 18 14:11:06 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0IKB6qD030367 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:11:06 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0IKB6DL030363 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:11:06 -0600 Received: from bla3.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.213]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FDAC1FD57D for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:22:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <25103987.1106079779126.JavaMail.root@bla3.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Subject: [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] Freedom To Connect Conference March 30-31, 2005 in Washington DC Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:22:59 -0800 (PST) Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 I wholeheartedly endorse the organizer of Freedom To Connect 2005.

I wish I could endorse the conference, as it is outlined at this writ= ing, as effusively.

I agree with David Isenberg's ov= erall premise for FTC 2005, that this year will be pivotal for key decision= s to be made about the real futu= re of telecommunications as it relates to what individuals will be able (al= lowed) to do or not do...

However, I feel that such a conference seems horribly incomplete not = to include as a core precept what, to me, is the most fundamentally personal "Freedom To Connect" - an indi= vidual's ability to use license-exempt spectrum for personal telecommunicat= ions. From that simple "right", new telecommunications infrastructure is co= ming into being... from individual households, to (all, poor and rich alike= ) the citizens of Philadelphia, to entire Native American Nations in North = America, to 100+ mile wireless links to bypass the blatant stupidity and gr= eed of telephony companies.

But make no mistake... that "right" is at risk, as it has become possible and now popular to use license-exempt spectrum to begin dis= placing services and systems that used to be possible only on a private, fo= r-pay basis. Just as in wireline telecommunications, those who formerly pro= vided such for-pay services aren't "going to go away gracefully", and view = license-exempt spectrum as just another "regulatory issue" that can be even= tually bent to their purposes. To discuss these and related issues would se= em natural, to me, at a conference with this name. But, to be fair to Isenb= erg, there simply isn't much of a active constituency... at least one willi= ng to pay Isenberg for sponsorships... for license-exempt wireless.

Also in fairness, there's nothing in the current material about Freed= om To Connect 2005 that even hints that discussion of license-exempt wirele= ss will be excluded. But, the li= sted sponsors, speakers, and overall lack of any mention don't bode well fo= r in-depth discussions or presentations about the relevant issues in licens= e-exempt wireless. Thus, I reluctantly draw the conclusion that Freedom To = Connect 2005 will be mostly, if not completely, about wireline regulatory i= ssues.

Update<= span style=3D"font-style: italic;">: I emailed this text to Isenberg before= I posted it, and in his response claims that Wireless "is in there". I loo= ked again, and see no mention of wireless, but you should look at the site = and draw your own conclusions.

I've been to other Isenberg confe= rences, and if nothing else they're amazing just in making connections = among the smart, er SMART= , people that Isenberg attracts (... and a lot more, but that would be tell= ing). I've learned an amazing amount at Isenberg's conferences (Isenberg ha= s brought together some really amazing collaborative techniques and technol= ogy), and for that reason alone I'll break my "Only BWIA-related content" policy here in mentioning Freedom To Connect 2005.


Steve Stroh

Copyright =C2=A9 2005 by Steve Stroh



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Posted by Steve St= roh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 1/18/2005 11:= 02:34 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Wed Jan 26 21:43:20 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0R3hKWS032348 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:43:20 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0R3hKbp032344 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:43:20 -0600 Received: from bla13.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.213]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E55E19699 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:02:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8051687.1106798145994.JavaMail.root@bla13.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Subject: [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] Cheap Wireless Really Changes Things Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:02:09 -0800 (PST) Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 I'm down with my annual cold/flu affliction that seems to be part of the pr= ice to be paid for living in the Seattle area. I'm backed up on meaty BWIA = news and information that I really should blog, FOCUS is overdue, and I cou= ld barely croak through my news segment on Wireless Tech Radio this morning= .

But tonight I read a story that stirred me from my "check the mail to= see if I'm missing anything vital, then back to bed for a few hours" mode = I've been in for the last couple of days. In this story, Broadband Wireless= Internet Access, in the form of self-installed Wi-Fi played a minor, but p= ivotal role in "connecting two of the six billion brains on the planet"* in= a rather special way:

Kitty11_3 turned out to be a 22 y= ear old girl from Hanoi, who, like her father, works for the state-owned oi= l company. She had managed to get five of her neighbors in the Hanoi suburb= where she lives to go in on a DSL line and WiFi which she had set up herse= lf.

Kitty11_3 earns about $100/month - apparently middle class in Hanoi, = but apparently DSL is expensive enough that to be affordable, she has to sh= are the cost with five neighbors. She was able to do it herself with Wi-Fi.

I've said for a long time that the reason that Broadband Wireless Int= ernet Access is important isn't because it's Wireless, it that wireless hap= pens to be a far more practical, and in many cases more cost-effective way = to get Broadband Internet Access to many... or perhaps even most... of the = citizens of the planet. Wireline technologies and distribution systems will= get us only so far before they become impractical or non-cost-effective. S= imilarly, we won't get there with wireless telephony systems that were desi= gned for voice and suffer from that limitation. There's something in the mi= ddle with the advantages of wireless, and the capabilities of wireline broa= dband - Broadband Wireless Internet Access, which originally entered the po= pular consciousness as Wi-Fi, and lately, WiMAX.

You can read the entire story of how Vu My Dun met John Perry Barlow,= courtesy of the Internet, DSL, Wi-Fi/BWIA, and Skype here. Recom= mended!

* "Connecting two of the six billion brains on the planet" is the sta= ted mission of Col. Dave Hughes. I can't think of a better way to describe = the ultimate potential of the Internet.


Steve Stroh

Copyright =C2=A9 2005 by Steve Stroh



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Posted by Steve St= roh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 1/26/2005 07:34= :28 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Mon Feb 14 12:21:24 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1EILOTL023483 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:21:24 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1EILObp023479 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:21:24 -0600 Received: from bla54.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.213]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5339B1FD57B for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:35:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <31760064.1108406111335.JavaMail.root@bla54.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Subject: [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] Update - Freedom To Connect Conference March 30-31, 2005 in Washington DC Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:35:11 -0800 (PST) Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Update February 14, 2005:
David Isenberg writes in his weblog:
I am so delighted that [Dianah Neff, the CIO of Philad= elphia, who is driving Philadelphia's controversial wireless buildout] has = agreed to speak at F2C: Freedom to Connect, March 30 & 31, Washington DC th= at I can hardly sit still!

Other than Ms. Neff's appearan= ce, there's still very little on the F2C program that overtly reflects wireless, so my original comment= s stand. I suspect (hope?!?!) that the attendees will come to realize, as h= as been the case with some previous Isenberg conferences that I've attended= , that license-exempt wireless is one of the primary ways to accomplish the= ir stated goals - in this case, "Freedom To Connect". I expect that by the = time Ms. Neff is through speaking to this crowd, the attendees will underst= and, to the core of their being, that license-exempt wireless is the "Freedom To Connect".


(Original article, posted January 18, 2005 follows:)

I wholehea= rtedly endorse the organizer of Freedom To Connect 2005.

I wish I could endorse the conf= erence, as it is outlined at this writing, as effusively.

I agre= e with David Isenberg's overall premis= e for FTC 2005, that this year will be pivotal for key decisions to be made= about the real future of teleco= mmunications as it relates to what individuals will be able (allowed) to do= or not do...

However, I feel that such a conference seems horri= bly incomplete not to include as a core precept what, to me, is the most fundamentally personal "Freedom To= Connect" - an individual's ability to use license-exempt spectrum for pers= onal telecommunications. From that simple "right", new telecommunications i= nfrastructure is coming into being... from individual households, to (all, = poor and rich alike) the citizens of Philadelphia, to entire Native America= n Nations in North America, to 100+ mile wireless links to bypass the blata= nt stupidity and greed of telephony companies.

But make no mista= ke... that "right" is at risk, a= s it has become possible and now popula= r to use license-exempt spectrum to begin displacing services and sy= stems that used to be possible only on a private, for-pay basis. Just as in= wireline telecommunications, those who formerly provided such for-pay serv= ices aren't "going to go away gracefully", and view license-exempt spectrum= as just another "regulatory issue" that can be eventually bent to their pu= rposes. To discuss these and related issues would seem natural, to me, at a= conference with this name. But, to be fair to Isenberg, there simply isn't= much of a active constituency... at least one willing to pay Isenberg for = sponsorships... for license-exempt wireless.

Also in fairness, t= here's nothing in the current material about Freedom To Connect 2005 that e= ven hints that discussion of license-exempt wireless will be excluded. But, the listed sponsors, speakers, = and overall lack of any mention don't bode well for in-depth discussions or= presentations about the relevant issues in license-exempt wireless. Thus, = I reluctantly draw the conclusion that Freedom To Connect 2005 will be most= ly, if not completely, about wireline regulatory issues.

Update: I emailed this text to Isenberg before I posted it,= and in his response claims that Wireless "is in there". I looked again, an= d see no mention of wireless, but you should look at the site and draw your= own conclusions.

I've been to other Isenberg conferences, and if nothing else they're amazi= ng just in making connections among the smart, er SMART, people that Isenberg attracts (... and a lo= t more, but that would be telling). I've learned an amazing amount at Isenb= erg's conferences (Isenberg has brought together some really amazing collab= orative techniques and technology), and for that reason alone I'll break my= "Only BWIA-related content" pol= icy here in mentioning Freed= om To Connect 2005.


Steve Stroh

Copyright = =C2=A9 2005 by Steve Stroh

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Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 2/14/2005 10:30:00 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Mon Feb 14 14:34:24 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1EKYOx8028586 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:34:24 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1EKYNbp028582 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:34:23 -0600 Received: from bla54.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.213]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E7B019638 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:55:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19395525.1108414100096.JavaMail.root@bla54.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Subject: [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] MetroBridge Networks of Vancouver BC Joins WiMAX Forum Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:55:30 -0800 (PST) Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 While large service providers such as AT&T, British Telec= om, Covad, Clearwire and many others have "noisily" joined the WiMAX Forum,= a number of notable smaller service providers have been joining the WiMAX = Forum in the last year.

The most recent member of the WiMAX Forum (now numbering 204 member comp= anies), and its first Canadian Service Provider member and Vancouver, Briti= sh Columbia's largest Broadband Wireless Service Provider is MetroBridge Wireless. CEO Dorian Banks views = joining WiMAX Forum as a strategic move for MetroBridge Wireless - "We are = excited to be in on the ground floor of the coming standardization of the i= ndustry," says Banks. "Becoming a forum member shows our commitment to stay= at the forefront of the industry."

MetroBridge joins a number o= f similar-sized Broadband Wireless Service Providers such as airBand Communications of Dallas, Texas, NextWeb of Fremont, California and StoneBridge Wireless of Eden Prairie, M= innesota. Along with TowerStream (deployed in a number of major markets), these service providers are part= icularly notable within WiMAX Forum because:
  1. In stark contr= ast to the very large service provider members of the WiMAX Forum, these sm= aller companies are already in the busi= ness of using Broadband Wireless Internet Access systems to provide = Broadband Internet Access services. In short, WiMAX won't be "anything new"= to these companies that are already out there "doing it".
  2. They = are independent - not affiliated= with a large telecommunications service provider.
  3. They cluefull= y make effective use of license-exempt spectrum to connect to their custome= rs.
In an era of behemoths greedily absorbing each other in orde= r to chase a rapidly-diminishing customer base with last century's technolo= gical underpinnings, it's refreshing to see smaller, more innovative compan= ies such as MetroBridge making major inroads in this century's telecommunications industry such as joining = the WiMAX Forum.


Steve Stroh

Copyright =C2=A9 2= 005 by Steve Stroh.

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Poste= d by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 2/= 14/2005 11:00:00 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Thu Feb 17 07:51:15 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1HDpFwt001627 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:51:15 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1HDpEbp001623 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:51:15 -0600 Received: from bla33.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.213]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5071519596 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:12:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4652050.1108649113046.JavaMail.root@bla33.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Subject: [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] WiMAX Networking News, Near Miss On Sprint BWIA Analysis Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:12:30 -0800 (PST) Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 It's good news / bad news when I mention that Glenn Fleishman has launched = a new franchise - WiMAX Networking Ne= ws as an outgrowth of the excellent Wi-Fi Networking News. Good news, b= ecause Fleishman and Senior Editor Nancy Gohring do a very good job with Wi-Fi Networking News covering al= l manner of Wi-Fi developments in home networking, enterprise networking, a= nd Wireless HotSpots (we overlap only on the last, and not so much there ei= ther).

Bad news that WiMAX Networking News is much more direct c= ompetition for this weblog, Broadband Wireless Internet Access. T= hen again, perhaps not, given that by name, they may choose to restrict the= ir coverage to WiMAX, while I view the Broadband Wireless Internet Access i= ndustry as much bigger than "just WiMAX", which is why I've resisted the te= mptation to affiliate my work more directly with WiMAX.

A case i= n point about the difference in coverage is a recent WiMAX Networking News = article titled More Details on Sprint WiMAX Plans. Gohring discusses Sp= rint's possible motivations for not using existing BWIA technology: But it=C2=92s probably important to keep in mi= nd that Sprint has been burned before trying to use its MMDS licenses. It w= as an early mover in building out networks several years ago after it bough= t a slew of MMDS licenses but the equipment it used, from a company called = Hybrid, just wasn=C2=92t quite there yet so Sprint shelved the effort.

I feel it's an incorrect characterization that the "Hybrid eq= uipment wasn't quite there yet." I'm very familiar with Sprint's deployment= of Hybrid equipment - the Hybrid equipment performed exactly as designed. = Sprint's problem with the Hybrid gear was that they tried to load too many = customers onto too few base station sectors/channels. Until Sprint reached = the oversaturation point, Sprint's Broadband Wireless customers were pretty= happy with the performance of the system. In fact, many still are - Sprint= froze new customer acquisition, but continues to operate a number of Hybri= d systems and at my last check with some remaining customers they're genera= lly happy (once they find a stable DNS server, which Sprint can never seem = to manage for very long).

Why is Sprint waiting to deploy Broadb= and Wireless? It doesn't have a choice - it will be fully occupied with the= proposed merger with Nextel. Why is it discontinuing its trial of Flarion = systems? Same answer, not 2.5 - 2.69 GHz spec= trum that Sprint and Nextel own.

My prediction is that Sprint an= d Nextel will do approximately nothing<= /span> in deploying public-access Broadband Wireless Internet Access with t= heir combined 2.5 - 2.69 GHz spectrum licenses. At most, they will make som= e limited use of their 2.5 - 2.69 GHz spectrum for backhaul links to their = cell sites. They can't do much more than that - they're nearly overcommitte= d as is:
  1. They have to complete the corporate, legal, financ= ial, and regulatory mechanics of merging two very different companies and c= ultures, including a planned spinout of Sprint's wireline operations.
    2. =
  2. Technologically, they have to migrate all of the existing Nextel customers to Sprint's existing 1.9 G= Hz CDMA network and Nextel's new 1.9 GHz spectrum being swapped for Nextel'= s 800 MHz spectrum... i= DEN Push-To-Talk capabilities on top of CDMA... and seamlessly replicate the coverage they had with 800 MHz spect= rum... and so= rt things out with Nextel Partners for roaming coverage in non-metro areas = of the US when Nextel Partners may not be able to afford wholesale conversi= on to 1.9 GHz CDMA systems.
  3. They have to keep growing the busine= ss(es) whose customer bases now include businesses and enterprise (Nextel),= consumers (Sprint PCS), and wholesale wireless services (Virgin Mobile, Qw= est) against two (now) larger and (now) more formidable competitors in Veri= zon and Cingular.
Against those factors, Broadband Wireless Inte= rnet Access in 2.5 - 2.69 GHz would be a dangerous distraction that Sprint/= Nextel simply cannot afford for the foreseeable future. That's not to say t= hat Sprint/Nextel won't keep making interesting "noises", like the announce= ment that Gohring references about "waiting until WiMAX mobility is ready".= Such a tactic might serve to distract Verizon and Cingular into devoting s= ome resources into potentially competing... such as making some noise of th= eir own about using their 2.3 GHz spectrum. But, again, such posturing is a= distraction. For the next several years, the battleground for the largest = US wireless players will be 1.9 GHz consolidations such as AT&T Wireless an= d Cingular, the new Nextel 1.9 GHz spectrum, and Verizon assimilating Qwest= and NextWave 1.9 GHz spectrum. Not to mention the 1.8 GHz spectrum that th= e FCC may make available as early as mid-2007.

So what will, ult= imately, happen with Sprint/Nextel's 2.5 - 2.69 GHz spectrum? My guess is t= hat they'll end up leasing it to Clea= rwire in the theory that Clearwire's target market is primarily fixed B= roadband Wireless Internet Access that displaces wireline voice and Broa= dband Internet Access. Who has most to lose from Clearwire's assault= ? Consider the old adage "The Enemy Of My Enemy... Is My Friend." Sprint/Ne= xtel's competitors - SBC and Bel= lSouth (Cingular) and Verizon (Verizon Wireless) have much more to lose in = a contest with Clearwire because they have wireline customers... not to men= tion an enormous installed base of wireline facilities... to protect.
=
In any case... Welcome, Glenn and Nancy, to formal coverage of Broadb= and Wireless Internet Access with the emergence of WiMAX Networking News.


Steve Stroh
Copyright =C2=A9 2005 by Steve Stroh

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Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireles= s Internet Access at 2/14/2005 03:00:00 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Thu Feb 17 13:24:31 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1HJOVUj012687 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:24:31 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1HJOVbp012683 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:24:31 -0600 Received: from bla33.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.213]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F78F195CB for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:45:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <15306383.1108669120640.JavaMail.root@bla33.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Subject: [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] At HISPANIC, Part 1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:45:58 -0800 (PST) Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 I'm attending WISPNOG in Chicago. T= he acronym stands for Wireless Internet Service Provider Network Operator G= roup. WISPNOG is targeted at the experienced and operational WISPs talking = to each other about the problems of scaling their systems and other growth = pains. That's the theory, anyway. While there aren't any "Thinking about be= coming a WISP?" sessions, there are a l= ot of attendees that are "thinking about becoming a WISP". A couple = of comments I heard surprisingly often were "I just sold my WISP..." and "W= e've just acquired another WISP". Another observation is that 80%+ of the a= ttendees are from the US Midwest, and many drove. This tells me that there'= s a lot of unmet demand for conf= erences of this type to "roam" around the country, and each one will attrac= t their own unique audience because they can drive instead of the expense o= f airfare, car rental, etc. Shorecliff Communications tried this several ye= ars ago for two years and they're not doing that any more. But that was the= n, and this is now... and there's a lot more interest in WISP services now.=

Part of WISPNOG will be the most significant in-person meeting = to date of the newly-constituted WISPA, the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association.

WISPNOG = Organizer Charles Wu has put me to work moderating a number of panel sessio= ns, in addition to my panel presentation tomorrow.

The venue of = WISPNOG is the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Willowbrook, IL. It's close= to Midway Airport (which is where Southwest Airlines flies into in Chicago= ), seems reasonably priced, and has excellent, reliable Wi-Fi coverage in r= ooms and public spaces. Wireless at the Holiday Inn Willowbrook is apparent= ly provided by Blue Mountain Network= s. More impressive than the coverage was the fact that their tech suppo= rt answered the phone in the late evening and was able to resolve the issue= I was having (couldn't send email) by providing me with the IP address of = an SMTP server that did work.

So far, I've been involved with in= teractive panels dealing with FCC issues and WiMAX. Motorola is sponsoring = a nice lunch buffet, and some of their team is "subjecting themselves" to d= iscussion and feedback about what customers like and don't like about Motor= ola Canopy. There are a lot of Canopy fans in the audience... but more than= a few detractors about issues like the 60 degree beamwidth of Canopy Custo= mer Premise Equipment (CPE) units. One Canopy rep sheepishly admitted that = some Canopy users are using pie pans as homemade reflectors / RF isolators.=

I'm particularly looking forward to hearing more from DLS Internet at a prese= ntation tomorrow which claims to offer a "Burst to 10 Mbps" Broadband Wirel= ess Internet Access service... for $65/month.


Steve Stroh<= br />
Copyright =C2=A9 2005 by Steve Stroh

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Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access= at 2/17/2005 01:30:00 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Thu Feb 17 14:51:15 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1HKpFZA016114 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:51:15 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 69.60.111.146 Received: from sp0252b (146-111-60-69.serverpronto.com [69.60.111.146] (may be forged)) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1HKpEbp016110 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:51:15 -0600 Received: from [192.168.25.19] ([12.165.134.66]) by sp0252b with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:05:36 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <4551577aed735426df80e0bce3fe7a39@stevestroh.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net From: Steve Stroh Subject: Oops... meant At WISPNOG, not HISPANIC Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:05:22 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Feb 2005 21:05:36.0258 (UTC) FILETIME=[6D162E20:01C51534] Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Apologies for the confusing subject line of the last posting - the Blogger spell checker "helped" a bit too much, and I didn't catch that it had altered the subject line. Thanks, Steve --- Steve Stroh Editor, FOCUS On Broadband Wireless Internet Access Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog - http://www.bwianews.com 425-939-0076 | Skype: stevestroh2 | steve@stevestroh.net | http://www.stevestroh.com From steve@stevestroh.net Fri Feb 18 13:27:45 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1IJRjHR028309 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:27:45 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1IJRjbp028305 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:27:45 -0600 Received: from bla75.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.213]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 192AB195BD for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:49:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <30812635.1108755713730.JavaMail.root@bla75.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Subject: [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] Catching Up - Jack Unger Joins NextPhase Wireless Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:49:14 -0800 (PST) Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 I rarely publicize personnel news in the Broadband Wireless Internet Access= industry, but consultant and trainer Ja= ck Unger joining a Broadband Wireless Internet Access Service Provid= er is significant news.

Unger was part of the very first wave of= BWIA SPs, so his very hands-on experience with the BWIA industry runs deep= . After selling his BWIA SP, Unger made his considerable expertise widely a= vailable to several waves of new BWIA SPs as Ask-Wi.Com, Inc., offering consulting services, very w= ell-regarded training courses, and with Cisco Press, wrote the most "hands on" book for BWIA SPs - Deploying License-Free Wireless = Wide-Area Networks.

Now Unger has joined NextWave Wireless of Anaheim (Los Angeles area), California a= s Chief Wireless= Engineer. Among other services, NextWave offers 100 Mbps Broadband Wir= eless Internet Access service. Unger getting "locked up" by NextWave is a c= onsiderable loss to the BWIA industry as a whole, but a significant coup fo= r NextWave. I expect that the BWIA industry will start hearing from Unger a= gain in his new position.

(From February 8, 2005. I'm catching u= p from when I was ill for most of three weeks.)


Steve Stro= h

Copyright =C2=A9 2005 by Steve Stroh

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Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wi= reless Internet Access at 2/18/2005 11:30:00 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Sat Feb 19 14:23:02 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1JKN24u009857 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:23:02 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.114.140.153 Received: from [192.168.1.109] (pia140-153.pioneernet.net [66.114.140.153]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1JKN0bp009852 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:23:01 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <8066bf949fa2a1cba8d229f0e5bebd0a@stevestroh.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net From: Steve Stroh Subject: Oops... Jack Unger Has Joined NextPHASE Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 05:11:44 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Apologies for any confusion in my recent Broadband Wireless Internet Access weblog posting about which company Jack Unger joined. Unger has joined NextPHASE Wireless... not NextWave Wireless. My thanks to FOCUS subscriber RP for pointing out this error. Thanks, Steve --- Steve Stroh Editor, FOCUS On Broadband Wireless Internet Access Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog - http://www.bwianews.com 425-939-0076 | Skype: stevestroh2 | steve@stevestroh.net | http://www.stevestroh.com From steve@stevestroh.net Mon Feb 21 22:54:18 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1M4sI85025819 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:54:18 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1M4sHbp025815 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:54:17 -0600 Received: from bla74.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.213]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11A091FD599 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:08:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <32200441.1109048926066.JavaMail.root@bla74.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Subject: [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] 2005 BWIA Conferences And Events Of Note Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:08:46 -0800 (PST) Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20
2005 Upcoming BWIA-Related Conferences And Events Of Note=
Updated February 21, 2005

Input on other BWIA-Related Conferences and Events that you= feel should be listed here would be appreciated - please = send me email.

February 23-24, 2005 - International Quality &= Productivity Center (IQPC) North America WiMAX Technology Summit (Google cache) - San Jose= , California

March 1-2, 2005 - Association and Communications Events Wireless Australia 2005 - Sydney, New South = Wales, Australia

March 1-3, 2005 - Institute For Telecommunications Sciences (ITS) / National Telec= ommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) / U. S. Department Of C= ommerce (USDOC) International Symposium On Advanced Radio Technologies (ISART) -= Boulder, Colorado USA

March 2-4, 2005 - Vision In Business = WiMAX 2005 - Barcelona, Spain

March 13-18, 2005 - IEEE 802.22 Working Group 802.22 Session 3(?) Link t= o scedule Excel file - Atlanta, Georgia USA

March 14-16, 200= 5 - CTIA Wireless 2005 - New Orleans, Louisiana USA
March 14-17, 2005 - IEEE 802.16 = Working Group 802.16 Session 36 - Atlanta, Georgia USA

March 20-22,= 2005 - Part-15.Org = WISPCON VII - Baltimore, Maryland USA

April 5-8, 2005 - WiMAX Forum WiMAX Summit - Paris, France

April= 19, 2005 - Rock Med= ia / Wireless WLAN Event WiMAX and Wireless Broadband Access - London, England,= United Kingdom

April 19-20, 2005 - Dow Jones VentureWire Wireless Ventures 2005 - Redwood City, California USA

A= pril 20-21, 2005 - Jupitermedia /= Jupiterevents WiFi*VoWiFi Planet Japan 2005 - Tokyo, Japan

April 20-22, = 2005 - Shorecliff Communications LLC<= /a> Broadband Wireless World 2005 - Las Vegas,= Nevada USA

April 28-29, 2005 - International Quality & Productiv= ity Center (IQPC) Germany WiMAX: Assessing The Pote= ntial Of Emerging Wireless Broadband Technologies- Berlin, Germany

May 2-4, 2005 - Wireless Internet In= stitute Digital = Cities Convention - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA

May 2-5, = 2005 - IEEE 802.16 Working Group= 802.16 Ses= sion 37 - Sorrento, Italy

May 11-12, 2005 - B2B Conferences WiMAX 2005 - London, Engla= nd, United Kingdom

May 15-20, 2005 - IEEE 802.22 Working Group 802.22 Session 4(?) - PDF - Ca= irns, Australia

May 18-19, 2005 - WowGao Wi= reless & Mobile World Expo - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

May 22= -24, 2005 - Part-15.Org WISPCON-PAC - Auckland, New Zea= land. (Congrats MA and LK - you did it!)

May 24-26, 2005 - The Golden Group / Jupi= termedia / Jupiterevents ISPCON Spring 2005 - Baltimore, Maryland USA

May 24-2= 7, 2005 - Delson Group World Wireless Congress - San Francisco, California = USA

June 14-16, 2005 - Jupitermedia / Jupiterevents WiFi*VoWiFi Planet Spring 2005 - Baltimore, Ma= ryland USA

June 6-9, 2005 - TIA SUPERCOMM (Wireless track) - Chicago, Illinois USA

June 28 - July 1, 20= 05 - Wireless Communication= s Association International (WCA - WCAI) WCA 2005 Conference - Washington, DC USA

July 11-13, 2005 - Delson Group Fourth Generation Mob= ile Forum - San Diego, California USA

July 18-21, 2005 - IEEE 802.16 Working Group 802.16 Session 38<= /a> - San Francisco, California USA

September 12-15, 2005 - IEEE 802.16 Working Group 802.16 Session 39= - Tiapei, Taiwan

October 9-11, 2005 - Part-15.Org WISPCON VIII - Dallas, Texas USA
October 17-20, 2005 - The Gol= den Group / Jupitermedia / Ju= piterevents ISPCON = Fall 2005 - Santa Clara, California USA

October 26-28, 2005 = - WiMAX World WiMAX World 2005 - Boston, Massachusetts USA
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November 14-17, 2005 - IEEE 80= 2.16 Working Group = 802.16 Session 40 - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Dece= mber 6-8, 2005 - Jupitermedia / J= upiterevents WiFi*VoWiFi Planet Fall 2005 - San Jose, California USA


Past 2005 BWIA-Related Conferences And Events Of Note
(For Reference Only)

January 5-7, 2005 - National Telecommunication= s Cooperative Association (NTCA) 2005 IOC Wireless Symposium - Phoenix, Arizona USA

January= 6-9, 2005 - C= onsumer Electronics Association (CEA) Consumer Electronics Show (CES) - Las Vegas, Nevada USA

Ja= nuary 10-12, 2005 - Part-15.Org How to Run a Profita= ble Small WISP - San Jose, California USA

January 13, 2005 -= Wireless Communications Association Inter= national (WCA) Relief= Effort For South Asia Disaster & Wireless Infrastructure Needs Meeting= - San Jose, California USA

January 11-14, 2005 - Wireless Communications Association International (WCA)<= /a> International Symp= osium & Business Expo - San Jose, California USA. I hope to attend= this conference.

January 19-21, 2005 - Electro-comm Distributing EC Expo - Denver, Colorado USA
January 20, 2005 - Heavy Reading / Light Reading / Unstrung Wi-Max= : Why Now? - New York City, New York USA

February 17-18, 200= 5 - Wireless Internet Service Providers= Network Operators Group (WISP*NOG) Conference - Chicago, Illinois USA


Steve Stroh
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Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless I= nternet Access at 2/21/2005 04:00:00 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Tue Feb 22 09:56:47 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1MFulk0015569; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:56:47 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.114.140.153 Received: from [192.168.1.167] (pia140-153.pioneernet.net [66.114.140.153]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1MFujbp015558; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:56:47 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <0b26541b5448f54149ebff5937c05f50@stevestroh.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: focus_distribution@stevestroh.net, bwia_posting@stevestroh.net From: Steve Stroh Subject: New America Foundation Washington DC Briefing - Bridging The Broadband Digital Divide Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:11:13 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Steve-- I thought you might find this interesting. --Jim J.H. Snider, Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow New America Foundation 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW Washingtion, DC 20009 Tel: 202/986-2700 Jim: Indeed I do find this interesting and would have publicized it more widely and with more notice if (as I've requested several times) New America Foundation had a mailing list that I could subscribe specifically for the activities of its Spectrum Policy Program. Currently I receive bulletins about all the activities of the NAF. To try to keep FOCUSed on Broadband Wireless Internet Access, general bulletins such as those from NAF go into the "to be culled through when time is available" section of my email system. Thanks, Steve The New America Foundation presents a Capitol Hill Briefing - MUNICIPAL WIRELESS NETWORKS: BRIDGING THE BROADBAND DIGITAL DIVIDE How unlicensed wireless broadband networks are promoting public safety, economic development and affordable Internet access in towns across America. Tuesday, 22 February 3:00 - 4:30p.m. Russell Senate Office Building, Room 253 Washington, D.C. with DIANAH NEFF Chief Information Officer, City of Philadelphia OSCAR MARTINEZ Assistant City Manager, City of Corpus Christi, Texas SASCHA MEINRATH Co-Founder and Project Coordinator, Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network, Illinois DR. MARVIN A. SIRBU Professor, Engineering and Public Policy Chairman, Information Networking Institute, Carnegie Mellon University moderator MICHAEL CALABRESE Vice President, New America Foundation RSVP to Naveen Lakshmipathy 202-986-2700 or lakshmipathy@newamerica.net "Experts say the Philadelphia model, if successful, could provide the tipping point for a nationwide movement to make broadband affordable and accessible in every municipality....But Philadelphia's plan has prompted a debate over ... whether government should compete with private industry, particularly in hard-to-reach rural areas or low-income urban communities." [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/17/technology/17wired.html? pagewanted=print&position ] - New York Times, February 17, 2005, Page A1 Why are America's municipalities - from small town Corpus Christi and Granbury, Texas, to big cities such as Philadelphia - building wireless broadband networks and fighting state legislatures that want to ban them? The networks rely on unlicensed public airwaves to extend the reach of WiFi-type broadband coverage to blanket business districts, towns and even entire cities. Recent reports criticizing municipal wireless networks make them sound like some socialist conspiracy. But the small towns and cities building these networks don't agree. Come listen to their side of the story as they explain how municipal networks are spurring broadband competition, bridging the digital divide, fostering business development, and serving public safety needs. For more on the New America Foundation and its Spectrum Policy Program: http://www.spectrumpolicy.org -- Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 2/22/2005 07:44:00 AM --- Steve Stroh Editor, FOCUS On Broadband Wireless Internet Access Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog - http://www.bwianews.com 425-939-0076 | Skype: stevestroh2 | steve@stevestroh.net | http://www.stevestroh.com From steve@stevestroh.net Tue Feb 22 11:28:40 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1MHSeN8018358; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:28:40 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.114.140.153 Received: from [192.168.1.167] (pia140-153.pioneernet.net [66.114.140.153]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1MHSdbp018353; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:28:40 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Message-Id: <4c04d15a9e6d22742e9c75010aa37322@stevestroh.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed To: focus_distribution@stevestroh.net, bwia_posting@stevestroh.net From: Steve Stroh Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:43:07 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by stevestroh.net id j1MHSeN8018358 Subject: [bwia_posting]Policymakers' Best Hope For... Competition May Come From Startups Such As... ClearWire Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: ... While the phone giants will face stiff competition, regulators can't rest easy. The recurring problem for policymakers is the lack of competition for the last-mile connection to homes. There the Bells and cable companies still typically are the only relatively affordable options consumers have for broadband connections. Chances are the two rivals will "settle into a cozy duopoly" to avoid price wars, says former FCC Chairman William E. Kennard, now a managing director at Carlyle Group, a private equity firm in Washington. Policymakers' best hope for more price competition may come from startups such as wireless mogul Craig O. McCaw's ClearWire Corp., which sells broadband at affordable rates in select markets via WiMax wireless technology. ... The above is an excerpt from a February 28, 2005 article in Business Week Online - The Shifting Telecom Landscape. Authors Catherine Yang, Brian Grow, Steven Rosenbush, and Roger O. Crockett make the usual mistake of WiMAX being synonymous with Broadband Wireless Internet Access (BWIA) in general (Clearwire uses NextNet Wireless equipment that is proprietary - not WiMAX compliant). But the article is notable for placing BWIA in the proper context - as a matter-of-fact competitor to wireline Broadband Internet Access. The article is also notable for the phrase "... such as... Clearwire (and yes, it's Clearwire, not ClearWire). With that phrase, the authors very correctly (and unusually, for general press) indicated to the readers that Clearwire is not the only company of its type. Indeed not! As an example, at the recently concluded WISP*NOG Conference, I learned of DLS Internet Services, a BWIA Service Provider in the Chicago area. DLS' "Platinum" level of service is "burst to" (at least they're honest... unlike the typical marketingspeak of DSL and cable modem service providers) 10 Mbps... for $65/month!!! As an additional competitive measure, DLS Internet Services offers Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) telephony service (akin to Vonage) to their wireless customers. Hearing a DLS Internet Services rep speak at WISP*NOG, it was very apparent that while DLS is exceptionally good at all phases of being a BWIA Service Provider... there's nothing about DLS that, with good planning and execution couldn't be replicated by other BWIA service providers. License-exempt spectrum and new generations of BWIA technology... that's the real "Freedom To Connect". Steve Stroh This article is Copyright © 2005 by Steve Stroh (except for the fair-use excerpt from Business Week Online). -- Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 2/22/2005 09:30:00 AM --- Steve Stroh Editor, FOCUS On Broadband Wireless Internet Access Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog - http://www.bwianews.com 425-939-0076 | Skype: stevestroh2 | steve@stevestroh.net | http://www.stevestroh.com From steve@stevestroh.net Tue Feb 22 13:18:30 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1MJIUGt021947 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:18:30 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1MJIUbp021943 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:18:30 -0600 Received: from bla34.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.213]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE08F1FD539 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:33:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1617495.1109100780961.JavaMail.root@bla34.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:33:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] Discussion of HSDPA Versus Mobile WiMAX Misses A Critical Point Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 In a recent article on WiMAX Networking News, Nancy Gohring comments o= n Om Ma= lik who's commenting on HSDPA (the latest CDMA-based "real Broadband" w= ireless telephony technology).

The main point being made is that= HSDPA is projected to be widely available before "mobility-enabled" WiMAX = systems and thus WiMAX systems and service providers hoping to provide mobi= lity services will "lose out" to HSDPA.

But both Gohring and Mal= ik miss one critical piece of background information - WiMAX (and 802.16-20= 04, 802.16e, and 802.20 [the latter two still in work] are efforts to codif= y existing Broadband Wireless In= ternet Access technology into an interoperable standard.

Existing BWIA Technology - including Mobility-enabled Broadband Wireless Intern= et Access! Such systems are available now, off the shelf, by vendors such as Flarion, Alvarion, IPWireless, NextNet Wireless (used by Clearwire; ergo every Clearwire system is capable of mobile b= roadband), Adaptix, and Wi-LAN to name but a few= .

Mobile-enabled BWIA Technology is so available, so off-the-she= lf, that I wrote a feature article about it in FOCUS On Broadband Wireless Internet Access... in= 2001! The article was a profile= of Odessa Office Equipme= nt, a Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) serving the Eastern Was= hington community of Odessa and surrounding areas. Here's the relevant exce= rpt from the article:

One of= the more startling demonstrations of OOE=C2=92s wireless Internet access s= ervice that I was given during my stay was mobile wireless Internet access.= OOE has outfitted several patrol cars from the local Sheriff=C2=92s depart= ment for wireless Internet access, which is accessed via existing laptop co= mputers. Reports can be composed in the field, and transmitted via email. D= eputy Kelly, who graciously gave me a brief ride to demonstrate the system,= was startled when I burst out laughing at the situation of, being mobile i= n Odessa Washington=C2=85 I had better [mobile] Internet connectivity than = what was available to me at my home in Woodinville, Washington only a few m= iles away from the high-tech colossus of Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, Washin= gton. I can attest that mobile Internet access in Odessa Washington works, = and works well.

Here's the kicker... OOE owner Marlon Sch= afer used off-the-shelf 802.11 (not even 802.11b at that time) equipment in= his mobility-enabled broadband system. Imagine what the current-generation= technology from the vendors mentioned above is capable of.

OK, = granted, the systems mentioned above are 1) Not yet WiMAX-standardized, and= 2) some are not "portable". But consider:
  1. The same BWIA in= frastructure can provide service to both fixed and mobile customers - cost effectively.
  2. Such sys= tems are generally not "spectrum bound" - they're flexible in which spectru= m they can use - potentially sharing television broadcast spectrum, 700 MHz= , 2.3 GHz, 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz (yes... it can be done, ask the San Diego Count= y Sheriff's Department), potentially 500 MHz at 5 GHz (and yes, mobility do= es work there - it's quite an effort, but it's possible.) Not to mention that in rural areas there is an ab= solute abundance of unused 1.9 G= Hz "mobile telephony" spectrum (the "old, analog" 800 MHz mobile telephony = spectrum works very well in rural areas).
  3. Such systems don= 't require $Billions of investment to implement
  4. Because su= ch systems can be deployed by any number of different types of entities (in= cluding municipal governments), customers will have real choice in such ser= vices instead of being restricted to an oligopoly offering only walled gard= ens and other severely limited choices.
Now, consider the possibil= ities of an en= tire community that's already blanketed with seamless Wi-Fi coverage...= that existing Wi-Fi PDAs, Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) over Wi-Fi p= hones... and handheld gaming systems like Sony's new Playstation Portable (= PSP)* can use now... off-the-shelf.

Imagine the reaction of the = citizens of Grand Haven when HSDPA comes to their community: "You want how much per month for your service?= !?! It's only how fast?!?! I can= only use it with a phone, that I can only buy from your company?!?! Um, no Thanks, I'll stick to the city's Wi-Fi service and = be able to whatever I want."

The bottom line is that, for mobile= broadband, it's not the case that we're waiting for HSDPA or WiMAX. If mob= ile broadband is needed, at this point it's a matter of deploying a system = that best fits the needs of the intended customer base.

It is the case that both HSDPA and mobil= e WiMAX will, increasingly, be faced with competition that was never imagined in their hubris that their re= spective systems are the solutio= n for Broadband Wireless Internet Access.

* I mention the PSP he= re because I was recently educated that it is the hottest thing in portable= video - thanks DLH. While the current version isn't (as far as I'm aware) = equipped with Wi-Fi, it's only a matter of time before Sony responds to com= petitive pressures of other, existing handheld gaming systems that do have = Wi-Fi.


Steve Stroh

This article is Copyright = =C2=A9 2005 by Steve Stroh

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Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access a= t 2/22/2005 11:30:00 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Thu Feb 24 09:59:44 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1OFxi7b015108 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:59:44 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1OFxibp015104 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:59:44 -0600 Received: from bla34.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.213]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26A3819649 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:21:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <581857.1109261653118.JavaMail.root@bla34.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:21:48 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] Seybold Disses License-exempt Spectrum and Systems... Again Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Andrew Seybold is a well-respected advocate, critic, an= alyst, consultant, and writer on the subject of wireless data. He began wri= ting about the field in its infancy, in the early 1980's when it was known = as Packet Radio, and has chronicled and critiqued the rise, and fall, and p= rogress of wireless telephony data services over the lifetime of the wirele= ss telephony industry. Seybold has a large following through his training services and Sey= bold's past(?) affiliations with Forbes Magazine in doing a newsletter and = a conference. In short, Seybold has earned his audience and his status as p= undit.

Seybold is, and has been for his entire history, a severe= critic of any use of license-exempt spectrum other than Wireless Local Are= a Networks (WLANs) - emphasis on local<= /span>. He just can't see how it will work, especially given the potential = for interference. Coming from a background of two-way radio, such a viewpoi= nt is understandable. Seybold doesn't seem to have any exposure to advanced= techniques of interference mitigation and management that are now extant i= n the most advanced systems designed to operate in license-exempt spectrum.= In his prejudice against "serious" use of license-exempt spectrum, Seybold= also prefers to ignore a number of very significant, very successful deplo= yments of license-exempt systems such as the San Diego County Sheriff's Department (p= articularly notable because this is a public safety application.)

So it's no surprise whatsoever that he once again rails at license-exempt= spectrum in this excerpt from a Seybold "talk" in Wir= eless Week:

Debi, Pleasanton CA:
Wha= t is your high-level take on using unlicensed spectrum for commercial purpo= ses? Is it fair? And, more specifically, what do you think about developing= commercial products that use unlicensed spectrum for short-range and then = connects to GPS or cellular to extend the range of service?
Andy Seybold:Debi--unlicensed spectrum is being u= sed for commercial applications--I know of a number of 2.4 and 5 GHz system= s that are being used for point-to-point, but I also know of a bunch that h= ave crashed and burned because of interference--my real answer is that miss= ion critical wireless applications should be used in licensed and coordinat= ed spectrum only--it is too risky to rely on unlicensed spectrum. For examp= le the city of Phila's new Wi-Fi system which I understand will be "shared"= by both end-users and first responders is a real mistake in my view--we ar= e going to see a lot of wide area systems that "connect" to unlicensed syst= ems for in-building range extension and other things and perhaps that will = work but the risk, to me, of interference, is too great--especially is you = are charging for services and the customers expectations are for a solid, r= eliable wireless connection all of the time--there are a lot of issues with= unlicensed systems and even if you have one that works today there is no g= uarantee that it will work tomorrow, if someone else decides to put up thei= r own system either unknowingly or because they can and they say the hell w= ith others who are already making use of the same spectrum.
"... expectations are for a solid, reliable wireless connection all the = time..." Like cell phones, with their "saturation" coverage and "adequate" = capacity? But I digress.

I think that what has happened with Sey= bold is that he's caught in a major paradigm shift in his industry - rapidl= y-evolving technology has made possible the effective, reliable use of lice= nse-exempt spectrum for commercial... and even critical systems. Seybold's = simply not equipped to effectively analyze the trend.

One exampl= e of the type of system I'm talking about, and an example I cite often beca= use I'm not aware of any other company or system that does as much to opera= te reliably in license-exempt spectrum is Aperto Networks' PacketWave, which iteratively tunes ten different parameters= to optimize the link from base station to subscriber unit... including mea= sures to automatically restore a reliable connection if interference is enc= ountered.

Nancy Gohring, in her article in WiMAX Networking News<= /a> (which alerted me to this particular Seybold utterance), stated For example, at one point he says that someone= else might put up a network nearby that interferes, either on accident or = because they say =C2=93the hell with the others.=C2=94 The fact is, it=C2= =92s pretty rare for someone to do that while saying =C2=93the hell with th= e others=C2=94 because if you interfere with someone else, you=C2=92re also= causing interference, and thus a reduced level of service, on your own net= work. That seems silly."

Unfortunately, the scenario that= Seybold (who Gohring is quoting) describes is all too common - a license-e= xempt system starting up causes interference to an existing license-exempt = system, with the new system suffering little or no interference from the ex= isting system. By design, there is no remedy for such a situation in the FC= C rules - license-exempt systems much accept any and and all interference. = What's different in recent years is that systems now exist that can effectively deal with interference when= it occurs. Or, simply be robust enough to not suffer interference from les= s-robust systems in the first place, as is generally the case with Motorola Canopy systems... but will= cause less-robust license-exempt systems severe interference. Such is the = Darwinian Effect of License-exempt Wireless that I have been trying to expl= ain for many years now.


Steve Stroh

This articl= e is Copyright =C2=A9 2005 by Steve Stroh

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Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless I= nternet Access at 2/24/2005 08:00:00 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Fri Feb 25 11:14:10 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1PHEAWj030693 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:14:10 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1PHEAbp030688 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:14:10 -0600 Received: from bla34.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.213]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6686B195C3 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:36:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <26065649.1109352523753.JavaMail.root@bla34.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:36:21 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] Catching Up - India and Canada To Develop New BWIA System Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 One of the projects at Canada's Communications= Research Centre (CRC) is MILTON (Microwave-Light Organized Network); a system to economica= lly and effectively distribute fiber bandwidth using license-exempt spectru= m.

Now, India's Center For Development of Telematics (C-DoT) is = interested in further development of MILTON for India's unique near-term te= lecommunications requirements - a rapidly "technologizing" society but rela= tively low incomes to pay for telecommunications services.

MILTO= N is pretty interesting - a MILTON "rosette" can consist of as many as 48 "= pedals" - each pedal is an individual panel antenna that can support as man= y as 30 "hot spots". Each "hot spot" can be a individual user of bandwidth,= or more likely a localized cluster of users that use Wi-Fi to connect.

It might help to think of MILTON as a 5 GHz "sprinkler head" on top= of a fiber optic "hose".

Milton is primarily designed to use 5 = GHz license-exempt spectrum. By using so many panels and aggressive frequen= cy reuse, it's expected that a MILTON rosette can effectively distribute ap= proximately 1 Gbps of bandwidth from a fiber connection- a reasonable, effe= ctive use of fiber bandwidth. MILTON implements cognitive radio techniques = to deal with the interference that can be expected when using 5 GHz on spec= ific pedals and channels.

One of the more interesting aspects of= MILTON that I didn't see mentioned in my admittedly cursory look at the CR= C's material on MILTON is how they deal with the potential for inter-antenn= a desense in the rosette. Then again, being outside the US, MILTON may simp= ly use spectral diversity. Such an approach would be effective because Cana= da and India can make use of nearly 500 MHz of 5 GHz spectrum since they don't have to "protect" US DOD RAD= AR systems from "harmful interference". In the US, a long promised 255 MHz = of spectrum at 5.470 - 5.725 GHz is still unavailable for communications us= e due to intransigence on the part of US DOD.

A recent and relat= ed development is that MILTON could be easily located up to 1 mile away fro= m a fiber connection and still have the full benefit of 1 Gbps+ bandwidth w= ith the use of 60 GHz radios. In the US, 60 GHz systems are license-exempt = (the ~57-64 GHz has the same oxygen-absorption properties worldwide, so it'= s reasonable to expect that 57-64 GHz could be harmonized as license-exempt= worldwide.) As an example, the BridgeWave GE60 achieves 1+ Gbps at a reasonable price of US$= 19,000/link. So if the fiber is in building A, but nearby building B is tal= ler and is better situated for deploying a MILTON "rosette", a 60 GHz link = could cost-effectively bridge that gap with no sacrifice in available bandw= idth from the fiber.

More bac= kground:

Good overview by Sam Church= ill of DailyWireless (and thanks for the initial tip for this story.)
=
Good summary art= icle on CommsDesign

(From February 7, 2005. I'm catching up from= when I was ill for most of three weeks.)


Steve Stroh

This article Copyright =C2=A9 2005 by Steve Stroh

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= Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wi= reless Internet Access at 2/25/2005 07:00:00 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Fri Feb 25 00:54:53 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1P6sr6n009461 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:54:53 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1P6srbp009457 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:54:53 -0600 Received: from bla34.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.213]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C108B195F6 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:17:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <27962472.1109315375198.JavaMail.root@bla34.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:17:11 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] FCC Grants Aloha Partners 700 MHz Adjacent Channel Waiver Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 On February 18, 2005, buried in the typical minutiae of the FCC's daily output of announcements, was the appr= oval (PDF link) of a long-sought waiver request by Aloha Partners LP th= at allows them to commence Broadband Wireless Internet Access services usin= g their 700 MHz licensed spectrum in the Tucson, Arizona market. While Aloh= a Partners has been very public about the submission of the waiver request,= it was not a certainty that the waiver would be granted.

In mar= ked contrast to several previous developments with Aloha Partners (no, they= don't have seem to have a web page - go figure), Aloha Partners has been s= ilent about the granting of the FCC waiver. I was alerted to this developme= nt only through a mention in the February 24, 2005 issue of the Wireless Communications Association International= 's (WCA) Weekly Bulletin and License Exempt Alliance (LEA) Report (availabl= e only to WCAI members).

The waiver is necessary to conduct a pr= oof-of-concept operational test that Aloha's operations in their 700 MHz al= locations in Tucson (the former television channels 54 and 59) will not mat= erially impact ongoing television broadcast operations on television channe= l 58 (which will eventually have to vacate the auctioned spectrum as part o= f the transition to digital television broadcasting.)

The waiver= and proof-of-concept test is very significant. If Aloha Partners can opera= tionally demonstrate a lack of interference to legacy television broadcast = operations in auctioned 700 MHz spectrum, the various 700 MHz spectrum owne= rs could commence new services such as (Fixed and mobile) Broadband Wireless Internet Access very soon rath= er than waiting indefinitely for legacy television broadcasting to cease op= erations in auctioned 700 MHz spectrum.

In a related development= , on February 1, 2005, Aloha Partners LP announced that it will purchase Ca= valier Group LLC and DataCom Wireless LLC, respectively the second and thir= d largest owners of 700 MHz spectrum in the US. Aloha Partners now has spec= trum sufficient for a (mostly) nationwide network, including spectrum in th= e top ten urban markets and "84% of the top forty urban markets".

In previous interviews, Aloha Partners has stated that they intend to use= Flarion FLASH OFDM systems for the= ir initial deployments. Flarion recently announced a significant advancement in its FLA= SH technology, which would seem to make it an even better fit for Aloha's o= perations.

An extended discussion of this development, based on = previous interviews with Aloha, Flarion, and some well-informed extrapolati= on of what the Aloha waiver from the FCC means for "related" spectrum (pote= ntially even a bigger deal than 700 MHz) will be a feature article in the n= ext issue of FOCUS On Broadband Wirele= ss Internet Access, available only to subscribers.


Ste= ve Stroh

This article is Copyright =C2=A9 2005 by Steve Stroh
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Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 2/25/2005 07:30:00 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Fri Feb 25 11:14:05 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1PHE58N030675 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:14:05 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1PHE5bp030671 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:14:05 -0600 Received: from bla34.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.213]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCE4F1FD56C for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:28:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9167432.1109352523769.JavaMail.root@bla34.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:28:43 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] Speculator "Games" Low Power Television - Screws Up Potential For License-exempt Use Of TV Spectrum Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 I caution you to read the following, including the hyperlinked documents, c= arefully and critically. Not doing so will probably result (as was the case= with me) in coming to a (mostly) incorrect conclusion that a Machiavellian= plot is underway to blatantly, artificially restrict the amount of televis= ion broadcast spectrum potentially available for license-exempt use. While = it appears that a plot is definitely underway to amass "paper" television s= tation licenses... the purpose seems to be simple financial speculation - g= reed. This time, anyway.

In a February 24, 2005 email message (t= houghtfully forwarded by Esme Vos of MuniWireless.com), Michael Calabrese, a Vice President of the New Americ= a Foundation (Spectrum Policy Project) writes:

Subject: Center Public Integrit= y Expose on spectrum speculators eating up white space in the TV bands

I'd like to call your att= ention to the Center for Public Integrity's expose, released today, reveali= ng how spectrum speculators are accumulating Low Power TV licenses in a bid= to "own" empty TV band channels ahead of the FCC's pending rule making to = open TV "white space" (the wasted analog guard bands) to affordable communi= ty broadband on an unlicensed basis.

New America research associate Kartik Ramachandran identifi= ed the company, MS Communications, on which the Center for Public Integrity= based its expose. This research, led by Jim Snider, is merely one example = of a concerted broadcast industry effort to expropriate "white space" in th= e Channel 2-52 band -- a $6 billion grab (to date) described in the FCC Rep= ly Comments we filed on behalf of a national coalition supporting the reall= ocation of unassigned TV channels for community broadband access.
You can view the expose at:
http://www.publicintegrity.= org/telecom/printer-friendly.aspx?aid=3D602

You can view our Reply Comments describing the larger b= roadcast band spectrum grab at:<= /span>
http://www.newamerica.net/Downl= oad_Docs/pdfs/Doc_File_2203_1.pdf (= PDF download)

I hope = this will lend credence to the argument that these TV band speculators shou= ld not be given more spectrum at the expense of unlicensed broadband and ou= r economic future. Another question: why isn't the FCC stripping licenses a= way from these spectrum speculators?

Again, my conclusion= of the aim of MS Communications is that they spotted the opportunity to "g= ame" the FCC's arcane processes for licensing low-power television stations= . This exchange is particularly enlightening:

When the Center queried the commission about MS Communica= tions, an agency spokesperson replied in a written statement: "We can confi= rm that MS Communications is currently broadcasting over 201 LPTV licensed = stations." In fact, Silberman is not broadcasting programming on any of tho= se stations.

In Meridian, Miss., for instance, where MS Communic= ations holds licenses for 12 low-power stations, the Center confirmed that = nothing is currently being broadcast over any of the assigned channels. Whe= n asked about this, the FCC spokesperson replied that, as a matter of pract= ice: "We trust that the licensee has indicated through filings that they ar= e broadcasting and if they go off the air=C2=85they have to apply for the a= uthority to [do so]. The responsibility is in the licensee's hands to notif= y the FCC when they are no longer broadcasting and the reasons for doing so= ."

This illustrates just how badly the FCC is out of touc= h with the real world. Their "reality" is defined by the paperwork that MS = Communications files with them on a regular basis... not the "ground truth"= that the spectrum that MS Communications has "locked up" has not seen any = productive use since it was granted by the FCC.

The New America = Foundation filing is troubling. The filing does an excellent job of documen= ting the "grab everything you ca= n" mentality of the television broadcasters in the conversion to digital te= levision broadcasting. (NAF's Jim Snider was the first to inform me that, i= n blatant contrast to the original plan for digital broadcasting, the telev= ision broadcasters will now be allowed to retain television channels 2-13.)= Simply, the broadcasters are very effectively Gaming the FCC system; all but inevitable given the broadcast= er's legal prowess and the FCC's "paperwork is reality" environment. Such i= n-depth research is commendable, and a demonstrable reason to support the w= ork of the New America Foundation.

The conclusion that I reach f= rom the MS Communications story and the NAF Filing (after a second, careful reading) is that the activities= aren't a "smoking gun" of deliberately trying to sabotage the potential li= cense-exempt use of television broadcast spectrum.

Sadly, the MS= Communications story, in a microcosm, is the real story, writ large of the FCC's spectrum allocation polic= ies over the last century. Overall, the radio frequency spectrum is vastly = underutilized. Every Hertz per second per square mile that is not used is l= ost forever. Unlike the environment in the past century that the FCC was de= signed to administer, we now have technologies that can make efficient, sha= red, non-interfering use of all the available spectrum... but most companie= s are afraid to try to do so, at least in the US. Such innovation will inev= itably be driven to developing countries where an "MS Communications, aided= and abetted by the FCC" mentality doesn't (yet) exist.

My impre= ssions of the current leanings of the FCC in permitting license-exempt use = of television broadcast spectrum involves the use of an embedded GPS receiv= er and a centrally-maintained, accessed-by-every-device database of "don't = transmit on "this" channel if you're located "here". The MS Communications = example nicely illustrates why such a model ultimately unworkable, or at be= st, not the most efficient approach.

This is exactly why, in my = in-person testimony (PDF, you'll have to search) to the FCC at the August 9, 2002 Spectrum Policy Task Force hearing, I recomm= ended a "ground truth" technique for determining where there was available = "white space" in a given area's actual<= /span> use of television broadcast spectrum.

(Begin transcript)<= br />
One of the things that Chair= man Powell said this morning really struck me. He would really like to hear= concrete proposals for how we get to the ideal of more of a spectrum commo= ns model, flexible use and away from the private ownership model.

One thing that strikes me is that Mr. Tawil stated that they had gone dow= n to using 288 megahertz of TV spectrum and what frustrates a lot of the te= chies and I've watched the 2.4 gigahertz thing band evolve very incredibly,= long-range, very high bandwidth, many users, very dense deployments. They'= re making all that work in 83 megahertz of spectrum with some really onerou= s rules like very low power and they're making it work in that little chunk= of spectrum in a very bad part of the spectrum for things like tree foliag= e.

The TV broadcasters have a total of 288 megahertz of spectrum= available in the prime part of the spectrum and yet in any market, there's= a handful of those channels that at most that are in use, 20. I'll be char= itable and say 30. Why not evolve a model that lets a radio use the channel= s that are not being used for broadcasting and the radio has got to have a = very specific limitation that it listens on a particular channel and if it = hears TV broadcasting it just positively locks that up. There's no possibil= ity of override. The radio just cannot go there if it hears a TV broadcast.=

But the 75 percent of the other channels that aren't in use, th= at's legal, and it listens on a periodic basis every 10 minutes and that wi= ll encompass the ability to hear low powered TV stations, even somebody who= 's using one of these little rabbit transmitters that transmit on Channel 3= or 4 inside a house, it wouldn't interfere with 6 those. That's a way to g= et -- that's a way to at least start the transition into a more flexible us= e model. It's frustrating to hear the idea that that broadcast spectrum can= 't go there, no way, no how.

(End transcript)

= It seems to me to be a very simple equation - if the television broadcast s= pectrum is actually in use for t= he originally licensed purpose - television broadcasting, then license-exem= pt use of that channel isn't all= owed. "In use" is easily determined by the embedding of the essential eleme= nts of a television tuner - if an analog or digital television transmission= is decoded, that's "in use" as far as the license-exempt radio is concerne= d, which will then go on to use another channel that isn't in use.

Steve Stroh

This article is Copyright =C2=A9 2005 by St= eve Stroh

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Posted by Steve= Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 2/25/2005 0= 9:00:00 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Thu Mar 3 15:37:08 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j23Lb8wI005888 for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:37:08 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j23Lb7bp005879 for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:37:07 -0600 Received: from bla31.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.213]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B7E21FD546 for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:52:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <25678644.1109886738500.JavaMail.root@bla31.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:52:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] Craig Barrett: WiMAX The Solution For Half-assed US Broadband Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 My compliments to vnunet= .com (via Google News Alerts) and a great article, very fresh from the In= tel Developer Forum which captures some real "flavor" of a speech by ou= tgoing Intel CEO Craig Barrett.

Barrett vented some spleen regar= ding WiMAX. From the vnunet article:

Barrett also levelled his ire at governments for holding up WiMax d= eployment. Intel and others are currently negotiating for spectrum rights a= round the world to run WiMax, which allows wide area wireless broadband int= ernet access.

"I believe in the Hippocratic Oath for government:= first do no harm. That means sorting out spectrum allocation, fostering R&= D and creating an environment to let business function," he said.

"[WiMax] is the solution to the 'last mile' broadband issue. It will get = us out of the half-assed broadband situation we're in today. 1Mbps to 2Mbps= is not broadband; 50Mbps is."


Steve Stroh
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Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 3/3/2005 01:50:00 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Thu Mar 3 17:50:06 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j23No6Kl009808 for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:50:06 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j23No6bp009803 for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:50:06 -0600 Received: from bla31.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.213]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B5EC1FD4EF for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:05:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9175705.1109894717303.JavaMail.root@bla31.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:05:17 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] Sprint 2.5 - 2.69 GHz Spectrum Lease To Clearwire? Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 In an unattributed story, Sprint-Clearwire alliance on the cards, forcing an RBOC wireless response= dated February 24, 2005, Rethink Research Associates' Wireless Watch m= ade this very interesting statement:

We have it from at least three = reliable sources that Sprint and Clearwire are in negotiations with = a view to a network sharing agreement in 2.5GHz spectrum. This would enable= Clearwire to create its national system more rapidly and start generating = revenue, while leaving Sprint-Nextel to attend to their parallel EV-DO proj= ects and to making a success of their merger. Most importantly, the resulti= ng WiMAX network would mount a serious challenge to Sprint=C2=92s chief riv= als. In the first instance, it would create an alternative source of broadb= and services to the Regional Bell Operators (RBOCs =C2=96 BellSouth, SBC, V= erizon and Qwest). These might be under the Clearwire brand or that of a th= ird party, but either way, a single assault on the Bells by MMDS spectrum h= olders would be more devastating than a divided challenge from separate Spr= int and Clearwire efforts.

In a February 14, 2005 posting here - WiMAX Networ= king News, Near Miss On Sprint BWIA Analysis, I made much the same poin= t, (though I was careful to label my prediction as a "guess" and Wireless W= atch claims sources. Hmmm... perhaps I'm a "source".)

My admirat= ion for the depth of knowledge in Wireless Watch rose when I read this tell= ing point - quite correct, but glossed over by everyone else:

One issue is that most of the spectrum he= ld by the RBOCs is in 2.3GHz, rather than 2.5GHz. The latter is, at this st= age, the only sub-3GHz band for which there will be an official WiMAX profi= le with certified equipment. This could well change, and a 2.3GHz profile r= ise up the agenda at the WiMAX Forum, should the RBOCs show sufficient inte= rest, but in the mean time, the telcos would be stuck with proprietary equi= pment =C2=96 or WiMAX gear that had been tweaked for the 2.3GHz band =C2=96= so losing the benefits of pricing and vendor choice that comes with certif= ied standards.

This was one of the factors I alluded to i= n my article that would discourage the 2.3 GHz licensees from making use of= their spectrum. I agree with the author - if Sprint/Nextel/Clearwire happe= ns, the owners of 2.3 GHz spectrum will exert enormous pressure on the WiMA= X Forum for quick creation and for a fourth WiMAX "Profile" to be 2.3 GHz (= with provisions for the patchwork US 2.3 GHz bandplan). The promised 700 MH= z WiMAX Profile will likely be pushed into Priority #5.

As I kep= t reading, my admiration increased:

However, in a fight to defend the kingdom against Sprint and Clearw= ire, equipment pricing would be less important than the ability to deliver = services effectively, and here 2.3GHz would be very interesting. Verizon an= d BellSouth acquired this spectrum, also known as WCS (Wireless Communicati= ons Service), in auctions in 1997 and have extensive holdings in their own = territories. SBC also gains a large amount through its acquisition of WCS h= older AT&T, with the fourth major owner being Metricom.

= Right on again! (I certainly don't mean for my comments to sound condescend= ing.) Verizon (telco Verizon, not Verizon Wireless if memory serves) has ex= tensive 2.3 GHz spectrum which they originally intended to potentially supl= ement problematic DSL deployment. Ditto BellSouth and SBC (partners in Cing= ular Wireless). In fourth place for amount of 2.3 GHz licenses... Metricom.= Metricom?!?!?! As in radios-mou= nted-on-street lights, long-out-= of-business Metricom?!?!? Yes.
The assets of Metricom's Ricochet service are= now owned by Terabeam Wireless, a= nd Ricochet service has been revived in two markets - without the use of the Metricom 2.3 GHz spectrum. As I = understand the story, the Metricom creditors have kept Metricom on corporat= e life support solely to retain the 2.3 GHz licenses in hopes that 2.3 GHz = licenses would ultimately be worth a lot more than during the Metricom bank= ruptcy hearings. Maybe their faith will be rewarded (to at least some exten= t).

(My Thanks to Sam Churchill of www.dailywireless.org for highlighting the Wireless Watch = story (McCaw Profile & WCS; perma= link not yet available).


By Steve Stroh

This ar= ticle Copyright =C2=A9 2005 by Steve Stroh (except for indicated excerpts = from Rethink Research Associates Wireless Watch)

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Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wirele= ss Internet Access at 3/3/2005 02:38:00 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Tue Mar 8 19:14:27 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j291ERdT017052 for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:14:27 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j291EQbp017048 for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:14:26 -0600 Received: from bla25.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.213]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52E20195ED for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 17:37:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <14800704.1110331791322.JavaMail.root@bla25.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 17:37:57 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] Students Complain About [BWIA] Radios That Cost $125 (And Well They Should!) Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20

A post on one of the many mailing lists tha= t I monitor was just so out-of-synch with what the most clueful Broadband W= ireless Internet Access Service Providers are doing that it just stopped me= cold... and really begged comment. Here's the relevant excerpt:

Our [local college] students complain = about radios that cost $125.

The context of the comment i= s that the (considerably greater than $125) cost of (proprietary) 902-928 M= Hz Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) devices are too expensive for customers= to be willing to pay for up front.

But students not wanting to pay a paltry $125 for a radio to receive Internet access??? Bing! Reality che= ck time. Those students are absolutely<= /span> right to balk. There is absolutely no reason why they should be asked to pay anything for a radio to connect to a BWIA network. The = reason is that they have (laptops) or can get and install very inexpensive = Wi-Fi gear.

I've mentioned this before in numerous talks and pre= sentations, and in at least one previous article. What that= Service Provider should be doing is to use his existing BWIA network as ba= ckhaul to lots of well-placed outdoor, high-power, directionally-focused Wi= -Fi Access Points near the concentrations of students. The photo at right i= s from a campground installation - you quickly get the point on how relativ= ely simple it is to "distribute" Wi-Fi outdoors as long as you keep the lin= k relatively short between the Wi-Fi users and the Access Point. The equipm= ent is smartBridges; you'll find a link to them in the new BWIA Vendors sidebar on the right side of the page= as you scroll down.

There are many, many service providers that= have very profitably deployed such a hybrid infrastructure - use Wi-Fi whe= re it makes sense - where it can be highly localized and you can take advan= tage of higher power, more sensitive receiver, and directional antennas on = an outdoor Access Point. Use (much!) better-than-Wi-Fi backhaul to provide = bandwidth to that Access Point... or (shudder) use DSL or T-1.

W= hile it's happening a lot, you won't find it readily confessed by those tha= t are doing it as I described... likely just because there's no point in "s= martening up" the competition.


By Steve Stroh

T= his article is Copyright =C2=A9 2004 by Steve Stroh.

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Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wi= reless Internet Access at 3/8/2005 05:00:00 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Thu Mar 10 09:00:54 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2AF0sGR027007 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:00:54 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2AF0rbp027003 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:00:53 -0600 Received: from bla33.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.213]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5B8919636 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:24:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <33378091.1110467788795.JavaMail.root@bla33.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:24:38 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] One TowerStream Customer Story - Increase Connection To 45 Mbps Overnight Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Router Failure Cut= s Internet to [Bentley College] Campus

(You'll probably have= some difficulty accessing the story - I saw it via Google News Alerts whic= h got me past the registration, but you probably won't be so lucky.)
<= br />The linked story describes the situation Bentley College (BC), located in the Boston area, found themselv= es in last weekend when they lost their primary Internet connection with Le= vel 3 Communications due to a failed router. BC's contract with Level 3 spe= cified next business day restoration, so Level 3 committed to resolve the p= roblem by Tuesday, at which point BC would have been without Internet acces= s for more than 48 hours. But the BC IT staff had a backup plan - TowerStream. Within a day, TowerStream= had BC back online with a connection that was ~20 Mbps, which proved to be= inadequate (what's really surprising was that BC was "getting by" with a "= mere" 45 Mbps connection).

So, something remarkable (for the mai= nstream telecom industry, like Level 3, but routine for TowerStream) happen= ed. Excerpt from the BC Vanguar= d story linked above:

In= ternet service was up and running at Bentley by Saturday evening, although = only outbound traffic from campus was working. Some services such as inboun= d e-mail and the Ruckus network were still unavailable, however, with the e= -mails being held in queue until the Level 3 router was back in commission.=

Students were notified of the problem on Saturday evening, and = were advised to limit their Internet usage to homework only, as the bandwid= th being used by TowerStream was only half of the 45 megabytes usually prov= ided by the Level 3 router. However, students apparently did not heed this = request, so the bandwidth from TowerStream was expanded to 45MB on Sunday m= orning.

Link upgrade to 45 Mbps overnight... on top of a one (weekend) day installation o= f the link in the first place. Ah, the wonders of Broadband Wireless Intern= et Access, as implemented by a highly clueful Broadband Wireless Internet A= ccess Service Provider that seems to like helping customers rather than the= "service with a snarl" attitude so prevalent with telecom service provider= s like Level 3 (who, I concede, was apparently within their contractual res= ponsibilities.)

It's my guess that the TowerStream sales rep who= would have followed up with Bentley College this week had a pretty easy ti= me getting an appointment to discuss TowerStream's 100 Mbps (and faster) co= nnectivity options.


By Steve Stroh

Except for e= xcerpts from the Bentley College Vanguard, this article is Copyright =C2=A9= 2005 by Steve Stroh

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Post= ed by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 3/10/20= 05 07:00:00 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Mon Mar 14 11:01:49 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2EH1nCC023446 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:01:49 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2EH1lbp023442 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:01:48 -0600 Received: from bla110.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D2DF19607 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:25:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <26854007.1110820657058.JavaMail.root@bla110.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:25:57 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] BWIA Content At Freedom To Connect Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 While it probably sounds presumptuous, I now officially endorse an= d recommend David Isenberg's Freedom To Connect conference that will be held March 30-31, 2005 in W= ashington, DC.

My original concerns are no longer= valid. As the agenda and speaker list has continued to fill out in the= last few months, it became apparent that Isenberg, true to his word, has i= ncluded significant wireless content. Such as:
  • Dewayne Hendricks,= Dandin Group - short talk (Hendricks is legendary in BWIA)
  • = Dr. Robert Pepper, FCC - What's Incumbent upon Incumbents? panel (Pepper re= ally, really gets it about BWIA at the FCC)
  • Dianah Neff, CIO= of Philadelphia - Building Connected Communities panel (Neff is at the cen= ter of Philadelphia's plan to deploy citywide Wi-Fi coverage)
    • Esme Vos, MuniWireless.com - Building Connected Communities panel (Vos is= the information nexus of the growing trend of Municipal [Broadband] Wirele= ss systems)
  • J.H. Snider, New America Foundation - (moderator= ) Building Connected Communities panel (NAF is the only Washington DC think= tank that really understands license-exempt spectrum issues)
    • Even with the wireless content, Freedom To Connect isn't anything resemb= ling a wireless conference... so why am I endorsing and recommending it? Tw= o reasons. The first is Isenberg himself... he is a human catalyst, attract= ing SMART people from all= over the world. Isenberg's first public conference - WTF 2004 was a rousing success... more of a three day grad= uate school seminar on "the bigger picture" of telecommunications and socie= ty than a conventional conference. F2C is focused sharper still on the crit= ical and rapidly-evolving policy issues of a telecommunications system grou= nded in the technology, economics, and social implications of this century, not the last.

    The = second reason I'm endorsing F2C is that it will be an excellent conference = where the focus will be on BWIA as an enabling technology... not the techno= logy-in-a-vacuum approach that most BWIA conferences take. It sounds obviou= s, but for too many it's not... BWIA is, in the end, merely a pipe to deliv= er information. F2C will discuss what information will ultimately be allowed to be delivered by Broadband s= ystems... and that bigger picture perspective really needs to be understood= by those who fight the good fight to make Broadband widely available and a= ffordable.

    A personal note - my endorsement and recommendation also come, in part, as a result of= an epiphany I had very recently regarding Isenberg and his view of Broadba= nd Wireless Internet Access. While I'm used to debating and discussing BWIA= in excruciating detail (you can ask my remaining friends), I've never been= able to engage Isenberg in such discussions, except for the first time we = met a few years ago. As a result, I didn't credit Isenberg with quite "gett= ing it" about BWIA and its significance. That was an egregious error on my = part. I now realize that Isenberg does = indeed get it about BWIA and especially license-exempt BWIA. He got = BWIA thoroughly; he did his own analysis of BWIA, pronounced it good, worki= ng-just-fine, and significant. He saw no need to discuss the minutiae of BW= IA vendors or technologies any more than it was necessary to discuss vendor= s or technologies of Fiber To The Premises (FTTP) systems to thoroughly gra= sp their implications. Having learned as much as he needed to incorporate i= nto his (very) big picture perspective, Isenberg moved on to the bigger iss= ues that really required his personal attention... like telecommunications = policy.

    Isenberg is one of those rare people that operates sever= al levels above, and ahead, of the rest of us... but tries to make himself = and his thoughts accessible. If for no other reason than that, you should t= ry to attend F2C... and = learn. I will be attending F2C to do just that... learn.


    S= teve Stroh

    This article is Copyright =C2=A9 2005 by Steve Stroh =

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    Posted by Steve Stroh to = Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 3/14/2005 08:00:00 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Mon Mar 14 13:48:44 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2EJmhol028461 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:48:44 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2EJmhbp028457 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:48:43 -0600 Received: from bla110.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19B481FD558 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:04:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <13700657.1110830682100.JavaMail.root@bla110.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:04:42 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] WiMAX Insider's Club Forms - Airspan, Alvarion, Redline Commence WiMAX Testing Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Airspan Communications= , Alvarion, and Redline Communications jointly announced that th= ey have begun pr= ivate interoperability testing of their respective WiMAX products in advance of the official WiMAX comp= atibility testing which will begin in July, 2005. The companies will first = test Physical (PHY) layer compatibility followed by Media Access Control (M= AC) layer compatibility.

    This is quite a coup, notably for Redli= ne Communications as the smallest member of the trio, but the one with the = earliest, and from all appearances, dee= pest commitment to WiMAX. Redline Communications was first to announ= ce a product that claimed compliance with 802.16a, which was superseded= by 802.16-2004 (for which Redline was also first to announce a 802.16-= 2004 product).


    By Steve Stroh

    This article is C= opyright =C2=A9 2005 by Steve Stroh.

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    Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Ac= cess at 3/14/2005 11:30:00 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Mon Mar 14 15:00:54 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2EL0smc030383 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:00:54 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2EL0sbp030379 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:00:54 -0600 Received: from bla110.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDF2019596 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:25:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <13817293.1110835013361.JavaMail.root@bla110.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:25:13 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] BelAir Networks (Kind Of) Announces Wireless Telephony Compatibility Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 BelA= ir Networks issued a press release today that is remarkably long on buzz (which get= s special editorial attention this week in many venues because of the CTIA conference) but short on speci= fics.

    BelAir seems to claim that they will eventually update the= ir products to accommodate a new type of "access" radio module that will pr= ovide wireless telephony capability in addition to Wi-Fi (current) and WiMA= X (intermediate future). But no dates... no specifics on which wireless tel= ephony standards (GSM? CDMA? 1xEV-DO?)... no technical details at all.

    What's interesting in this announcement is what's not stated. It's v= ery hard for a startup to try to elbow their way into specialized niches fo= r wireless telephony infrastructure - ask RadioFrame Networks who has been trying for several years now to = do much the same thing as BelAir plans to do, but selling "interior wireles= s infrastructure" systems. BelAir's recent partne= rship with Lucent Technologies makes this a much more credible announce= ment, and this announcement goes a long way towards explaining (very large)= Lucent's interest in (comparatively small) BelAir Networks.

    Wha= t's also interesting is that BelAir Networks backhaul is "pure IP"... no ac= commodation for the more usual T-1 infrastructure that wireless telephony c= ompanies hold so dear.

    It will be interesting to see when/if suc= h a product actually emerges. Despite the comfort factor of Lucent Technolo= gies being a distribution partner, the "discomfort factor" of IP-only backh= aul and "mesh distribution" may well be a bit too much for typical wireless= telephony carriers. My bet is that Voice Over Internet Telephony Over Wi-F= i (VOIP/Wi-Fi) will be a more fertile market; it's happening already.


    By= Steve Stroh

    This article is Copyright =C2=A9 2005 by Steve Stro= h

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    Posted by Steve Stroh t= o Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 3/14/2005 12:30:00 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Mon Mar 21 06:16:32 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2LCGWrb008294 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:16:32 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2LCGVbp008290 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:16:31 -0600 Received: from bla54.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BA921FD4C9 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 04:32:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20649295.1111408369436.JavaMail.root@bla54.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 04:32:49 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] At WISPCON VII, Washington, DC Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 I'm attending WISPCON VII in the Wash= ington, DC area on Monday, March 21st and Tuesday, March 22nd. Chairwoman L= ynn Kline has done her usual professional job in arranging a great venue fo= r WISPCON. The venue is the Bolger= Center, the United States Postal Service's national training center. T= here are some interesting aspects to being here, like scanning through the = television channels late at night and finding "USPS TV" discussing the fine= r points of USPS marketing campaigns and orientation on the new automated, = self-serve USPS Postal Centers.

    While he won't be attending WISP= CON VII due to his new duties at the FCC, Dr. Robert Pepper attended the in= formal meet and greet Sunday night. Andrew Kreig, President of WCAI was at = the meet and greet also. It was good to see them both and catch up a bit wi= th them.

    I'll be doing several presentations:
    Monday @ 9:00= AM - WiMAX and the License-exempt Wait
    Monday @ 11:15 AM - Mesh Netwo= rking's Second Chance - The Return of Mesh
    Tuesday @ 10:00 AM - Steve = Stroh's FOCUS on the WISP Industry

    A real bonus for this trip is= that on Wednesday morning I'll be doing Wireless Tech Radio from the studio with Host Jim Sutton - = 10:00 Eastern.

    I wish I had more time for some visits to some pe= ople here in the DC area that I really should check in with, but circumstan= ces didn't permit that luxury; perhaps next week.


    By Steve Stroh

    This a= rticle is copyright 2005 by Steve Stroh

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    Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Acce= ss at 3/21/2005 04:00:00 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Wed Mar 30 22:23:42 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2V4NgTp026765 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:23:42 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2V4Nfbp026761 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:23:42 -0600 Received: from bla5.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95631FD588 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:40:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4016304.1112244051880.JavaMail.root@bla5.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:40:51 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access] Attending Freedom To Connect March 30-31, 2005 Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 I'm attending the Freed= om To Connect conference Wednesday March 30 and Thursday March 31 this = week in the Washington DC area (Silver Spring, Maryland.)

    The F2= C page doesn't mention Wirele= ss Tech Radio by name, but that's who is providing streaming audio of t= he entire conference, with Jim Sutton so ably manning the PC to make the st= reaming possible.

    As with all Isenberg conferences, attending is= stretching me intellectually in ways I could not have imagined. More later= when I can digest things a bit, and I have a more stable response from Blo= gger.com, which has been terribly intermittent for the last 36 hours.
    =
    But I will say this... Martin Geddes is right - F2C and other Isenberg confere= nces is like taking the red pill.

    <= br />Steve Stroh

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    Posted b= y Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access at 3/30= /2005 08:30:00 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Thu May 26 15:45:26 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4QKjQRe001760 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 15:45:26 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4QKjQMq001755 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 15:45:26 -0500 Received: from bla164.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A1851FD51D for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 13:49:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2206034.1117140546560.JavaMail.root@bla164.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 13:49:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] Nokia Introduces Web Browser Tablet - With Wi-Fi Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 I'm really surprised at how matter-of-factly the release of the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet<= /a> is being received. I think the 770 is very big news.




    There are a number of e= lements to the 770 that I think are highly significant... some of which hav= e nothing whatsoever to do with the actual product.

    • Th= e 770 is from Nokia, a company o= f which, until now, all of its w= ireless-related products involved wireless telephony (except for a tepid Wi= -Fi product line and the late, and very lamented Rooftop Broadband Wireless= Mesh product line).
    • The 770 uses Wi-Fi (and Bluetooth) for its = wireless communications link instead of wireless telephony. I think there i= s an implied message here from one of the leading vendors in the wireless t= elephony industry - Wi-Fi is rapidly gaining ground with consumers.
      • =
    • The 770 is a "pure" Internet device. Essentially a handheld browser with some additional capabiliti= es. No walled gardens... just Wi-Fi to the Internet using a via a web brows= er.
    • The 770 is a product where the wireless telephony companies = cannot impose themselves between Nokia and consumers and non-wireless retai= lers; it can be sold over-the-counter at any number of stores without appro= val, buy-in, and the "we don't want a product that lets our customer bypass= us to load content without paying us for the privilege" attitude of wirele= ss telephony companies.
    • It's the right form factor... small, handhe= ld, light instead of big and hefty. That translates to much greater overall= usability and better battery life and ultimately, lower cost.
      • =
    The 770 plays to Nokia's strengths. What's been really lacking in p= ortable Wi-Fi appliances is the fit, finish, and usability that wireless te= lephony vendors like Nokia have refined with their collective experience. F= or example, batteries... Nokia has the battery issue handled. Nokia batteri= es have good talk times, are removable, and they have an established distri= bution chain for consumers to buy new batteries when required.

    T= o me, the most logical places for the 770 will be used is places in the hom= e like near the television. How many times have you seen been watching tele= vision and seen something that you wanted to look up (but didn't want to ge= t up for, and using a laptop for such things was just overkill)? How about = the kitchen? The bedroom (no, not for t= hat... for checking email, stock prices, a last look at the headline= s before bedding down for the night... things like that.)

    It seems to me like the 770 is an idea= l device for using with Google's services like a personalized Google News a= nd Gmail, things that push most of the processing to the back-end and don't= require a lot of user input other than clicks on the screen with a stylus = or a thumb cursor control (which looks inspired by handheld gaming design).=

    Assuming that the 770 does actually live up to these expectatio= ns (I'm in the queue for a review unit when they become available in a few = months), I think Nokia will have a real winner on their hands.

    T= hen again... this assumes that the 770's reception isn't usurped by Sony ra= pidly evolving the PlayStation Portable by leveraging its Wi-Fi capabilitie= s and coming out with good web browser software.


    By Steve = Stroh

    This article is Copyright =C2=A9 2005 by Steve Stroh



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    Posted by Steve Stroh to     Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX at 5/26/2005 09:55:00 = AM From steve@stevestroh.net Thu Jul 21 12:16:24 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6LHGOq2012051 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:16:24 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6LHGNe0012047 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:16:23 -0500 Received: from bla72.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A9F91965D for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:24:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <32843101.1121966646037.JavaMail.root@bla72.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:24:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 7/21/2005 10:23:29 AM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Terabeam Acquires Proxim Assets


    Terabeam Wireless has apparently outbid Moseley, $28 million versus $21 million= , for the purchase of the assets of Proxi= m.

    For what it's worth, I think that Proxim had a decent cha= nce at survival under Moseley, which has done reasonably well by other Broa= dband Wireless product lines that they have acquired.

    But nothin= g that I have observed of Terabeam Wireless suggests that it can rise to th= e challenge of stabilizing and growing the Proxim product line.

    = Enterprises, the primary customers of Proxim's Wireless Local Area Network = (WLAN) products demand high-level support. Telecommunications Service Provi= ders (SPs), the primary customers of Proxim's Broadband Wireless products a= lso demand high-level support. Both customer bases require substantial reso= urces to be allocated to provide ongoing product and technical support. Fro= m what I have observed of Terabeam with its other acquired product lines, t= here is nothing to suggest that Terabeam is likely develop within a short t= ime the required support for the Proxim products to remain viable in the mi= nds of their customer bases.

    Not to mention the enormous expendi= tures necessary to develop new product lines - MIMO in WLANs, WiMAX in Broa= dband Wireless, for example that Terabeam does not seem to have the require= d capital for.

    As part of the Proxim acquisition, Terabeam Wirel= ess will be relocating its corporate headquarters to Proxim's facilities in= San Jose, California.

    Did Terbeam simply want to acquire the Pr= oxim brand? It seems tarnished beyond repair as Proxim has slipped further = and further behind in comparison to its competition.

    Did Terabea= m want Proxim's Intellectual Property (IP)? Perhaps, but one of the things = that sent Proxim into bankruptcy was losing a major patent fight. Not to me= ntion that it takes a lot of money and time to successfully litigate patent= s.

    One minor synergy is that Terabeam was ostensibly developing = its own WiMAX product that it can now shelve in favor of Proxim's WiMAX wor= k, including Proxim's relationship with Intel to co-develop a WiMAX referen= ce design for customer premise equipment.

    Proxim Press Rel= ease

    Terabeam Wireless Press Release

    Broadband Wi= reless Business story

    (I first saw this story on DailyWireless.org.)


    By Steve Stroh

    This article is Copyright © 2005 by= Steve Stroh


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    Posted= by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX at = 7/21/2005 10:23:29 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Fri Jul 22 18:12:43 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6MNChQE001188 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:12:43 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6MNCge0001182 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:12:43 -0500 Received: from bla150.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 143371FD502 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:22:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <31605452.1122074421030.JavaMail.root@bla150.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:22:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 7/22/2005 04:19:39 PM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 New 802.11 Mesh Organization Formed


    Led by Nortel N= etworks, the Wi-Mesh Alliance has cr= eated a multi-company proposal for t= he 802.11 "Task Group S" (TGs) that is charged with developing a standardiz= ed implementation of mesh networking for Wireless Local Area Networks that = are based on the IEEE 802.11 WLAN standard.

    While Wireless Mesh = Networking is one of the hottest trends in Broadband Wireless Internet Acce= ss... the mesh technologies implemented to date are widely disparate, propr= ietary, and thus non-interoperable. It makes complete sense to try to devel= op a standard for 802.11 mesh. (The IEEE standards numbering system allocat= es "suffixes" in order of proposal, thus "802.11m" was already spoken for; = it's a maintenance update for 802.11.)

    Some background on 802.11= Task Group S (from the Quick Guide To IEEE 802.11 WG & Ac= tivities):

    Scope of Project

    To develop an = IEEE 802.11 Extended Service Set (ESS) Mesh* with an IEEE 802.11 Wireless D= istribution System (WDS) using the IEEE 802.11 MAC/PHY layers that supports= both broadcast/multicast and unicast delivery over self-configuring multi-= hop topologies.

    Purpose of Project

    To provide = a protocol for auto-configuring paths between APs over self-configuring mul= ti-hop topologies in a WDS to support both broadcast/multicast and unicast = traffic in an ESS Mesh using the four-address frame format or an extension.=
    Status =09 Active

    Current members of Wi-Mesh Alliance are:=

    No= tably absent from such an "Alliance of diverse industry leaders" are a numb= er of companies that are actively and successfully deploying WLAN Mesh, suc= h as Strix Systems, SkyPilot Networks, BelAir Networks and Tr= opos Networks. But they may well be participating independently with 80= 2.11s (a request for information on companies represented in 802.11s didn't= receive a reply in time for this article.)

    One reason is that = there is another group working within 802.11s, as this excerpt from a PCWor= ld.com article IEEE Starts Weaving Mesh Network Standard expl= ains: "Another major proposal is from a group called SEEMesh (Simple, Effic= ient and Extensible Mesh), which includes heavy hitters such as Intel, Texa= s Instruments, Nokia, Motorola, and mesh network vendor Firetide, as well a= s Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo." (I was unable to find any definitiv= e information on SEEMesh other than an internetnews.com article See Mesh? SEEMesh= Proposed; the most likely web page for SEEMesh is not yet populated wi= th any information.)

    Then again, neither of these groups include= some groups and companies that have made 802.11-based Wireless Mesh Networ= king very real. Despite their expertise, it doesn't seem likely that they'r= e represented in the 802.11s discussions at all:



    Reference:

    Nortel Networks Press Release on Wi-Mesh Alliance

    Wi-Fi Planet articl= e - Nortel = Pushes Mesh Standard Proposal on Wi-Mesh Alliance

    DeWayne-Net makes a= very salient point... no chipset vendors represented in Wi-Mesh Alliance! = Oops!



    Note: Research for this article reminde= d me that listings of Broadband Wireless Mesh vendors is woefully under-rep= resented in the Vendors section of my B= roadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX weblog (this weblog). I made = a few updates concurrent with this article, and I will be making the listin= g of Mesh vendors much more complete in the next few days. A brief r= eminder - if you're viewing this article via RSS/ATOM, there's a lot of sol= id reference information on Broadband W= ireless Internet Access / WiMAX weblog (along with ads that I've tried = mightily to keep relevant to the subject of BWIA).

    (Kudos to Ran= chero Software's MarsEdit web= log editor. It nearly rocks in v1.0.)



    =

    By Steve Stroh

    This article is Copyright © 2005= by Steve Stroh.


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    Po= sted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX at 7/22/2005 04:19:39 P= M From steve@stevestroh.net Mon Jul 25 13:35:07 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6PIZ75J017761 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:35:07 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6PIZ6e0017757 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:35:06 -0500 Received: from bla166.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8646B1FD51B for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:45:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <16931514.1122316988673.JavaMail.root@bla166.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:45:24 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 7/25/2005 11:42:34 AM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20
    Yet Another "Some Day, Mobile Broadband Wireless Will Be Pretty Co= ol" Article


    Sigh... A Forbes.com article by Gene J. Ko= prowski of UPI - Wireless World: Mobile WiMax coming soon, posits that Mobile Bro= adband Wireless will be here Real Soon Now.

    It's just maddening = at times to try to get the point across that what's lacking for Mobile Broa= dband Wireless Internet Access isn't the technology for Mobile Broad= band Wireless Internet Access... what is really lacking for Mobile B= roadband Wireless Internet Access are the deployments of that existi= ng technology.

    All of these system vendors have field-proven Mob= ile Broadband Wireless Systems shipping now - present day (and this = isn't an exhaustive list; for one thing I'm not listing the many Municipal = Wi-Fi system vendors):

    • Alvarion

    • ArrayComm
      • <= br />
    • Flarion Technologies

    • IPWireless

    • Motoro= la (MOTOMESH, formerly MeshNetworks)

    • NextNet Wireless
    • Terabeam Wireless (Ricochet, formerly Metricom)

    • WaveRi= der Communications

    • Wi-LAN


    (Links to thes= e system vendors are in the right column of the Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX weblog)

    = Not to mention that the wireless telephony companies are now starting to of= fer pretty decent Mobile Broadband Wireless services in a number of cities.= Verizon's there now, Cingular's coming along, Sprint will be a contender b= y the end of 2005, and T-Mobile has finally announced that they're going to= offer Broadband services.

    Thus... it's hardly the case that the= world is waiting for Mobile WiMAX before Mobile Broadband Wireless Interne= t Access systems can be deployed (and the savviest Service Providers haven'= t, in fact, waited...)



    By Steve Stroh

    Cop= yright © 2005 by Steve Stroh.


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    Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Int= ernet Access / WiMAX at 7/25/2005 11:42:34 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Tue Jul 26 13:33:17 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6QIXH9w032030 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:33:17 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6QIXGe0032026 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:33:17 -0500 Received: from bla71.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5D48196F7 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:41:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <24302724.1122403286803.JavaMail.root@bla71.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:41:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 7/26/2005 11:40:39 AM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Cell Phone Tower Search Uses FCC Database and Google Maps

    Om Malik spotted a real gem in Mobiledia's Cell Phone Tower Search maps th= e raw data from the FCC's tower database (which includes latitude/longitude= ) into Google Maps to display locations of towers. It also provides a forum= for individuals to comment on coverage by carrier by ZIP code.

    = Unfortunately, it isn't all that useful. As the site says:

    "Information is compiled from the FCC, and may not be all the towers i= n the area. Carriers are not known for 3rd party towers."

    Bo= th parts of that statement are accurate from a brief check where I live - = Woodinville, WA (immediately North of Redmond in the Seattle metro area.) R= egarding "... may not be all the towers in the area..." there are tw= o major monopole towers that aren't shown (or, if they are shown, they're n= ot on the map anywhere near where they ought to be...). Regarding "Carri= ers are not known for 3rd party towers", that's very true, and from wha= t I understand, all wireless telephony companies have now sold off t= heir tower assets to third party companies like American Tower and Crown C= astle, and it's tough to divine what equipment may be on any given tower (c= ould include public safety and commercial two way radio, Broadband Wireless= Internet Access service providers... potentially, just about anything that= radiates RF and justifies the price of being on a tower.

    What w= ould really be cool for Cell Phone Tower Search is if they're able to combi= ne the two parts of this resource so that the user comments about poor and = good coverage could also be mapped. It would take some work to insur= e that the resulting graphics were reasonably accurate and fair - prevent "= gaming" by someone with a real grudge, age out old reports, indicate how ma= ny people (one, or many reports) have confirmed (or refuted) good or bad co= verage in a given area.

    A similar resource would also be a great= tool for Broadband Wireless Internet Acccess (BWIA) Service Providers. The= biggest ones - Clearwire, NextWeb, TowerStream have enough resources to ef= fectively define their coverage area to potential customers. But smaller BW= IA SPs would benefit enormously from a non-partisan* listing of BWIA SP cov= erage. WISP Directory is non = partisan and thus open to all, but it's not (yet... Kory?) "Google Maps-ena= bled like what Mobiledia has done for cell phones.

    * Here's my l= ist of those that purport to list areas served by BWIA or at least list BWI= A SPs:
    • Broadband Wirele= ss Exchange (from my observations, badly incomplete)
    • FCC (All Broadband Service Providers are requir= ed to file reports to the FCC)
    • MuniWireless.Com (Fantastic resource, but as the name impl= ies, the only systems listed are those that are municipal-scale deployments= )
    • Part-15.Org (lists only P= art-15.Org member companies)
    • Wirel= ess Communications Association Intl. (WCA) (lists only WCAI member comp= anies)
    • Wireless Internet Access S= ervice Providers Assoc. (WISPA) (lists only WISPA member companies)



      By Steve Stroh

      This article is Copyright = © 2005 by Steve Stroh


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      Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access = / WiMAX at 7/26/2005 11:40:39 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Tue Jul 26 16:33:58 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6QLXw8n004613 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:33:58 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6QLXve0004609 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:33:57 -0500 Received: from bla13.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B879C1FD615 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:44:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <27455885.1122414122727.JavaMail.root@bla13.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:44:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 7/26/2005 02:41:16 PM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 David Isenberg's Wi-Fi Planet Keynote Speech

      Alex Goldman= , Managing Editor of ISP-Planet.Com has written a great (as always...) three par= t summary of David Isenberg's keynote speech at the "last and final"* W= i-Fi Planet Conference and Expo, Spring 2005, held June 14-16, 2005 in Baltimore, Maryland.
      Goldman's article, Wi-Fi Planet Keynote: Wi-Fi= vs. Telcos, (which he said was one of those very rare ones that "just = jumped right from the notes to the printed page") dives deep not only into = what Isenberg said, but offers considerable background information in links= and supplemental information.

      If you've been lucky enough to he= ar Isenberg speak previously, much of his keynote will be familiar material= , but few in this particular audience would likely would have heard it... a= nd there's hardly a more fitting audience that should hear Isenberg = explain how his Stupid Network principles apply to wireless.

      But, there's plenty of meat for those of u= s who've heard Isenberg previously as he makes pithy observations (It ta= kes smart people to unwire the stupid network) about wireless. Isenberg= 's material reminds us wireless partisans and bigots that it would be and i= s all too easy to recreate some of the fundamental mistakes of no= n-Stupid Networks. In particular Isenberg's observation about where TCP= /IP error checking should be done hit home to me (do it at the endpoints, <= i>not in the network... an admonition that would seem to apply equally = last-mile wireless links.)

      Isenberg had       his impressions of Goldman's article (which is how I learned of Goldman's article since = ISP-Planet.Com isn't yet RSS-enabled... grumble.) Apparently Goldman got it= - high praise indeed!

      Wish I had been there...


      <= br />      Link to Part 2 of the referenced article
      Link to Part 3 of the referenced article

      * The Wi-Fi Planet Conference and Expo has officially been dis= continued.



      By Steve Stroh

      This article is C= opyright © 2005 by Steve Stroh.


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      Posted by Steve Stroh to       Broadband Wireless In= ternet Access / WiMAX at 7/26/2005 02:41:16 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Wed Jul 27 10:28:39 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6RFScso005386 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:28:39 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6RFSce0005382 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:28:38 -0500 Received: from bla73.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2128C19689 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:36:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <23575708.1122478612129.JavaMail.root@bla73.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:36:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 7/27/2005 08:36:07 AM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Neat Development - FiberTower Garners Additional $150 Million Investment=


      Good story on this at Broadband Wireless Business Onl= ine - FiberTower Racks Up $150M in Funding Round.

      Fib= erTower provides high-capacity backhaul to communications towers using fibe= r or wireless, but not "legacy copper".

      This is a promisi= ng development; backhaul to towers has been an issue. It's complex, time c= onsuming, and expensive to handle it for each tower "tenant". Hopefully Fib= erTower and its customers will be able to work out an arrangement to offer = commodity Internet at each tower site and the various BWIA Service Provider= s just "mount the radios and plug in". Of course, it's not going to be anyw= here near that simple, but FiberTower's story is a compelling one be= cause they can leverage the aggregated economics of bring fiber to a tower = and spreading that cost across all the tower tenants.



      By Steve Stroh

      This article is Copyright © 2005 by Steve = Stroh


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      Posted by Ste= ve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX at 7/2= 7/2005 08:36:07 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Wed Jul 27 11:28:17 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6RGSHCi007260 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:28:17 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6RGSHe0007256 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:28:17 -0500 Received: from bla168.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44CBF195C1 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:36:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6418046.1122482191272.JavaMail.root@bla168.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:36:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 7/27/2005 09:35:40 AM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Bill Gurley - WiFi Nation...


      In an article in his A= bove The Crowd weblog titled WiFi Nation..., Gurley offers a graphic excerpt= from Business Week that pretty well tells the story at a glance about just= how pervasive Municipal-scale Wi-Fi deployments are becoming.

      B= e sure to read the comment he got in response to his post - pretty funny.
      Clearly, Gurley gets it about Broadband Wireless Internet Access,= one of the handful of VCs that do.

      If you want to follow Munici= pal Broadband Wireless deployments, there's no better resource than Esme Vo= s' MuniWireless.Com. And, if yo= u love MuniWireless.Com (as I do), you'll probably want to attend Esme's MuniWireless 2005 Conference on September 28-29, 2005 in San Francisco, California (as I hope to do.)=


      By Steve Stroh

      This article is Copyright ©= ; 2005 by Steve Stroh.


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      Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX a= t 7/27/2005 09:35:40 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Wed Jul 27 13:15:50 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6RIFo4D010411 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:15:50 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6RIFoe0010407 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:15:50 -0500 Received: from bla4.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F30F51FD5C5 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:26:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <22009233.1122488644479.JavaMail.root@bla4.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:26:25 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 7/27/2005 11:22:59 AM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Wealth Of Information Site For Mac OS X And Verizon 1xEV-DO

      I'm a professed convert to an Apple 15" PowerBook G4 and OSX (10.3= .9 at the moment) from Windows. I can't say enough good things about how we= ll the PowerBook's seamlessly integrated Wi-Fi works, but it is... after al= l... Wi-Fi and thus not available everywhere yet. With NetNewsWire, Mail (A= pple's imaginative name; I guess iMail was taken), Firefox, and MarsEdit be= ing my primary applications of late, the PowerBook feels a bit crippled whe= n I'm out of Wi-Fi range (though developments Wi-Fi access in Marymoor Park located near me m= ake that less frustrating all the time.)

      So, I've often lusted a= fter 1xEV-DO services (300-500 Kbps) and before that, 1xRTT services (50-10= 0 Kbps), and as soon as I can afford the requisite $80/month... I knew that= there were gotchas about using 1xEV-DO cards with PowerBooks (iBooks and t= he 12" PowerBook don't have PCMCIA slots)

      A sub-page of EVDOinfo.com titled OSX + EVDO; YES, they do work!= is a wealth of information for Apple PowerBook owners that lust after the = wide-area, reasonably fast connectivity that 1xEV-DO service affords, such = as Verizon's BroadbandAcccess.

      The page is essentially one big a= dvertisement for the site owner acting as a sales agent for Verizon's Broad= bandAccess service, and the required (of course) 1xEV-DO cards. "One big ad= vertisement" is not a slam... there's a lot of information there, and it's = provided free. Given that Verizon doesn't support OS X, PowerBook owners ca= n be warned about what cards work, and those that don't work (nearly as wel= l).

      One interesting tidbit, which I suppose should come as no su= rprise given that Verizon is a wireless telephony company, is that a= service which is data only... and Internet data (TCP/IP) at that... is ass= igned a telephone number. The site points out that this could concei= vably be useful for receiving SMS messages (only possible with certain card= s.)



      By Steve Stroh

      This article is Copyri= ght © 2005 by Steve Stroh.


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      Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Intern= et Access / WiMAX at 7/27/2005 11:22:59 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Wed Jul 27 13:16:26 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6RIGQgm010445 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:16:26 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6RIGPe0010441 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:16:25 -0500 Received: from bla73.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30E891FD5BC for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:27:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1050396.1122488679765.JavaMail.root@bla73.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:27:01 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] Wealth Of Information Site For Mac OS X And Verizon 1xEV-DO Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 I'm a professed convert to an Apple 15" PowerBook G4 and OSX (10.3.9 at the= moment) from Windows. I can't say enough good things about how well the Po= werBook's seamlessly integrated Wi-Fi works, but it is... after all... Wi-F= i and thus not available everywhere yet. With NetNewsWire, Mail (Apple's im= aginative name; I guess iMail was taken), Firefox, and MarsEdit being my pr= imary applications of late, the PowerBook feels a bit crippled when I'm out= of Wi-Fi range (though developments Wi-Fi access in Marymoor Park located near me make that = less frustrating all the time.)

      So, I've often lusted after 1xEV= -DO services (300-500 Kbps) and before that, 1xRTT services (50-100 Kbps), = and as soon as I can afford the requisite $80/month... I knew that there we= re gotchas about using 1xEV-DO cards with PowerBooks (iBooks and the 12" Po= werBook don't have PCMCIA slots)

      A sub-page of EVDOinfo.com titled OSX + EVDO; YES, they do work! is a wea= lth of information for Apple PowerBook owners that lust after the wide-area= , reasonably fast connectivity that 1xEV-DO service affords, such as Verizo= n's BroadbandAcccess.

      The page is essentially one big advertisem= ent for the site owner acting as a sales agent for Verizon's BroadbandAcces= s service, and the required (of course) 1xEV-DO cards. "One big advertiseme= nt" is not a slam... there's a lot of information there, and it's provided = free. Given that Verizon doesn't support OS X, PowerBook owners can be warn= ed about what cards work, and those that don't work (nearly as well).
      =
      One interesting tidbit, which I suppose should come as no surprise gi= ven that Verizon is a wireless telephony company, is that a service = which is data only... and Internet data (TCP/IP) at that... is assigned a <= i>telephone number. The site points out that this could conceivably be = useful for receiving SMS messages (only possible with certain cards.)
      =


      By Steve Stroh

      This article is Copyright ©= ; 2005 by Steve Stroh.

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      Po= sted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiM= AX at 7/27/2005 11:22:00 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Thu Jul 28 14:13:42 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6SJDgBf023719 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:13:42 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6SJDfe0023715 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:13:41 -0500 Received: from bla31.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC5E81FD5A5 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <30513999.1122578520344.JavaMail.root@bla31.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 7/28/2005 12:21:18 PM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Peter Cochrane On The Power Of Free Wi-Fi


      A weblog*= post by Peter Cochrane titled The Power Of Free Wi-Fi vividly illustrat= es why the wireless telephony carriers are so oblivious to the real threat = that "the big picture" of Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and other BWIA technologies, especi= ally nearly any system that's license-exempt and can be easily deployed by = small entities poses to their future profitability.

      In this webl= og article, Cochrane briefly discusses a driving trip between Boulder, Colo= rado and San Francisco, California. He had no trouble finding Wi-Fi - "Ever= y town and stop had free Wi-Fi advertised or available if you cared to sear= ch it out."

      But then Cochrane goes on to say that he couldn't ge= t wireless telephony service! "However, the same could not be said for the = mobile phone service, which was often missing altogether, or severely lacki= ng in terms of signal level and quality of connection. So free VoIP and Wi-= Fi came to the rescue."

      Why is this sort of thing happening... a= nd the wireless telephony carriers can't even rise to challenges such as th= is? Because Wi-Fi (in this particular case) is easy enough, cheap enough, and useful enough for hotels, restaurants, even entire cities to do themselves.
      <= br />This is the exactly the kind of situation that Clayton Christensen des= cribed as "d= isruptive technology". Project forward (doesn't take much imagination) = what happens when the wireless telephone that you really want, the one that= isn't feature crippled by the carrier, lets you do Voice Over Internet Pro= tocol as primary service... use the wireless telephony network only = when absolutely necessary, or, perhaps as lifeline service. In that same ti= me frame... imagine what happens when license-exempt WiMAX gets combined wi= th MIMO and mesh networking. We're on the cusp of this kind of explosion no= w, in 2005. If you know where to look, it's already happening.

      My thanks to Techdirt Wireless for their take on Cochrane's = article.



      * I wish Silicon.Com could provide an RSS fee= d so I could keep up with Cochrane's blog.



      By Steve St= roh

      This article is Copyright © 2005 by Steve Stroh.
      <= br />





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      Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Acc= ess / WiMAX at 7/28/2005 12:21:18 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Fri Jul 29 05:27:47 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6TARl2I028648 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 05:27:47 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6TARke0028644 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 05:27:46 -0500 Received: from bla166.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D6CE195BD for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 03:36:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <13650575.1122633362508.JavaMail.root@bla166.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting_dist@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 03:36:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 7/29/2005 03:35:32 AM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Steve Gets Email - Broadband Access While Traveling


      Q: I am searching for wireless DSL internet service that can be used on my= laptop anywhere I travel. I understand that there are service provide= rs around and I inquired with DirecWay and no such luck--they are a provide= r that is stabalized not mobile.  Is this such a provider (mobile/able= to travel) or do you know of any such providers?  Thanks for all of y= our assistance. - D. R.

      A: I think the closest fit for what you'= re describing is Verizon's BroadbandAccess (300-500 Kbps, $80/month) or Nat= ionalAccess (up to 100 Kbps, $60/month). Go to www.verizonwireless.com, select Business, Mobile Profess= ional, you'll need to select a area, and then you'll see both under VZACCES= S. In my opinion, Verizon has the best overall national coverage for Broadb= and Wireless Internet Access at the moment.

      If you're going to u= se it while mobile, especially in an RV, make sure to get one of the PCMCIA= cards that allows you to use an external antenna (and try to get the exter= nal antenna) to be able to get a reasonable signal while in fringe areas (b= asically anywhere outside major metro areas.) - Steve Stroh


      By Steve Stroh

      This article is Copyright © 2005 by Steve = Stroh. Excerpts and links are expressly permitted (and encouraged.)
      Categories:
      • Broadband Wireless Internet Access / Br= oadband Wireless Access / Wireless Broadband / Wireless Access / Fixed Wire= less
      • 3G / Cellular / 1xRTT / 1xEV-DO / 1xEVDO / GPRS / UMTS / HSD= PA
      • Steve Gets Email / Q & A / Correspondence


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      Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX at 7/29/2005 03:35:32 A= M From steve@stevestroh.net Mon Aug 1 12:27:40 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j71HReeG025288 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 12:27:40 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j71HRde0025284 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 12:27:39 -0500 Received: from bla133.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD9681FD589 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 10:38:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2352459.1122917761506.JavaMail.root@bla133.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 10:38:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 8/01/2005 10:35:33 AM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 We’re In The Midst Of A Quiet Connectivity Revolution
      The latest issue of FOCUS On Broadband Wireless Internet Acces= s went out to subscribers last week. The title of that issue is We&r= squo;re In The Midst Of A Quiet Connectivity Revolution. Here are a cou= ple of scene-setting paragraphs.

      It’s unlikely to have esc= aped your attention that there’s a connectivity revolution going on r= ight now. It’s tough not have heard about WiMAX by now. One example i= s a stunt by a Seattle-based ISP called Speakeasy that worked out a deal to= place a “pre-WiMAX” Broadband Wireless Internet Access base st= ation on the Seattle Space Needle. The general public might not remember th= e term WiMAX a day later… but Speakeasy’s clever PR made sure t= hat nearly every Seattle resident had heard the term WiMAX. Intel’s w= illingness to invest $Billions over a long term has resulted in partnership= s with a number of major service providers that have agreed to “trial= ” WiMAX systems. In fact, the current very high profile of WiMAX tech= nology can be traced almost entirely to Intel’s investments in other = companies, marketing, and creating Intel WiMAX chipsets.

      ...

      But the “Noisy” Connectivity Revolution isn’t wha= t I will be writing about. What follows is a highly contrarian view, that t= he “Noisy” connectivity revolution may well be usurped by the &= ldquo;Quiet” connectivity revolution that most people aren’t re= ally aware of… or at least, they’re not aware of just how big a= nd how pervasive the Quiet Connectivity Revolution has become. The outlines= of it are so subtle as to be barely visible. I’m going to try to giv= e you a guide so you can see it yourself.


      By Steve Stroh
      This article is Copyright © 2005 by Steve Stroh. Excerpts an= d links are expressly permitted (and encouraged.)

      Categories:=
      • Broadband Wireless Internet Access / Broadband Wireless A= ccess / Wireless Broadband / Wireless Access / Fixed Wireless
      • FOC= US on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Newsletter
      • Predictions /= Forecasts / Statistics / Numbers / Studies / White Papers / Reports
        <= /ul>


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        Posted by Stev= e Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX at 8/01/2005 10:35:3= 3 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Mon Aug 1 12:48:59 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j71Hmx2t026289 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 12:48:59 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j71Hmwe0026285 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 12:48:58 -0500 Received: from bla72.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D4B619699 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 10:57:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <12812517.1122919054180.JavaMail.root@bla72.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 10:57:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 8/01/2005 10:57:05 AM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Muniwireless Second Anniversary Report Released

        From MuniWireless.Com:


        = The Muniwireless Second Anniversary Report is out and you can download i= t from = here (PDF format).

        The Report contains a list of municipalit= ies around the world that have deployed or are about to deploy citywide wir= eless broadband networks. In addition to the list are tables that show how = much they are spending on their networks, what applications they are using = and the business models they are implementing to meet their goals.
        Please email [Esme Vos - ] info at muniwireless.com if there are any err= ors or if I left out your city.

        I consider Esme Vos and her = MuniWireless.Com web site (newl= y remodeled - looks very nice!) to be the primary source on the web for sol= id, comprehensive information on deployment of Municipal Broadband Wireless= Networks

        Thanks to Sam at DailyWireless.Org for the pointer.


        By Steve Stroh

        This a= rticle is Copyright © 2005 by Steve Stroh. Excerpts and links are expr= essly permitted (and encouraged.)

        Categories:
          Broadband Wireless Internet Access / Broadband Wireless Access / Wireless= Broadband / Wireless Access / Fixed Wireless
        • Outdoor / Long Rang= e / Public Wi-Fi / WiFi / 802.11a / 802.11g / 802.11b
        • Municipal = Broadband Wireless / MuniWireless / Municipal Wi-Fi
        • Other Media
        • Predictions / Forecasts / Statistics / Numbers / Studies / White P= apers / Reports
        • Wireless Cloud
        • Wireless HotZones / Wi-F= i HotZones / WiFi HotZones



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        Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wirele= ss Internet Access / WiMAX at 8/01/2005 10:57:05 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Mon Aug 1 14:24:05 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j71JO5oU028772 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 14:24:05 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j71JO4e0028768 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 14:24:04 -0500 Received: from bla53.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A77A195B7 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 12:32:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1310017.1122924760297.JavaMail.root@bla53.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 12:32:40 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 8/01/2005 12:32:05 PM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Good Article On Clearwire

        McCaw staffs up for growth, by Jim Meisner, Puget Soun= d Business Journal mentions that they're at 500 people currently and are st= ill ramping up. That's a bit jarring to me thinking about a pure play Broad= band Wireless Internet Access Service Provider having a staff of 500 and gr= owing.

        This was welcome news for those of us in Washington and t= he greater Seattle area who've grown weary of the semi-clueless duopoly of = Comcast (formerly AT&T Broadband, formerly TCI) and Verizon (formerly Gener= al Trial and Error [GTE]) for residential broadband services:

        To date, the company has been noticeably absent from the Puget Sound area.= But not for long. By the end of the summer, residents and businesses in Ke= nnewick and Bellingham will be able to sign up for the service, and Seattle= , Tacoma, Yakima and parts of the Eastside soon will follow.

        ("Eastside" refers to the Seattle suburbs East of Lake Washington which bo= rders Seattle to the East - Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Bothell, Woodinvil= le, Issaquah, etc.)

        Assuming that Clearwire isn't so clueless as= to continue their policy of blocking Voice Over Internet Protoc= ol (VOIP) communications, it should find a ready audience for its servi= ces on the tech-savvy Eastside where many consider Skype and Vonage to be a= core part of Broadband Internet Access.

        Long term, it will be i= nteresting to see how the independent Broadband incumbents such as Northwest Infonet fare in smaller markets t= hat Clearwire enters, such as Yakima.

        By Steve Stroh

        = This article is Copyright © 2005 by Steve Stroh. Excerpts and links ar= e expressly permitted (and encouraged.)

        Categories:
        =
        • Broadband Wireless Internet Access / Broadband Wireless Access / Wi= reless Broadband / Wireless Access / Fixed Wireless
        • 2.5 GHz / MMD= S / ITFS / Broadband Radio Service / BRS Spectrum
        • Events / Confer= ences
        • Licensed Spectrum
        • Related Voice Over Internet Pro= tocol / IP / VOIP




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        Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless In= ternet Access / WiMAX at 8/01/2005 12:32:05 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Mon Aug 1 16:14:39 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j71LEdrA031696 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:14:39 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j71LEde0031692 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:14:39 -0500 Received: from bla165.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62B341FD595 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 14:25:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9451940.1122931395560.JavaMail.root@bla165.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 14:25:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 8/01/2005 02:22:44 PM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive:

        TowerStream’s VoIP coming tomorrow: "

        I wrote about this back in March. Its coming sometime this week along with a partner.

        "



        (Via Om Malik's Broadband Blog.)



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        Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX at 8/01/2005 02:22:44 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Thu Aug 11 11:39:07 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7BGd7q6002770 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:39:07 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7BGd6Ll002766 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:39:06 -0500 Received: from bla53.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 607411968D for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:48:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <24360260.1123778897389.JavaMail.root@bla53.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:48:17 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 8/11/2005 09:47:48 AM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Qualcomm Will Acquire Flarion Technologies


        Qualcomm will acquire Flarion Technologies for $600 Million. Qualcomm may also= pay an additional $205 million if certain milestones are met.

        T= his is a very strategic move for Qualcomm.

        The more obvio= us perspective is that Qualcomm has co-opted Flarion Technologies as one of= the most credible and technologically capable of Qualcomm's competitors in= Mobile Broadband Wireless Internet Access (BWIA) that isn't beholden to Qu= alcomm and its extensive CDMA Intellectual Property.

        Flarion's p= roduction and test deployments, including a high-profile and reportedly ver= y successful market trial with = Nextel have proven that Flarion's Flash-OFDM technology can deliver Bro= adband Internet Access services, fully mobile, and that Voice (over Interne= t Protocol - VOIP) was "just another application" that worked fine on Flash= -OFDM, which was developed from the ground up for handling Internet Protoco= l data traffic. Another notable technological achievement was that Flarion = had successfully developed systems for disparate spectrum allocations, incl= uding 450 MHz and 700 MHz in the US. (Charlie Townsend of Aloha Partners mu= st be sweating a bit from this announcement; as the [current] largest owner= of 700 MHz spectrum in the US, Aloha will use Flarion equipment in its ini= tial market deployment, and now will have to deal with Qualcomm, not the sm= all nimble company Aloha was previously dealing with in Flarion.)

        Qualcomm's Press Release makes it clear (in the first p= aragraph, no less)

        Flarion, with a world-class team and an ex= pansive portfolio of OFDMA intellectual property...


        th= at one of Qualcomm's primary motivations was the potential for adding Flari= on's Intellectual Property on OFDM and in particular, Mobile OFDM to= Qualcomm's already extensive Intellectual Property centered on its CDMA te= chnology.

        Less well understood is that Qualcomm's acquisition of= Flarion Technologies is in fact a humbling admission by Qualcomm that its = CDMA technology isn't really the be-all-and-end-all when it comes to Mobile= Broadband Wireless Internet Access.

        To be sure, there is extens= ive Intellectual Property developed around OFDM at many other companies, bu= t there have been only few attempts (see my article Wi-LAN's Pate= nt Tollbooth On The Road To WiMAX) at asserting that IP because the fie= ld of Broadband Wireless is so young. That will assuredly change with Qualc= omm in charge of Flarion's Intellectual Property.

        Nancy Gohring = makes a good point in her WiMAX Networking News article Qualcomm is buying F= larion for $600 million in stock and cash in referencing Robert "Teamre= p" Syputa's WIMAX Trends article INTEL AGAINST QUALCOMM: CLASH OF THE T= ITANS that the real battle yet to be waged is Intel's intense ad= vocacy of WiMAX / 802.16-2004 / 802.16e / 802.20 / OFDM versus Qualcomm.

        By Steve Stroh

        This article is Copyright © 2= 005 by Steve Stroh. Excerpts and links are expressly permitted (and encoura= ged.)

        Categories:
        • Broadband Wireless Interne= t Access / Broadband Wireless Access / Wireless Broadband / Wireless Access= / Fixed Wireless
        • WiMAX / 802.16a / 802.16-2004 / Mobile WiMAX / = 802.16e / 802.20
        • 450 MHz Spectrum
        • 700 MHz Spectrum
        • 1.9 GHz Spectrum
        • 2.5 GHz / MMDS / ITFS / Broadband Radio Se= rvice / BRS Spectrum
        • Financial / Investment
        • Mergers / A= cquisitions / Partnerships / Deals
        • Mobile / Mobility / Portable /= Portability / Nomadic
        • Proprietary Standards


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        Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX at 8/11/2005 09:47:48 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Thu Aug 11 12:50:51 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7BHoo4r005405 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:50:51 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7BHooLl005401 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:50:50 -0500 Received: from bla2.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F591FD69F for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:00:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5157465.1123783208899.JavaMail.root@bla2.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:00:28 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 8/11/2005 10:59:35 AM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20
        New Long-range, High-speed Broad= band Wireless Internet Access System From Solectek

        Solectek's SkyWay 7000 Series Broadband Wi= reless Internet Access system is an interesting combination of features. That it achieves 100 Mbps point-to-point for up to five miles operating= in the license-exempt 5.8 GHz band using OFDM isn't that notable, but it i= s notable that the system is also available in a point-to-multipoint versio= n, including the unusual option of an integral omnidirectional antenna.

        The 7000 series is another low-footprint unit that integrates the r= adio hardware into the antenna using Power Over Ethernet (POE), and thus no= need to allocate rack space for an indoor radio unit or expensive, distanc= e-limiting coaxial cable between the indoor and the outdoor units.
        It's also worth noting that Solectek makes no claims that the 700= 0 System is, or might be at some point in the future, WiMAX-compliant. (Ble= ssings to Solectek for not using the dubious "Pre-WiMAX" terminology= .)

        Pricing of the new system was not stated. Solectek apparently= sells direct.

        SkyWay 7000 Press Release

        Competitively= , I've been told that "5.8 GHz is too crowded, not reliable enough, lots of= people are complaining and looking for options... and our product is th= e answer to those issues" (all with 100 Mbps products):
        • <= a href=3D"http://www.bridgewave.com">BridgeWave FE60 (60 GHz license-ex= empt)
        • DragonWave AirPair= (24 GHz license-exempt)
        • First Avenue Networks (24/39 GHz licensed spectrum [and perhaps more= ; I haven't kept up with them] on a "retail" basis)
        • fSONA SONAbeam (Free Space Optical, license-exempt,= of course)
        • And more, especially numerous 100 Mbps license-exempt= P-P systems...




        By Steve Stroh

        This article is Copyright © 2005 by Steve Stroh. Excerpts and links a= re expressly permitted (and encouraged.)

        Categories:
        • Broadband Wireless Internet Access / Broadband Wireless Access / W= ireless Broadband / Wireless Access / Fixed Wireless
        • 5 GHz / 5.3 = GHz / 5.4 GHz / 5.7 GHz / 5.8 GHz / UNII Spectrum
        • Antennas / Ante= nna Systems / Beam Forming / Beam Steering / Phased Array
        • License= Exempt Spectrum / License-exempt / Unlicensed / No License
        • New P= roducts
        • Proprietary Broadband Wireless Internet Access Technology= Standards



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        Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / = WiMAX at 8/11/2005 10:59:35 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Fri Aug 12 15:08:18 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7CK8Iio024086 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:08:18 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7CK8HLl024082 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:08:18 -0500 Received: from bla150.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33CA91FD520 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:17:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <21808312.1123877846040.JavaMail.root@bla150.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:17:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 8/12/2005 01:16:55 PM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Good Story About Satellite Internet Access In (Very) Rural Areas


        A canada.com story by Jeff Buckstein of The Ottawa Citizen - = Broadband comes to the North (Part 1) gives a go= od overview of the challenges faced by deploying broadband to very rural co= mmunities, in this case the village of Pangnirtung on Baffin Island in Canada's Arctic North (Very= North... North of Hudson Bay and halfway to Greenland.

        Sate= llite is the only reasonable way to backhaul Broadband Internet Access ther= e, which will apparently be distributed in the last mile(s) via terrestrial= Broadband Wireless using 2.5 GHz, but the article doesn't really go into t= he terrestrial portion of the system.

        The article dives pretty d= eep into the background of how the satellite system came to be (primarily, = underwritten by the Canadian Government) and the changes it brings to a sma= ll, remote village.

        It's a good reminder that other than latency= -sensitive applications like gaming and Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP)= (although the article cites that some users are looking forward to using V= OIP to cut down on their long distance telephone bills), satellite Internet= backhaul, especially highly-aggregated "big" satellite systems (as opposed= to consumer satellite systems) work well to provide Broadband Internet Acc= ess in remote locations such as Pangnirtung.

        Recommended!
        <= br />
        By Steve Stroh

        This article is Copyright © 2005 = by Steve Stroh. Excerpts and links are expressly permitted (and encouraged.= )

        Categories:
        • Broadband Wireless Internet Ac= cess / Broadband Wireless Access / Wireless Broadband / Wireless Access / F= ixed Wireless
        • Other Media
        • Satellite Broadband Internet = Access


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        Posted = by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX = at 8/12/2005 01:16:55 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Fri Aug 12 15:47:59 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7CKlxT1025258 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:47:59 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7CKlxLl025254 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:47:59 -0500 Received: from bla75.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA6D1195F8 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:57:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <15086053.1123880242822.JavaMail.root@bla75.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:57:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 8/12/2005 01:56:51 PM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Unstrung's Who Makes What For WiMAX Survey

        Considering th= e nascent and in-flux actual state of WiMAX, with the very first systems on= ly now undergoing interoperability testing for WiMAX certification, it's ha= rd to quibble with the listings in Unstrung's (Light Reading's) latest repo= rt: Who Makes What: WiMax Equipment & Services. So I won'= t (quibble)... though the listings are noticeably incomplete.

        Part 1 of the report is the Introduction
        =
        Part 2 of the report is WiMAX Compon= ent & Subsystem Vendors

        Part 3 of= the report is WiMAX Systems Vendors

        Part 4 of the re= port is Carrier Trials


        By Steve Stroh

        This arti= cle is Copyright © 2005 by Steve Stroh. Excerpts and links are express= ly permitted (and encouraged.)

        Categories:
        • B= roadband Wireless Internet Access / Broadband Wireless Access / Wireless Br= oadband / Wireless Access / Fixed Wireless
        • WiMAX / 802.16a / 802.= 16-2004 / Mobile WiMAX / 802.16e / 802.20
        • Broadband Wireless Serv= ice Provider / BWSP
        • Other Media
        • Predictions / Forecasts= / Statistics / Numbers / Studies / White Papers / Reports



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        Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX at 8/12/2005 01:56:51 PM= From steve@stevestroh.net Fri Aug 12 16:05:34 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7CL5Ycw025715 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:05:34 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7CL5XLl025711 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:05:33 -0500 Received: from bla134.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4635319615 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:14:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <14933408.1123881297278.JavaMail.root@bla134.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:14:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 8/12/2005 02:14:26 PM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Good Overview Of Clearwire's Moves In Europe

        Justin Springham, Senior Editor, Europe, for Unstrung.com does a good overview of Clearwire's European activities in Clearwire Expands in Europe.


        By Steve Stroh

        This article is Copyright © 2005 by Steve Stroh. Excerpts and links are expressly permitted (and encouraged.)

        Categories:
        • Broadband Wireless Internet Access / Broadband Wireless Access / Wireless Broadband / Wireless Access / Fixed Wireless
        • BWIA Industry Barometer Service Provider - Clearwire
        • Licensed Spectrum
        • Other Media



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        Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX at 8/12/2005 02:14:26 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Fri Aug 12 23:00:43 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7D40h6b003249 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:00:43 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7D40gLl003245 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:00:42 -0500 Received: from bla55.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ECB31FD4F4 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 21:10:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <12753578.1123906207368.JavaMail.root@bla55.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 21:10:30 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 8/12/2005 09:09:33 PM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 The A-M-Zs Of 802.11

        Sam Churchill of DailyWireless.Org h= as a good rundown from sources on the various 802.11 standard extensions - = 802.11a through 802.11v in his article = 802.11xyz. Sam's article gives links to all the 802.11 working groups (= I reference some of them on the sidebar of this weblog).

        Googlin= g, I found another good 802.11 rundown at Connect802 "Number Entries" Wi-Fi Diction= ary and Encyclopedia which explains the missing 802.11 "L" (it's too po= tentially confusing with the "11", and explains 802.11 "Z" eloquently:

        At present there is no 802.11z standard, either proposed, in a wo= rking group, or in draft. A careful search of the IEEE website and the IEEE= 802.11 working group website reveals no mention of an 802.11z standard. Un= fortunately the world-at-large seems to define "z" as everything from Gigab= it wireless to mental telepathy (really.) It may be the case that this gene= ral misperception has its roots in a typographic error stemming from 2002. = A May 2002 announcement from O'Reilly press contains a typographic error wh= en it states, "Gast tackles these issues and many more in his book. "802.11= Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide" also looks forward to the newest = developments in wireless networks, including the two new 54 Mbps standards:= 802.11z and 802.11g. Of course, the two "new" 54 Mbps standards are 802.11= a and 802.11g. It's interesting how "z" and "a" are positioned relative to = each other on a QWERTY keyboard. This typographic error appears to have pro= pagated to many reviewers websites across the Internet. A similar typograph= ic error appears in a paper published in the IEEE Journal. The title in the= index listing says "z" but the actual PDF of the paper says "a". There is = no 802.11z. {By the way, if any of our website readers can contribute infor= mation to the contrary we'll salute them in the next monthly issue of the W= ireless Connectivity Update newsletter and e-magazine.


        By Steve Stroh

        This article is Copyright © 2005 by Steve S= troh (except for fair use excerpt). Excerpts and links are expressly permit= ted (and encouraged.)

        Categories:
        • Broadband = Wireless Internet Access / Broadband Wireless Access / Wireless Broadband /= Wireless Access / Fixed Wireless
        • Outdoor / Long Range / Public W= i-Fi / WiFi / 802.11a / 802.11g / 802.11b
        • Background / History
        • Clueful BWIA-related posting from DailyWireless.Org




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        Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access= / WiMAX at 8/12/2005 09:09:33 PM         From steve@stevestroh.net Wed Sep 7 12:27:25 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j87HRPVs029575 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 12:27:25 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j87HRPLl029571 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 12:27:25 -0500 Received: from bla75.prod.google.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 834E91FD4D5 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 10:40:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20940105.1126114709771.JavaMail.root@bla75.prod.google.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 10:40:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 9/07/2005 10:38:06 AM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20
        This is a press release I wrote on September 6, 2005 behalf of Michae= l Anderson, Chairman of PART-15.ORG to describe PART-15.ORG's first formal = tasking to provide Internet Access communications.

        As far as I c= an tell, it was never released by Anderson or PART-15.ORG.

        It wa= s accurate (per the information I had access to) at the time it was written= , but events are, of course, evolving rapidly. In this weblog version, I ha= ve added some hyperlinks that were not in the original press release that I= submitted to Anderson.


        PART-15.ORG Volunteers Tasked W= ith Providing Internet Communications To Massive American Red Cross Relief = Shelter At Kelly Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas

        Aurora, = Illinois, September 6, 2005

        This afternoon, PART-15.ORG Chairman Michael Anderson received a formal = request by the Federal Communications Commis= sion (FCC) for Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) industry volun= teers organized by PART-15.ORG to be dispatched to the former Kelly Air Force Base (Kelly AFB) in San Antonio= Texas to begin providing Internet services for the massive relief shelter = forming there.

        With that formal request from the FCC, PART-15.OR= G has begun formally activating hundreds of volunteer personnel from the Wi= reless Internet Service Provider industry.

        The former Kelly Air = Force Base was decommissioned as an active Air Force base in the mid-1990&r= squo;s. It is potentially one of the largest of the American Red Cross reli= ef camps for temporary resettlement of victims of Hurricane Katrina. News r= eports state that approximately 10,000 people have already been placed at K= elly AFB, and that number could grow to as large as 50,000.

        As p= art of its unprecedented mission to set up shelters to accommodate all resi= dents of areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina, American Red Cross has been asked for the first time to implem= ent Internet kiosks and extensive phone banks using Voice Over Internet Pro= tocol (VOIP) technology for public use at each relief shelter. American Red= Cross’ Information Technology (IT) department determined that WISP c= apabilities were a good fit for ARC’s shelter requirements, and appea= r to be particularly impressed with PART-15.ORG’s stated response tim= es and the fact that well-proven, well-supported wireless technology would = be used in the planned systems.

        This is the first of what is exp= ected to be a large number of similar deployments for WISP industry volunte= ers, which encompass equipment vendors, service providers, individuals, and= other WISP industry organizations such as the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA). American = Red Cross has set up 300 relief shelters to date, and many more are expecte= d to be set up in the coming weeks.

        Key equipment vendor and ser= vices partners PART-15.ORG’s Hurricane Katrina Relief Effort include = Redline Communications= , Trango Broadband Wireless= , smartBridges, Cisco Systems, Times Microwave, and Vonage. Links to each of these vendors can be found on the PART-15.ORG pages lis= ted below.

        More information on PART-15.ORG’s Hurricane Kat= rina Relief Effort is at         http://www.part-15.org/emergencyrelief/katrina.html. Ther= e you will find links to offer individual and corporate volunteers as well = as donating services, equipment, and funds.

        ABOUT PART-15.ORG
        PART-15.ORG is an international association of Wireless Internet S= ervice Providers (WISPs). PART-15.ORG is leading a broad coalition of servi= ce providers, equipment vendors, and qualified personnel in planning for ra= pid deployment of high-priority Internet communications in the region left = devastated in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

        More information on= PART-15.ORG is at http://www.part-15.or= g.

        ABOUT WISPA

        WISPA - the Wireless Internet Serv= ice Providers Association, is dedicated to promoting and improving the WISP= industry.

        More information about WISPA is at http://www.wispa.org

        CONTACTS

        Mich= ael Anderson, Chairman, PART-15.ORG, mranderson@pdqlink.com, 630-518-4742
        Claudia Crowley, Project Coordinator, PART-15.ORG Katrina Relief,= ccrowley@gmail.com

        Rick Harnish, Board Member, WISPA, rharnish@= onlyinternet.net

        {end}

        (I'm not claiming copyright on= this - copy and distribute as you see fit. - sks)



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        Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX at 9/07/2005 10:38:06 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Wed Oct 19 16:57:11 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9JLvB8O005733 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:57:11 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9JLvALl005729 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:57:10 -0500 Received: from bla27.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A0E01FD533 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:14:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <22625258.1129759871739.JavaMail.root@bla27.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:14:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 10/19/2005 03:10:48 PM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Ubiquiti Networks Reveals Prototype 902-928 MHz Mini-PCI card
        <= br />Blogging from ISPCON Fall = 2005

        Ubiquiti Networks = makes high power radio cards that many vendors use as the RF portion of the= ir BWIA systems. Ubiquiti Networks made quite a splash in the segment of th= e BWIA industry with the introduction of their Super Range 5 which transmit= s 400mW on 5.8 GHz band. A number of vendors have told me that the Super Ra= nge 5 is a "secret weapon" for them, allowing them to build systems capable= of sustaining high speeds (appreciably close to the theoretical 54 Mbps of= 802.11a) and much higher reliablity due to the increased signal to noise r= atio (SNR) that the higher transmit power makes possible.

        At ISP= CON Fall 2005, Ubiquiti Networks began discussing Super Range 9 - a radio c= ard that will operate in the 902-928 MHz band, transmit power up to 1 Watt,= data rate of up to 54 Mbps. The Super Range 9 uses an Atheros wireless chi= pset (how they have made this possible is apparently "secret sauce"), so bo= th the hardware I/O (Mini PCI) and the Application Programming Interface (A= PI) are standardized.

        If the Super Range 9 does actually make it= into production, it will form the basis of entirely new types of BWIA syst= ems. For example, we're now seeing Wireless Mesh radios that have both 2.4 = GHz and 5.8 GHz radios... The Super Range 9 adds a new dimension (literally= ) to such systems, and the "Penetrates trees Non Line of Sight (NLOS)" natu= re of 902-928 MHz means that mesh systems can become that much MORE capable= . Currently, 902-928 MHz capability is only available in frequency-dedicate= d units from vendors such as Alvarion, Airspan, Trango Broadband, Motorola = Canopy, WaveRider, etc.

        Currently the card is in prototype, so n= o release date or pricing was available. The closest thing to answers on th= ose points I was able to get out of booth personnel was "soon" and "reasona= ble", respectively.

        The Super Range 9 isn't just of interest to = BWIA system vendors - you'll start seeing it used for Community Wireless, h= obbyist, and many other uses.

        Kudos to Ubiquiti Networks!
        <= br />
        This article is Copyright © 2005 by Steve Stroh. Excerpts a= nd links are expressly permitted (and encouraged.)

        Categories= :
        • Broadband Wireless Internet Access / Broadband Wireless = Access / Wireless Broadband / Wireless Access / Fixed Wireless
        • Ou= tdoor / Long Range / Public Wi-Fi / WiFi / 802.11a / 802.11g / 802.11b
        • 902-928 MHz / 900 MHz Spectrum
        • New Products



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        Posted by Steve Stroh = to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX at 10/19/2005 0= 3:10:48 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Thu Oct 27 12:44:46 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9RHikVQ030660 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:44:46 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9RHijLl030655 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:44:45 -0500 Received: from bla27.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4144C19758 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:44:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <16594385.1130435072220.JavaMail.root@bla27.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:44:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 10/27/2005 10:44:00 AM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Blogging From WiMAX World... Via 1xEV-DO

        = Dallas for WISPCON, Santa Clara for= ISPCON, now Boston... Life has been = a bit of a whirlwind of travel for me these last three weeks.

        As= I listen to yet another speaker drone on with rosy projections for the fut= ure of WiMAX at the WiMAX World Conference & Exposition in Boston = October 26-28, 2005, I find myself forced once again to resort to my Verizo= n BroadbandAccess card to establish reliable and consistent Internet= access (including uploading this blog posting) in what ought to be the<= /i> hotbed of WiMAX connectivity on the planet during this week.

        As usual at a large conference, the Wi-Fi access is either dysfunctional o= r totally saturated. That's to be expected - too many conference centers, i= ncluding the Boston World Trade Center where WiMAX World is being held, sim= ply haven't upgraded their Wi-Fi to meet the enormous increase in demand fr= om every third person wanting to to use Wi-Fi simultaneously. The inadequat= e Wi-Fi service should be an instructive lesson on how and why WiMAX is sup= posed to "fix" the issues we're told that makes Wi-Fi unsuitable for large = scale deployments, and "3G" unsuitable for future broadband applications.
        But...

        Show organizers... and the represented vendors,= and the WiMAX industry as a whole seem to have completely overlooked one o= f the most obvious ways to demonstrate the capabilities and the reality of = WiMAX - loan out some portable WiMAX gear to the herd of Press that's atten= ding WiMAX World so that they can get a hands-on, real-world (at least appr= oximating real-world) experience with WiMAX. Even at a conference, having s= omething that you can actually try out for yourself away from handle= rs would have gone a long way towards answering the Press' pervasive questi= ons about whether WimAX is "real" or not.

        What I describe cou= ld have been done; kudos to a NextNet Wireless staffer for a brief loan of an Expedience CPE that = I witnessed during booth setup time yesterday. That staffer had the right i= dea - the base station was across the street shooting through a big chunk o= f structure - pretty challenging, but was actually working as advertised. B= ut the demonstration was 1) a very brief loan, 2) effectively restricted to= the area around the NextNet booth (the staffer wanted his gear back, and t= he loanee wasn't Press), and 3) NextNet Expedience isn't WiMAX!

        There is some impressive hardware being shown off in booths. For exa= mple, Intel is showing off desktop WiMAX Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) f= rom Alvarion and Airspan operating on a "Booth Area Network" (BAN :-) for p= asserby demonstrations, which is nice, but hardly an effective demonstratio= n of what WiMAX really is.

        Perhaps next year... but with WiMAX..= . isn't it perpetually a "good stuff next year" story since, what, 2= 003? One one of today's presentations I saw a WiMAX timeline that projects = out to 2010, which is an (expletive deleted - let's just say "unrealistic")= timeline considering Broadband Wireless technology as a whole is evolving = in realtime now. I'll be looking hard to find some better examples of WiMAX= "Ready for Business Now" while I'm attending WiMAX World.


        This article is Copyright © 2005 by Steve Stroh. Excerpts and = links are expressly permitted (and encouraged.)

        Categories:
        • Broadband Wireless Internet Access / Broadband Wireless Acc= ess / Wireless Broadband / Wireless Access / Fixed Wireless
        • WiMAX= / 802.16a / 802.16-2004 / Mobile WiMAX / 802.16e / 802.20
        • 3G / C= ellular / 1xRTT / 1xEV-DO / 1xEVDO / GPRS / UMTS / HSDPA
        • Commenta= ry / Editorial
        • Enterprise Wi-Fi / WiMAX
        • Events / Confer= ences
        • Wireless HotSpots / Wi-Fi HotSpots / WiFi HotSpots



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          Posted by Steve = Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX at 10/27/2005 10:44= :00 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Tue Nov 1 13:16:41 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jA1JGf0f018344 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:16:41 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jA1JGfLl018335 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:16:41 -0600 Received: from bla27.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FF6C1FD5C7 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 11:20:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <27950015.1130872588015.JavaMail.root@bla27.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 11:20:37 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] SKYTILITY - Now It Can Be Told Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 SK= YTILITY has emerged from stealth mode with their soft launch October 18= , 2005 at ISPCON Fall 2005 = followed a week later by its "hard launch" last week at WiMAX World 2005. (Link to the press release.)

          SKYTILITY is a technology and vendor-agnostic Wireless System Integ= ration company specializing in Broadband Wireless Internet Access (BWIA). S= KYTILITY was formed to exploit a gaping hole in the Broadband Wireless Inte= rnet Access (BWIA) Industry - the absence of for-hire Systems Integration e= xpertise that has significant experience and capabilities in deploying BWIA= systems that operate reliably in license-exempt spectrum.

          The p= roblem that SKYTILITY addresses is that the currently-available expertise-f= or-hire to design and build license-exempt BWIA systems are primarily:
          • Analysts - I've only seen a few reports, and heard of very few con= sultations from Analysts that are the least bit "clueful" about BWIA, and e= specially BWIA operating in license-exempt spectrum. You simply can't sit a= t a desk full time and truly get it about BWIA and license-exempt BW= IA.
          • Consultants - Individual consultants are some of the sharpest = people in the BWIA industry, but the rapid evolution in BWIA Technology, ve= ndors, products, WiMAX... other... have roared past the abilities of the ma= jority of consultants to track, and thus be able to render qualified, impar= tial, up-to-date advice.
          • Resellers - Their business is to "move bo= xes" with a minimum of support other than what is necessary to make the sal= e. (Yes, there are exceptions.)
          • Vendors - it should be obvious tha= t vendors are anything but impartial sources of advice in general, but many= that contemplate a BWIA network feel that they have no choice but to rely = heavily on advice from vendors because they realize that they can't get clu= eful advice anywhere else.
          • Service Providers - They've developed <= i>their systems, collected their battle scars, learned the ins a= nd outs of their preferred vendors, adapted to the particular parame= ters of the markets that they operate in, but in the end their advic= e probably isn't much more impartial then vendors.
          • (Licensed Spect= rum) Systems Integration - There are a lot of good Wireless Systems Integra= tion companies that have deployed point-to-point microwave networks, wirele= ss telephony networks, and two-way-radio systems. But those companies don't= seem to... perhaps even cannot... understand how to design and depl= oy systems to operate reliably in license-exempt spectrum, other than those= few systems that they've been specifically trained on by individual vendor= s.


          SKYTILITY tries to address all of these issues and defic= iencies. One of its corporate imperatives is to be vendor and technology ne= utral within the Broadband Wireless Internet Access industry. SKYTILITY wan= ts to make their money mostly from Professional Services, offering impartia= l, unencumbered advice and services in all phases of BWIA systems - initial= concept through turnkey activation. SKYTILITY's personnel have deep... = very deep experience in deploying many and varied license-exempt BWIA s= ystems - hands-on-turn-the-wrench/climb-the-tower/aim-the-radio/program-the= -router experience. SKYTILITY is composed of a number of individuals with incredible depth of k= nowledge who continuously cross-fertilize and "reality-check" each other ab= out the rapid evolution of Broadband Wireless Internet Access technology, s= ystems, and industry developments.

          I have two reasons for highli= ghting SKYTILITY's emergence. When I was first informed about SKYTILITY sev= eral months ago, I immediately grasped that its emergence was a key milesto= ne in the evolution of the Broadband Wireless Internet Access industry. A c= ompany like SKYTILITY, with its broad and deep knowledge of, and ability to= build License-exempt Broadband Wireless Internet Access has been needed= for the Broadband Wireless Internet Access industry to evolve to the n= ext level.

          The second reason I am highlighting SKYTILITY's emerg= ence is more personal. I was honored to be asked to join the SKYTILITY team= as a consultant; my title with SKYTILITY is Senior Research Analyst. In that role,= I analyze industry trends for SKYTILITY's internal use, and provide some s= trategic advice and various special projects, and provide SKYTILITY's persp= ective about the industry through SKYTILITY's and the corporate Weblog. My relationship with S= KYTILITY has been immensely gratifying already, and there are many projects= in the works which I am looking forward to. One of the things I am most lo= oking forward to working with SKYTILITY is the ability to get more-than-occ= asional hands-on experience with Broadband Wireless Internet Access systems= . It's been one of the frustrations of my writing career in Broadband Wirel= ess Internet Access that I don't have much direct, hands-on experience with= the systems I write about.

          While my work for SKYTILITY will tak= e up some of my available time, for the immediate future I will... am no= w able to... continue to write about Broadband Wireless Internet Access= in my weblog and newsletter, and contribute articles to other venues, and = perhaps a few special projects. Because of my relationship with SKYTILITY, = I'm now generally unavailable for consultation projects relating to Broadba= nd Wireless Internet Access (except through SKYTILITY).


          Th= is article is Copyright =C2=A9 2005 by Steve Stroh. Excerpts and links are = expressly permitted (and encouraged.)

          Categories:

          • Administrivia / Other Steve Stroh writing / venues / podcasts
            <= li> Launches / New Ventures
          • Licensed Spectrum
          • License E= xempt Spectrum / License-exempt / Unlicensed / No License
          • News


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          Posted by Steve = Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX at 11/01/2005 10= :59:00 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Tue Nov 1 15:26:43 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jA1LQhjI022055 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:26:43 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jA1LQhLl022051 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:26:43 -0600 Received: from bla35.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1513C1FD4C8 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:30:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <14161789.1130880405745.JavaMail.root@bla35.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:30:55 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 11/01/2005 01:26:19 PM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Telco Stupidity? Route Around It!

          In 1993, John Gilmore <= a href=3D"http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/reagle/inet-quotations-199907= 09.html">said The net treats censorship as a defect and routes aroun= d it.

          It's a profound statement.

          I have a corolla= ry: License-exempt Broadband Wireless treats telco stupidity as damage and routes around it.

          So, I'm not particularly concerned abou= t things like Kevin Werbach's observation of The Telco Mindset.
          What Whitacre/SBC... Clearwire... Verizon Wireless do not get... = or are too frightened to admit even to themselves is that David Isenberg really is right and in provid= ing Internet access, they are a commodity service - an IP bitpipe distingui= shed only in where I can access it, how much I pay, how fast/good it is... = and that I'm only willing to pay for that access when it suits my           needs. If an Internet access service doesn't suit my needs - Wh= itacre/SBC actively blocking Google because it won't pay a toll to SBC or C= learwire blocking Skype or Verizon Wireless cutting off my BroadbandAccess = account because I use the voice capabilities of my various Instant Messenge= r applications... then I won't pay for their crippled (to me) services, and= I now have alternatives.

          I've offered the "telco stupidity as d= amage" observation/corollary to a number of people in a position of influen= ce, and they don't seem to want to get it. One reason I think that i= s is because the knowledge base regarding License-exempt Broadband Wireless= Internet Access (LE BWIA) of those "people in a position of influence"* se= ems largely limited to "household" Wi-Fi, some interesting hobbyist experim= ents, the admitted hyping of WiMAX, and the mostly-potential large-scale de= ployments of Municipal Broadband Wireless systems in major cities like Phil= adelphia and San Francisco.

          But in reality, such a "knowledge ba= se" doesn't even reflect the "tip of the iceberg" of LE BWIA technology and= systems that are now possible... and evolving... and actively being deploy= ed.

          We have the technology, and sufficient spectrum, to build an= y conceivable Broadband Infrastructure we want... or need. How much money t= hat any given situation will require is an issue, and it may, at times, be = cheaper and better to simply pay what it costs to run fiber. But, it's now = the case that building License-exempt Broadband Wireless Internet Access (B= WIA) infrastructure is always an option.

          But I think ther= e's another reason that "people in a position of influence" don't seem to w= ant to get it about LE BWIA; I think it's because they've spent much of the= ir professional or academic or consulting lives decrying the issues of avai= lability of, pricing of, and restrictions on Broadband Internet Access... m= ostly relating to Telco/Cableco wireline Broadband Internet Access.<= br />
          In short, it's simply more comfortable, easier, more academicall= y and politically acceptable for "people in a position of influence" to dec= ry the actions of the Telco/Cableco duopoly rather than accept that LE BWIA= is actually an alternative for providing Broadband Internet Access. They d= on't want to admit (or understand) that LE BWIA is an alternative fo= rm of providing Broadband Internet Access that's equally open to community = not-for-profit groups to serve the underserved, individual entrepreneurs wh= o see a potential market, government entities to deploy Broadband Internet = Access to improve quality of life and accelerate economic development... or= even mere neighbors that are tired of individual $65/month Broadband Inter= net Access bills and inane restrictions on how they use the Broadband Inter= net Access connections that they paid for.

          To be clear, what we'= re talking about with LE BWIA is a technology... not a "movement". There is= now more than enough LE BWIA technology available to enable = people to do something about the coming stranglehold on Broadband In= ternet Access by the telcos and cablecos. "Movements" happen when people= to decide to use available technology to accomplish something. We see = examples daily what people can do on the Internet... I think we're a= bout to see just how much people can do about getting to the Interne= t, using License-exempt Broadband Wireless Internet Access... now that the = actions and stupidities of the telcos and cablecos are actively motivating = them to do so.

          * While Kevin Werbach is certainly influential, I= wasn't including him in this statement; I count Kevin among those of us wh= o do get it about LE BWIA.

          This article is Copyright © 2005= by Steve Stroh. Excerpts and links are expressly permitted (and encouraged= .)

          Categories:
          • Broadband Wireless Internet A= ccess / Broadband Wireless Access / Wireless Broadband / Wireless Access / = Fixed Wireless
          • Commentary / Editorial
          • Competitive Broad= band DSL
          • Competitive Broadband Cable Modem
          • Competitive = Broadband Fiber / FTTH / FTTP
          • Municipal Broadband Wireless / Muni= Wireless / Municipal Wi-Fi



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          Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless I= nternet Access / WiMAX at 11/01/2005 01:26:19 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Wed Nov 2 00:37:59 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jA26bxmU005639 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 00:37:59 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jA26bvLl005635 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 00:37:58 -0600 Received: from bla13.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22261FD623 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 22:42:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <17202032.1130913481534.JavaMail.root@bla13.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 22:42:11 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] Telco Stupidity? Route Around It! Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 (1 update - see below.)
          In 1993, John Gilmore said The net treats censorship as= a defect and routes around it.

          It's a profound statement.
          I have a corollary: License-exempt Broadband Wireless treats t= elco stupidity as damage and routes around it.

          So, I'm not p= articularly concerned about things like Kevin Werbach's observation of The T= elco Mindset.

          What Whitacre/SBC... Clearwire... Verizon Wire= less do not get... or are too frightened to admit even to themselves= is that David Isenberg rea= lly is right and in providing Internet access, they are a commodity service= - an IP bitpipe distinguished only in where I can access it, how much I pa= y, how fast/good it is... and that I'm only willing to pay for that = access when it suits my needs. If an Internet access service = doesn't suit my needs - Whitacre/SBC actively blocking Google because it wo= n't pay a toll to SBC or Clearwire blocking Skype or Verizon Wireless cutti= ng off my BroadbandAccess account because I use the voice capabilities of m= y various Instant Messenger applications... then I won't pay for their crip= pled (to me) services, and I now have alternatives.

          I've offered= the "telco stupidity as damage" observation/corollary to a number of peopl= e in a position of influence, and they don't seem to want to get it.= One reason I think that is is because the knowledge base regarding License= -exempt Broadband Wireless Internet Access (LE BWIA) of those "people in a = position of influence"* seems largely limited to "household" Wi-Fi, some in= teresting hobbyist experiments, the admitted hyping of WiMAX, and the mostl= y-potential large-scale deployments of Municipal Broadband Wireless systems= in major cities like Philadelphia and San Francisco.

          But in rea= lity, such a "knowledge base" doesn't even reflect the "tip of the iceberg"= of LE BWIA technology and systems that are now possible... and evolving...= and actively being deployed.

          We have the technology, and suffic= ient spectrum, to build any conceivable Broadband Infrastructure we want...= or need. How much money that any given situation will require is an issue,= and it may, at times, be cheaper and better to simply pay what it costs to= run fiber. But, it's now the case that building License-exempt Broadband W= ireless Internet Access (BWIA) infrastructure is always an option.
          But I think there's another reason that "people in a position of = influence" don't seem to want to get it about LE BWIA; I think it's because= they've spent much of their professional or academic or consulting lives d= ecrying the issues of availability of, pricing of, and restrictions on Broa= dband Internet Access... mostly relating to Telco/Cableco wireline B= roadband Internet Access.

          In short, it's simply more comfortable= , easier, more academically and politically acceptable for "people in a pos= ition of influence" to decry the actions of the Telco/Cableco duopoly rathe= r than accept that LE BWIA is actually an alternative for providing Broadba= nd Internet Access. They don't want to admit (or understand) that LE BWIA <= i>is           an alternative form of providing Broadband Internet Access that's = equally open to community not-for-profit groups to serve the underserved, i= ndividual entrepreneurs who see a potential market, government entities to = deploy Broadband Internet Access to improve quality of life and accelerate = economic development... or even mere neighbors that are tired of individual= $65/month Broadband Internet Access bills and inane restrictions on how th= ey use the Broadband Internet Access connections that they paid for.
          <= br />To be clear, what we're talking about with LE BWIA is a technology... = not a "movement". There is now more than enough LE BWIA technolog= y available to enable people to do something about the coming st= ranglehold on Broadband Internet Access by the telcos and cablecos. "Moveme= nts" happen when people to decide to use available technology to acc= omplish something. We see examples daily what people can do on the I= nternet... I think we're about to see just how much people can do about get= ting to the Internet, using License-exempt Broadband Wireless Intern= et Access... now that the actions and stupidities of the telcos and cableco= s are actively motivating them to do so.

          * While Kevin Werbach i= s certainly influential, I wasn't including him in this statement; I count = Kevin among those of us who do get it about LE BWIA.

          Update 1: Kevin replied in his blog. His = plaint - "Who is going to deploy unlicensed wireless broadband in a big way= ?". Reasonable question... but he's asking it from a "... versus the telcos= /cablecos perspective."

          Surprisingly (given Kevin's perspective*= *), in asking that particular question, Kevin misses the entire point about= License Exempt Broadband Wireless Internet Access. With License-exempt BWIA, centralization... a single, o= r big "who" simply isn't required. The answer to Kevin's plaint is: many, <= span style=3D"font-style: italic;">many players will deploy License-= exempt Broadband Wireless Internet Access... and collectively, it will be "= ... in a big way". Municipal governments will deploy it. Enterprises will d= eploy it. Individual Internet Service Providers will deploy it. Public safe= ty agencies will deploy it. Philadelphia deploys it. Dartmouth College depl= oys it. Odessa Office Equipment deploys it. San Diego County Sherriff's Dep= artment deploys it.

          Kevin's also got the question entirely backw= ards. It's not that a question of how are the smaller players going to win = broadband customers away from the telcos/cablecos... but rather how are the= telcos/cablecos going to keep their existing customers from defecting? At = this point it's the telcos/cableco's fight to lose, and all the smaller pla= yers will now be steadily inflicting, if not the death of..., then at least= the pain of a thousand cuts to the monolithic business model of the telcos= /cablecos. If the telcos/cablecos want to avoid those customers from defect= ing every time they're offered a better deal (and remember, the product in = question allows those same customers to easily learn that there are, in fac= t, a growing number of alternatives to pricey, mediocre Broadband service -= DSL Reports now lists Wireless Broadband Service Providers), then they can= 't get away with clueless behavior for very long.

          ** Kevin's Supernova conference statement: = "The Supernova conference focuses on the decentralization of computing, com= munications, digital media, and business."


          This article is= Copyright =C2=A9 2005 by Steve Stroh. Excerpts and links are expressly per= mitted (and encouraged.)

          Categories:
          • Broadba= nd Wireless Internet Access / Broadband Wireless Access / Wireless Broadban= d / Wireless Access / Fixed Wireless
          • Commentary / Editorial<= br />
          • Competitive Broadband DSL
          • Competitive Broadba= nd Cable Modem
          • Competitive Broadband Fiber / FTTH / FTTP
          • Municipal Broadband Wireless / MuniWireless / Municipal Wi-Fi


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          Posted by = Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX at 11/0= 1/2005 10:37:00 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Fri Nov 4 11:48:38 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jA4Hmcqx026571 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 11:48:38 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jA4HmcLl026567 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 11:48:38 -0600 Received: from bla162.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D7BD1FD4E2 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:52:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19665510.1131126516678.JavaMail.root@bla162.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:52:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 11/04/2005 09:48:09 AM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 If It Can Happen In Aurora...

          MuniWire= less.com reports:

          Aurora, Illinois looks to citywide Wi-Fi

          Auror= a, Illinois is considering a plan to bring citywide wireless broadband acce= ss. The city will use the network for municipal operations (public safety) = but also offer public access. They have not yet determined which model they= will follow. The mayor will introduce the plan this week, together with th= e 2006 budget. He is seeking $5 million to deploy the network (the city cou= ld also issue bonds to raise the money). An interesting piece of trivia: Au= rora was the first city in the US to be wired for street lighting.
          Aurora is west of Chicago, covers 38 square miles (98 square kilometers)= and has 170,000 residents.


          This article leaped out at= me, out of a stream of similar announcements on Municipal Broadband Wirele= ss plans, because I happen to know that the Aurora area is currently= served by a capable Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) - PDQLink Wireless.

          That the city of = Aurora is considering a Municipal Broadband Wireless system is representati= ve of a situation I've been advising WISPs about in the last few years when= I've been given talks and presentations at WISP conferences such as WISPCON and WINOG. That is, municipal governments are increasingly motivated to= deploy their own Broadband Wireless Systems, and doing so without much reg= ard to whether WISPs are already providing similar or competing services in= an area.

          I contacted Michael Anderson, one of the partners in P= DQLink, and Chairman of PART-15.ORG = for comment about Aurora's citywide Wi-Fi plans. Anderson said "First, I do= n't believe that license-exempt spectrum should be used for public safety b= ecause of the interference issues. Second, I don't feel that tax dollars sh= ould be used to compete against me."

          (As a side issue, I disagre= e with Anderson on several points. There's ample precedent for the reliable= use of license-exempt spectrum for public safety use such as the extensive= 2.4 GHz network of the San Diego County Sheriff's department, Motorola's M= otoMesh productwhich combines public safety (4.9 GHz) spectrum with license= -exempt (2.4 GHz) spectrum, and many, many other examples. As for th= e tax dollars issue... governments increasingly feel that access to reasona= bly-priced Broadband Internet, in this era, is both an economic development= issue and a qualify of life issue... enabled by new technology that makes = it possible for municipal (and other) governments to cost-effectively deplo= y and operate their own Broadband Wireless Internet Access systems.)
          <= br />Unfortunately for WISPs, this is an unstoppable trend, and many WISPs = are in denial and generally unprepared for when this situation occurs in th= eir service areas.


          By Steve Stroh

          This article = is Copyright © 2005 by Steve Stroh. Excerpts and links are expressly p= ermitted (and encouraged.)

          Categories:
          • Broad= band Wireless Internet Access / Broadband Wireless Access / Wireless Broadb= and / Wireless Access / Fixed Wireless
          • Outdoor / Long Range / Pub= lic Wi-Fi / WiFi / 802.11a / 802.11g / 802.11b
          • 2.4 GHz Spectrum<= br />
          • Municipal Broadband Wireless / MuniWireless / Municipal Wi-Fi
          • Wireless Cloud
          • Wireless Internet Service Provider / WISP /= WISPs



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          P= osted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX at = 11/04/2005 09:48:09 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Mon Nov 7 00:32:50 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jA76Wo1C000494 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 00:32:50 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jA76WnLl000490 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 00:32:49 -0600 Received: from bla32.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98B931FD4C4 for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 22:37:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <31240745.1131345167148.JavaMail.root@bla32.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 22:37:11 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] Telco Stupidity? Route Around It! Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 (2 updates - see below.)
          In 1993, John Gilmore said The net treats censorship a= s a defect and routes around it.

          It's a profound statement.<= br />
          I have a corollary: License-exempt Broadband Wireless treats = telco stupidity as damage and routes around it.

          So, I'm not = particularly concerned about things like Kevin Werbach's observation of The = Telco Mindset.

          What Whitacre/SBC... Clearwire... Verizon Wir= eless do not get... or are too frightened to admit even to themselve= s is that David Isenberg re= ally is right and in providing Internet access, they are a commodity servic= e - an IP bitpipe distinguished only in where I can access it, how much I p= ay, how fast/good it is... and that I'm only willing to pay for that= access when it suits my needs. If an Internet access service= doesn't suit my needs - Whitacre/SBC actively blocking Google because it w= on't pay a toll to SBC or Clearwire blocking Skype or Verizon Wireless cutt= ing off my BroadbandAccess account because I use the voice capabilities of = my various Instant Messenger applications... then I won't pay for their cri= ppled (to me) services, and I now have alternatives.

          I've offere= d the "telco stupidity as damage" observation/corollary to a number of peop= le in a position of influence, and they don't seem to want to get it= . One reason I think that is is because the knowledge base regarding Licens= e-exempt Broadband Wireless Internet Access (LE BWIA) of those "people in a= position of influence"* seems largely limited to "household" Wi-Fi, some i= nteresting hobbyist experiments, the admitted hyping of WiMAX, and the most= ly-potential large-scale deployments of Municipal Broadband Wireless system= s in major cities like Philadelphia and San Francisco.

          But in re= ality, such a "knowledge base" doesn't even reflect the "tip of the iceberg= " of LE BWIA technology and systems that are now possible... and evolving..= . and actively being deployed.

          We have the technology, and suffi= cient spectrum, to build any conceivable Broadband Infrastructure we want..= . or need. How much money that any given situation will require is an issue= , and it may, at times, be cheaper and better to simply pay what it costs t= o run fiber. But, it's now the case that building License-exempt Broadband = Wireless Internet Access (BWIA) infrastructure is always an option.<= br />
          But I think there's another reason that "people in a position of= influence" don't seem to want to get it about LE BWIA; I think it's becaus= e they've spent much of their professional or academic or consulting lives = decrying the issues of availability of, pricing of, and restrictions on Bro= adband Internet Access... mostly relating to Telco/Cableco wireline = Broadband Internet Access.

          In short, it's simply more comfortabl= e, easier, more academically and politically acceptable for "people in a po= sition of influence" to decry the actions of the Telco/Cableco duopoly rath= er than accept that LE BWIA is actually an alternative for providing Broadb= and Internet Access. They don't want to admit (or understand) that LE BWIA = is an alternative form of providing Broadband Internet Access that's= equally open to community not-for-profit groups to serve the underserved, = individual entrepreneurs who see a potential market, government entities to= deploy Broadband Internet Access to improve quality of life and accelerate= economic development... or even mere neighbors that are tired of individua= l $65/month Broadband Internet Access bills and inane restrictions on how t= hey use the Broadband Internet Access connections that they paid for.
          =
          To be clear, what we're talking about with LE BWIA is a technology...= not a "movement". There is now more than enough LE BWIA technolo= gy available to enable people to do something about the coming s= tranglehold on Broadband Internet Access by the telcos and cablecos. "Movem= ents" happen when people to decide to use available technology to ac= complish something. We see examples daily what people can do on the = Internet... I think we're about to see just how much people can do about ge= tting to the Internet, using License-exempt Broadband Wireless Inter= net Access... now that the actions and stupidities of the telcos and cablec= os are actively motivating them to do so.

          * While Kevin Werbach = is certainly influential, I wasn't including him in this statement; I count= Kevin among those of us who do get it about LE BWIA.

          Update 1: Kevin replied in his blog. His= plaint - "Who is going to deploy unlicensed wireless broadband in a big wa= y?". Reasonable question... but he's asking it from a "... versus the telco= s/cablecos perspective."

          Surprisingly (given Kevin's perspective= **), in asking that particular question, Kevin misses the entire point abou= t License Exempt Broadband Wireless Internet Access. With License-exempt BWIA, centralization... a single, = or big "who" simply isn't required. The answer to Kevin's plaint is: many, = many players will deploy License= -exempt Broadband Wireless Internet Access... and collectively, it will be = "... in a big way". Municipal governments will deploy it. Enterprises will = deploy it. Individual Internet Service Providers will deploy it. Public saf= ety agencies will deploy it. Philadelphia deploys it. Dartmouth College dep= loys it. Odessa Office Equipment deploys it. San Diego County Sherriff's De= partment deploys it.

          Kevin's also got the question entirely back= wards. It's not that a question of how are the smaller players going to win= broadband customers away from the telcos/cablecos... but rather how are th= e telcos/cablecos going to keep their existing customers from defecting? At= this point it's the telcos/cableco's fight to lose, and all the smaller pl= ayers will now be steadily inflicting, if not the death of..., then at leas= t the pain of a thousand cuts to the monolithic business model of the telco= s/cablecos. If the telcos/cablecos want to avoid those customers from defec= ting every time they're offered a better deal (and remember, the product in= question allows those same customers to easily learn that there are, in fa= ct, a growing number of alternatives to pricey, mediocre Broadband service = - DSL Reports now lists Wireless Broadband Service Providers), then they ca= n't get away with clueless behavior for very long.

          ** Kevin's Supernova conference statement:= "The Supernova conference focuses on the decentralization of computing, co= mmunications, digital media, and business."

          Update 2: There was a good summary of the fallout fro= m Whitacre's remarks in a Washington Post article - S= BC Head Ignites Access Debate. Despite the fact that Whitacre claims he= was misquoted and misunderstood and his remarks were intended to refer to = the "private" portions of their new fiber optic network intended for video = ("cable television"), few seem to believe him (including me). His remarks j= ust don't make sense in the changed context - Google is not a major yet player in video, and he specificall= y stated "Internet", not IP Video. It may be that with his remarks, Whitacr= e has provided enough fuel for a renewed call for network neutrality. Go Ge= t 'Em, David!

          Robert Horvitz of Open Spectrum Foundation / openspectrum.info= (a great resource!) summarized the "debate" between Kevin Werbach and I. My = response to Horvitz stated in part "... left out what I think is the bigger= picture that I addressed - why [Werbach's] "policy wonk" colleagues don't = seem to want to get it about License-exempt Broadband Wireless Internet Acc= ess being (enough of) an effective alternative to the telcos.".

          = This article is Copyright =C2=A9 2005 by Steve Stroh. Excerpts and links ar= e expressly permitted (and encouraged.)

          Categories:
          =
          • Broadband Wireless Internet Access / Broadband Wireless Access / Wi= reless Broadband / Wireless Access / Fixed Wireless
          • Commenta= ry / Editorial
          • Competitive Broadband DSL
          • Comp= etitive Broadband Cable Modem
          • Competitive Broadband Fiber / = FTTH / FTTP
          • Municipal Broadband Wireless / MuniWireless / Mu= nicipal Wi-Fi


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          Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / = WiMAX at 11/05/2005 08:02:00 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Mon Nov 7 08:52:45 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jA7EqjdR021039 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 08:52:45 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jA7EqiLl021035 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 08:52:45 -0600 Received: from bla168.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A9E1197B3 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 06:52:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <17839102.1131375178608.JavaMail.root@bla168.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 06:52:58 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 11/07/2005 06:52:35 AM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 XG Technology xMAX

          As I understand it, XG Technology with their xMAX system = (clever associative wordplay on WiMAX) has figured out a way to do Broadban= d Wireless Internet Access by using a powerful, "single channel" as a "pilo= t carrier", and transmitting very low power, "wide channel" data in occupie= d portions of spectrum, but doing so at power levels that effectively "unde= rlay" the current uses and thus cause no interference. The claim is that ne= eding only "clear spectrum" only for the pilot carrier, an xMAX can operate= nearly anywhere in the RF spectrum, especially the very crowded spectrum b= elow 1 GHz.

          I know what I don't know, so while I'm skepti= cal, I'm willing to be convinced about XG Technology's claims for xMAX.

          Knowing what I know... I can somewhat grasp the merit of their over= all approach, and especially the idea of "synchronizing" the receiver so it= can tune in the "wide channel" data at low power levels, but what I have t= rouble with is that such low power signals can propagate... at all..= . the distances that they are claiming, let alone propagating those distanc= es in the presence of other high-power transmissions in the same spectrum a= s the "wide channel" data.

          I'm not sure what to make of their recent test= (good overvi= ew in MRT Magazine). Simply, the parameters of that test didn't seem to= have much relevance for what they're claiming, overall, with xMAX - long r= ange, high-bandwidth communications using very low power levels in occupied= spectrum.

          So... we'll see. In the eight years now that I've bee= n watching Broadband Wireless Internet Access, I've seen so many promising = technological approaches not even get a chance for reasons unrelated to the= merits of the technology. While the climate for venture funding of a wildc= ard idea like xMAX may be favorable for XG Technology to impress potential = investors, the real test is whether XG Technology can field an actual xMAX = system for revenue service. Even then, there are the challenges of getting = rapid, widespread adoption so they can scale their technology into economic= al production.

          If not, XG Technology won't be the first to make grandiose claims for = a new Broadband Wireless Internet Access technology that didn't go anywhere= .


          By Steve Stroh

          This article is Copyright &cop= y; 2005 by Steve Stroh. Excerpts and links are expressly permitted (and enc= ouraged.)

          Categories:
          • Broadband Wireless Int= ernet Access / Broadband Wireless Access / Wireless Broadband / Wireless Ac= cess / Fixed Wireless
          • 902-928 MHz / 900 MHz Spectrum
          • La= unches / New Ventures
          • New Products



          -= -
          Posted by Steve Stroh to B= roadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX at 11/07/2005 06:52:35 AM From steve@stevestroh.net Tue Nov 8 14:51:05 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jA8Kp51I018866 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:51:05 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jA8Kp4Ll018862 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:51:04 -0600 Received: from bla35.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4864B197F8 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 12:51:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <10077360.1131483084219.JavaMail.root@bla35.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 12:51:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] XO Communications Exits Competitive Wireline Business To Join Competitive Fixed Wireless Business Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 (1 update - see below)<= br />
          XO Communications is a poster child for how badly one company ca= n fumble in Broadband Wireless Internet Access. I gather from the general b= usiness press that the company never really recovered from being mired in I= nternet bubble debt in all the markets it played in - building its own fibe= r net, conventional telephony, etc. So now it will sell off = its wireline business (and its brand name), the proceeds from which wil= l go to repaying its debt. At that point "XO" (again, minus the brand name)= will commence a Broadband Wireless services business.

          Good luck= to them with that. The-wireless-company-that-will-be-spun-out-of-XO will b= e entering an increasingly crowded metro point-to-point Broadband Wireless = business. Given that the new company will start life with an estimated $300= million, they could find some success, at least in the short term, in payi= ng customers to give them some business. Oh... wait... that's been done.

          For licensed metro point-to-point Br= oadbnad Wireless, there is First Av= enue Networks which picked up the 24 GHz spectrum from Teligent and 39 = GHz spectrum from Advanced Radio Telecom and now offers links-to-order and = fast, easy, relatively cheap spectrum leases for same. Winstar Government Solutions (the only part of the over= all Winstar business that IDT was able to salvage after their purchase from= bankruptcy) may or may not be offering leases of and internal use of their= 38 GHz spectrum. The-wireless-company-that-will-be-spun-out-of-XO will als= o have to contend with 70/80/90 GHz point-to-point links and easy, relative= ly cheap licensing from equipment vendors like GigaBeam.

          But mostly, the-wireless-company-that-wil= l-be-spun-out-of-XO will have to deal with the dramatic changes that techno= logy has wrought in the metro point-to-point Broadband Wireless business si= nce the time that XO obtained its 28 GHz spectrum licenses oh-so-dearly and= then couldn't quite figure out how to make profitable use of. Yes, there <= i>is more need than ever for "wireless bypass" in metro areas... but th= e options for those that need to build such links, especially license-exemp= t options, have dramatically expanded.

          The primary culprit in li= cense-exempt metro point-to-point Broadband Wireless is the 57-64 GHz band = - 7 GHz of spectrum, mile-plus ranges (and the oxygen in the atmosphere att= enuates signals much farther than that, so the paths don't get polluted for= miles), and pencil-think beams. The net result of the physical characteris= tics of 60 GHz is that while interference is certainly possible (as with al= l other RF technologies)... it's extremely unlikely. The economics o= f quantity production for 60 GHz are starting to kick in, at least at BridgeWave. Ceragon Networks has a 60 GHz option, and there are r= umors of others returning/entering the market such as YDI Wireless, er... T= erabeam Wireless, er... Proxim Wi= reless resurrecting their legacy Harmonix (and perhaps Telaxis) 60 GHz = systems for sale).

          Dra= gonWave endeared themselves to me some years back by sending me a press= release that not only introduced me to their (then) new AirPair system... = but also the license-exempt 24 GHz spectrum that it operated in. At the tim= e, I didn't know that there was a license-exempt 24 GHz band. There = is, and it's a great option for license-exempt metro point-to-point Broadba= nd Wireless links.

          Another license-exempt metro point-to-point B= roadband Wireless option is Free Space Optical from companies like fSONA, which despite the best efforts of the= "RF Bigots" continues to find a market (especially US Government).
          The bottom line is that for the metro point-to-point Broadband Wireless= business... you don't need licensed spectrum. Oh... there are the m= any that will make a case that licensed spectrum "buys" you "protection fro= m interference". No... a spectrum license only buys you remedy if in= terference is encountered, ultimately backed by the FCC aka the US Governme= nt. Oh, and licensed spectrum is an "asset" that investors like because it = can be reclaimed if a company goes away... which they tend to do with distr= essing frequency (no pun intended). But the savviest of those building metr= o point-to-point Broadband Wireless networks already know this, and are buy= ing, and building accordingly.

          Update 1 - Om Malik weighs in on this discussion, somewhat tangen= tially, in The Spectrum Bubble? One minor quibble - as I understand it, Fi= rst Avenue Networks (FAN) bought only the Advanced Radio Telecom (ART) spectrum assets out of bankruptcy co= urt. As far as I could tell, FAN had no legacy relationship to ART, and thu= s it's something of a misstatement to say that "ART became FAN".


          By Steve Stroh

          This article is Copyright =C2=A9 2005 by S= teve Stroh. Excerpts and links are expressly permitted (and encouraged.)
          Categories:
          • Broadband Wireless Internet Access= / Broadband Wireless Access / Wireless Broadband / Wireless Access / Fixed= Wireless
          • 24 GHz Spectrum
          • 28 GHz Spectrum
          • 38 GHz Spectrum
          • 39 GHz Spectrum
          • 6= 0 GHz / 57 - 64 GHz Spectrum
          • 70 GHz / 80 GHz / 90 GHz Spectr= um
          • Broadband Wireless Service Provider / BWSP
          • = Darwinian Effect Of License-exempt Wireless
          • Free Space Opti= cal / Free Space Optics / FSO / Laser Communications / Wireless Fiber
            =
          • Launches / New Ventures
          • Licensed Spectrum
          • License Exempt Spectrum / License-exempt / Unlicensed / No License


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          Posted by = Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX at = 11/08/2005 12:50:00 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Tue Nov 8 16:02:27 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jA8M2R5e021199 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:02:27 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jA8M2RLl021195 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:02:27 -0600 Received: from bla73.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 061161FD6AA for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:07:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5489766.1131487366914.JavaMail.root@bla73.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:07:16 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 11/08/2005 02:02:20 PM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Jeff Thompson Named CEO Of Towerstream

          "P= ersonnel" changes and announcements are rare on this weblog, so the excepti= ons are notable.

          Jeff Thompson has been promoted to CEO of Towerstream from Chief Operating Offi= cer, and Chief Technical Officer before that (he's also held the position o= f President in all three positions). The promotion is well deserved - Thomp= son is experienced, and highly capable, and he and now-Chairman Philip Urso= together founded what I consider to be the best Broadband Wireless Interne= t Access (BWIA) Service Provider in the US.

          Here are just som= e of the reasons I continue to be impressed with Towerstream:
            =
          • They understand what business they're in - move the IP bits, reliably a= nd cost-effectively, to and from the Internet. Yes, you can make goo= d money from such a "commodity" service. (I've never discussed it with anyo= ne from Towerstream, but I believe they understand and embrace "Stupid Network" principles.)
          • = They understand the key drivers behind their business model. Don't pay the = telco for backhaul transport, buy good equipment so you can use license-exe= mpt spectrum to provide reliable services, go-where and do-what the telco w= on't (and, increasingly, cannot - like 100 Mbps connectivity, quickly, pric= ed reasonably)
          • They share what they know to an amazing degree. Mos= t recently Thompson spoke at WiMAX World a few weeks ago and "gave away" th= e entire business model of Towerstream, and has done so in the past. It's n= ot the boxes that's the secret... it's how you use them, how you treat cust= omers, and how well you run your business.
          • They're pragmatic. They= use what works, they know that things cost what they cost, redundancy equa= ls reliability, what WiMAX is, and isn't...
          • They were the f= irst (that I'm aware of) BWIA Service Provider to be offered as a ser= vice on a par with wireline services by Bandwidth.com. This was a real milestone in the BWIA industry.
          • They got involved early in the WiMAX Forum and immediately started providing a reality check - "This = is how we make money with Broadband Wireless right now in the= real world, folks. Would you like us to tell you what we nee= d WiMAX to do so we can make more money." (That's not a quote!)
          • Not only were they the first BWIA Service Provider to formally = partner with Vonage... Vonage offered their first Small Business Partnership with Towerst= ream


          Now... Towerstream is being considered b= y Comcast? I, for one, sure hope that the gem that is Towerstream doesn= 't get consumed by Comcast... at least not for anything less than a very, v= ery handsome price :-)

          (This article might seem a bit "fawning".= Guilty as charged. I permit myself a small roster of real success stories = in my eight years of covering the BWIA industry, and Towerstream is one of = 'em.)


          By Steve Stroh

          This article is Copyright = © 2005 by Steve Stroh. Excerpts and links are expressly permitted (and= encouraged.)

          Categories:
          • Broadband Wireless= Internet Access / Broadband Wireless Access / Wireless Broadband / Wireles= s Access / Fixed Wireless
          • Broadband Wireless Service Provider / B= WSP
          • BWIA Barometer Service Provider - Towerstream
          • News<= br />
          • Personnel



          Below is the text of the formal Press Release.=

          TowerStream Co-Founder Jeff Thompson Named Chief Executive Offi= cer

          Former CEO Philip Urso to Lead Board of Directors
          Middletown, RI – November 8, 2005 — TowerStream, a leading f= ixed wireless Internet provider for businesses, today announced that Jeff T= hompson has been named CEO of the company, effective immediately. Philip Ur= so, who co-founded TowerStream with Thompson, moves from CEO to Chairman of= the Board. Under his new role, Thompson will oversee all strategic initia= tives while continuing to solidify the company’s status as a reliable= and cost-effective broadband solution for the commercial market.
          In 1995 Thompson founded eFortress, which grew into one of New England&r= squo;s largest ISPs and was eventually sold to Citadel Broadcasting in 1997= . After partnering with Urso to launch TowerStream in 2000, the company le= veraged second-generation multipoint fixed wireless technology to build an = expandable network in major cities across the U.S. As the technology and o= perations leader of TowerStream, Thompson was instrumental in developing th= e first successful business model to deliver fixed wireless broadband.

          “As TowerStream continues to grow and strengthen its positio= n as a leading fixed wireless broadband provider, there is no executive bet= ter suited to manage the expansion than Jeff Thompson,” stated Urso. = “As a proven businessman and skilled engineer, Jeff makes regular app= earances at industry events and is widely considered an expert in WiMAX, Wi= Fi, and mobile VoIP. His foresight and expertise has left TowerStream well-= placed as an innovative company in a very promising industry.”
          =
          TowerStream was the first service provider to join the WiMAX Forum. = With service currently offered in some of the largest markets in the U.S., = including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and Provide= nce, businesses of all sizes continue to benefit from TowerStream’s r= apid installations and reliable broadband connection. The service supports= VoIP, bandwidth-on-demand, wireless redundancy, VPNs, disaster recovery, b= undled data, and video services.

          “I am honored by the com= pany’s decision,” said Thompson. “Over the past five year= s, it has been a tremendous experience to bring TowerStream’s fixed w= ireless service into some of the nation’s top markets. The global mo= mentum behind WiMAX and its implications for the future of the Internet, as= well as the dedication I see everyday from TowerStream’s team of pro= fessionals, leads me to believe that the company has an extremely bright fu= ture ahead.”


          About TowerStream
          TowerStream is= a leading fixed wireless broadband provider in the U.S. Founded in 2000, = today the company has the largest pre-WiMAX deployment in the U.S. serving = such markets as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, the gre= ater Boston, Providence and Newport, R.I. areas, and is aggressively expand= ing coverage throughout the country. The company is the first carrier selec= ted to join the WiMAX Forum to assist leading vendors such as Intel, Alvari= on, Fujitsu, Aperto Networks and Proxim in establishing industry compliance= with international broadband wireless access standards and cross-vendor in= teroperability. For more information on TowerStream, please visit their we= bsite at: www.towerstream.com.

          (end)





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          Posted by Steve Stro= h to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX at 11/08/2= 005 02:02:20 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Wed Nov 9 12:51:37 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jA9IpbHY031837 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 12:51:37 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jA9IpaLl031833 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 12:51:36 -0600 Received: from bla149.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8983519744 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:51:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <10980636.1131562316516.JavaMail.root@bla149.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:51:56 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 11/09/2005 10:51:26 AM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 Authoritative White Paper On License-exempt Use Of Television Broadcast = Spectrum

          Since publically, but informally proposing* the ide= a of license-exempt sharing of the television spectrum using Smart Radio co= ncepts in January 2002, I've avidly followed the evolution of the idea. Sin= ce then, the idea has eventually found its way into a number of development= areas - an FCC 04-113 (PDF link), the formation of the IEEE 802.22 Committee (press release= with more detail), a number of notable efforts by the New America Foundation, and "everything else".
          FCC 04-113 is, from all indications, "stalled", and it will be a d= ifficult task to get it moving again in Chairman Kenvin Martin's new FCC gi= ven the intense negative response to the idea by the Television Broadcaster= s (as I predicted).

          One "everything else" element was a short-li= ved weblog devoted to the subject called Wireless Unleashed authored by four of my favorite people.)=

          While FCC 04-113 is, from all indications, "stalled", there are= indications that In= tel, Cisco, and Microsoft and other large companies are pushing hard to ge= t it moving again. An indication of the strange bedfellows this work is spa= wning is that excerpts from a private email mailing list called TVWHITESPACE<= /a> have leaked out onto a mailing list run by the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA), for w= hich the corporate interests of Intel, Cisco, and Microsoft would otherwise= have little in common. The "heat" in Congress over the repeatedly-stalled = conversion to Digital Television Broadcasting, and the resulting "full" con= version of TV channels 52-69 to commercial and public safety communications= use is causing related attention on license-exempt sharing of (remaining) = Television Broadcast Channels after the conversion to digital broadcasting = is complete.

          The New America Foundation has published a number o= f commendable briefs and white papers on the complex subjects of US Spectru= m Policy. Its latest (PDF Link) is:
          Issue Brief # 17 October 200= 5
          Reclaiming the Vast Wasteland
          WHY UNLICENSED USE OF THE WHIT= E SPACE IN THE TV BANDS WILL NOT CAUSE INTERFERENCE TO DTV VIEWERS
          By Michael J. Marcus, Paul Kolodzy and Andrew Lippman

          It's nine= pages of good reading, and I recommend it. The authors, the first two whom= I've met, and know by professional reputation, and have enormous respect f= or their technical capabilities, do a good job of knocking over the Televis= ion Broadcast industry's straw men objections to the "very idea!!!" of lice= nse-exempt communications use of unused Broadcast Television channels.

          While I understand the authors' intent in discussing all three metho= ds of insuring non-interference with Television Broadcasting - Listen Befor= e Talk, Geolocation/Database, and Local Beacon... in the real world only Li= sten Before Talk is the least bit viable... and I think that with a careful= reading will most readers will agree. With the amount of Digital Signal Pr= ocessing that can be inexpensively included in a new type of radio f= or license-exempt communications use of vacant Television Broadcast channel= s, it's completely viable that such a system could reliably e= xclude Television Broadcast channels that are actually in use for Televi= sion Broadcasting in a given area from being used for license-exempt co= mmunications. The complexities of embedding GPS receivers and a related dat= abase are fraught with peril and ultimately unworkable. This is particularl= y poignant when you factor in that it is all-but-certain that analog televi= sion broadcasting will have ceased by the end of the decade, and that over-= the-air television broadcasting is used by, at best, 15% (and declining) of= the television-viewing public.

          (end of discussion of New Americ= a publication)

          * My article, retitled to Wireless Smart Radio= , Heavy Lobbying Would Bring Wireless ISP Band and poorly edited, appea= red in Boardwatch Magazine Online - then at URL http://www.ispworld.com/boa= rdwatchonline/2002/jan02/technology-wireless.htm. Boardwatch is no more, an= d Light Reading, the subsequent owner of boardwatch.com removed all the for= mer content, but fortunately this article, at least, is available on the wonderful Internet Archives.

          I= n a sense of Deja Vu... only in the last few months have Wireless ISPs actu= ally begun to rally to this cause, though nowhere near the unified front th= at I recommended they would need to assume.

          Note that my proposa= l/article, I "start" at Channel 14, since all the Digital Television conver= sion proposals at the time stated that as part of the transition, Televisio= n Broadcast Channels 2-13 would also be surrendered because their spectrum = is far more valuable for communications use. Unlike Channels 14 and up, Cha= nnels 2-13 are not continuously located in the UHF band. Apparently the Tel= evision Broadcasters were able to maneuver themselves into retaining Channe= ls 2-13.

          I've subsequently learned that Channels 14-20 are used = in some urban areas for public safety two-way radio communications. Such us= age would be much more difficult to detect than television broadcasting, so= unless the Smart Radio can be made "smart enough" to detect such usage, I = would remove Channels 14-20 from consideration for license-exempt sharing. = In my research at the time that Channels 52-59 would also be reallocated in= to the "Lower 700 MHz Band". My last mea culpa is that Channel 37, while al= located, is reserved for Radio Astronomy nationwide and thus no transmissio= ns of any kind are allowed there. So, now my math on the available spectrum= is Channels 21-51, minus Channel 37, equals 29 channels, for a total of= 174 MHz of Television Broadcasting Spectrum - 512-608 MHz and 614-698 = MHz, that is potentially available for license-exempt communications use. T= hat's an incredible amount of spectrum, especially given that most... and o= ften all of that will be available in rural areas where the propagation cha= racteristics of this spectrum will be the most useful.


          = Below is the text of that article, as it appeared in Boardwatch Magazine On= line, January, 2002.

          Technology

          Wireless Smart Rad= io, Heavy Lobbying Would Bring Wireless ISP Band


          O= perating in the 2.4 GHz band can be a difficult challenge for many ISPs bec= ause of interference issues. An oft-mentioned "cure" for such problems is r= eserved spectrum for wireless ISP (WISP) use. The technology is there, the = obstacles are political. Broadcast lobbying forces, such as the National As= sociation of Broadcasters, in Washington would fight the proposal, and it w= ould take a united effort by service providers to push it to fruition.

          The idea of a WISP band has merit and is achievable, especially in t= he context of local ISPs providing a cost-effective service to address the = digital divide issue in non-metropolitan areas. The basic idea is to share,= strictly on a non-interference basis, unused television broadcasting chann= els 14 to 59.

          Channels 14 to 59 are the 470-746 MHz range and co= ntain 276 MHz of contiguous spectrum reserved for television broadcasting. = (Channels 2 to 13 and channels 60 to 69 are already slated for reallocation= .) In contrast, the 2.4 GHz band is only 83.5 MHz.

          Such a sharin= g scheme would only be possible with the emergence of a new type of radio -= a smart radio. A WISP smart radio (WSR) is programmed to survey the 470-74= 6 MHz spectrum. On any television channel where transmissions are heard, th= at channel is automatically "locked out" from being used by the radio.

          A smart radio can make such a decision (whether or not there is a po= tential interference problem on a channel) in milliseconds, versus humans m= aking the same decision in weeks, months or years.

          One of the pr= ime reasons for trying to make use of 470-746 MHz is that it has good penet= ration characteristics (trees don't stop signals at this frequency). Reason= able transmission power levels at 470-746 MHz are possible, with reasonable= safety. A maximum power limit of 10 watts should be ample.

          The = technology to build a WSR certainly exists. Frequency Hopping Spread Spectr= um (FHSS) modulation seems most applicable to WSR, as it can simply "hop ov= er" television broadcast channels that are in use. I further propose that W= SR be designed as a consortium, and standardization between manufacturers w= ould insure interoperability and drive down costs.

          Generating Re= venue and Acceptance

          There is a very real expectation that any n= ew use of spectrum must generate some income for the government. A revenue = generating approach that seems applicable to WSR is for a one-time "spectru= m tax" applied to the final purchase price of each WSR.

          The more= use made of spectrum (the more units sold), the more government revenue ge= nerated. The expense is directly proportional to use, and the expense is in= curred only after the additional business is generated.

          The main= obstacle in developing WSR is not technical. Television broadcasters and t= heir industry organization, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB; = www.nab.org), are powerful forces in Washington, D.C. Any non-broadcasting = use of television broadcasting spectrum will be fiercely resisted.
          Wireless ISPs could overcome this obstacle with effective representation= in Washington, D.C. To accomplish this, the WSR will require time, sustain= ed effort, financial support and experienced lawyers. The Wireless Communic= ations Association International (WCA; www.wcai.org) fulfills many of those= requirements, and is an established, effective presence in Washington, D.C= ., representing wireless broadband service providers and equipment manufact= urers.

          The WCA certainly doesn't currently have budget to tackle= a project as ambitious as WSR, nor the mandate. But if there were a ground= swell of wireless ISPs joining WCA, then it could happen. If you are inter= ested is joining the grass-roots effort, contact the WCA and find out how y= ou can contribute.

          One last suggestion is for manufacturers to b= uild in the capability for WSR to work at 420-450 MHz with some reasonable = substitution of components, with instructions on such a modification availa= ble only upon presentation of a valid amateur radio license. I, and my fell= ow 682,218 U.S. amateur radio operators, would greatly appreciate it.
          =

          (end of January, 2002 Boardwatch Magazine article)

          By Steve Stroh

          This article is Copyright © 2005 by= Steve Stroh. Excerpts and links are expressly permitted (and encouraged.)<= br />
          Categories:
          • Broadband Wireless Internet Acce= ss / Broadband Wireless Access / Wireless Broadband / Wireless Access / Fix= ed Wireless
          • 700 MHz Spectrum
          • Administrivia / Other Stev= e Stroh writing / venues / podcasts
          • License Exempt Spectrum / Lic= ense-exempt / Unlicensed / No License
          • License-exempt / Unlicensed= television / tv spectrum / 802.22
          • Policy / Regulations / Regulat= ory / Legal / FCC / Spectrum Allocation
          • Predictions / Forecasts /= Statistics / Numbers / Studies / White Papers / Reports

          <= br />
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I think that email notification of new posts is an important component of a weblog such as Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX. The way I'm doing it now has some significant problems, not the least of which is the overhead that comes in dealing with spam, which Mailman (mailing list software) really doesn't seem up to the challenge of. FeedBlitz (http://www.feedblitz.com) seems like a good solution, and I've decided to use it instead of Mailman. First, it seems like exactly the right product. It reads the RSS and sends that out as email. Second, it's free to me. Third, it requires (almost) no management on my part - it scans the blog once per day autonomously and FeedBlitz handles all the issues of dealing with email (and spam). To you, the basic service is free, and if you'd prefer a higher level of service, that's available for a fee. Overall, it seems like a good fit. I will forward you (those subscribed via Mailman) one example message from FeedBlitz so you can see what it looks like. So... I am now running FeedBlitz and Mailman in parallel... for another week or two at most, at which point I will cease using Mailman. If you'd like to continue to receive notification of new posts to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX weblog, please go to http://www.bwianews.com, and put in your email address in the "FeedBlitz box" on the right sidebar. You'll get a confirmation notice, etc. I wrestled with whether to "port" the list of Mailman subscribers over to FeedBlitz, but ultimately concluded that email is just too sensitive a thing for most people, so dealing with FeedBlitz, or not, will have to be a COMPLETELY opt-in experience on your part. If you do nothing, in a few weeks I will stop posting to the Mailman list, unsubscribe everyone, and terminate the list at which point you will cease receiving email notifications of new posts. 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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:44:19 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] 11/28/2005 01:43:54 PM Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 2006 Broadband Wireless Internet Access (BWIA) Conferences Of Note
          This list will be continuously updated throughout 2006 and re-pos= ted with a new date.

          Input on other BWIA-Related Conferences and= Events that you feel should be listed here would be appreciated - please send me email.

          January, 2006:=

          January 5-8, 2006 - Consumer Elec= tronics Association (CEA) 2006 Intern= ational Consumer Electronics Show (CES) - Las Vegas, Nevada USA.
          <= br />January 15-18, 2006 - Pacific Telecommu= nications Council (PTC) PTC'06 -= Honolulu, Hawaii USA.

          January 18-20, 2006 - Wireless Communications Association International (WCA / WCAI= ) International Sy= mposium & Business Expo - San Jose, California USA.


          =
          February, 2006:

          February 15-17, 2006 - Electro-comm Distributing ECX / 12th Annual EC Expo - Denver, Colorado USA.
          February 21-24, 2006 - Upper= Side Conferences WiMAX Summit Paris 2006 - Paris, France.

          Februar= y 27 - March 1, 2006 - Wireless Interne= t Service Providers Network Operators Group Wi*NOG - Austin, Texas USA.

          February 28 -= March 1, 2006 - Association and Co= mmunications Events Wireless Australia 2006 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.


          March, 2006:

          March 6-7, 2006 - MuniWireless.com Muniwireless Conference 2006 Atlanta - Atlanta, Geo= rgia USA.

          March 7-9, 2006 - Institute for Telecommunications Sciences (ITS) / National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) /= National Telecommunications and Infor= mation Administration (NTIA) / SAFECOM (Department of Homeland Security - DHS) / RF Globalnet / University of Colorado Department of Interdisciplinary Telecommu= nications 8th An= nual International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies (ISART) - B= oulder, Colorado USA.



          April, 2006:

          Ap= ril 5-7, 2006 - CTIA Wireless 2006 - Las Vegas, Nevada USA.

          April 26-28, 2006 - Shorecliff Comm= unications LLC Broadband Wi= reless World 2006 - Las Vegas, Nevada USA.



          May, = 2006:

          May 16-18, 2006 - The Golden Group / Jup= itermedia / Jupiterevents ISPCON Spring 2006 - Baltimore, Maryland USA.

          May 17-18, 20= 06 - Rock Media The Wireless Event - London, England, United = Kingdom.

          May 23-25, 2006 - WiMAX World WiMAX World 2006 E= urope - Vienna, Austria.

          May 24-26, 2005 - Delson Group 7th Worl= d Wireless Congress - San Francisco, California USA.



          June, 2006:

          June 7-8, 2006 - WowGao Wireless & Mobile World Expo - Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

          J= une 19-20, 2006 - MuniWireless.com<= /a> Muniwireless Conference = 2006 Silicon Valley - Santa Clara, California USA.

          June 27-3= 0, 2006 - Wireless Communications Associati= on International (WCA / WCAI) WCA 2006 Conference - Washington, DC USA



          = October, 2006:

          October 10-12, 2006 - WiMAX World W= iMAX World 2006 USA - Boston, Massachusetts USA



          = December, 2006:

          December 4-8, 2006 - International Telecommunications Union (ITU) ITU Telecom World 2006 - Hong Kong, China.



          (My Thanks To Tully's Coffee, Hollywood Vineyards - a friendly, comfortabl= e place to write on a frosty cold morning, and the best place to "Chat Wire= less" in Woodinville, Washington USA. They have paid Wi-Fi, but good Verizo= n BroadbandAccess coverage.)


          By Steve Stroh

          Thi= s article is Copyright © 2005, 2006 by Steve Stroh. Excerpts and links= are expressly permitted (and encouraged.)

          Categories:

          • Broadband Wireless Internet Access / Broadband Wireless Access /= Wireless Broadband / Wireless Access / Fixed Wireless
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          Posted by Steve Stroh to Broadband Wireless Internet Access= / WiMAX at 11/28/2005 01:43:54 PM From steve@stevestroh.net Wed Nov 30 08:14:15 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jAUEEFGU008015 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:14:15 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 207.115.64.66 Received: from charibdes.isomedia.com (charibdes.isomedia.com [207.115.64.66]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jAUEEFvi008011 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:14:15 -0600 Received: from [192.168.1.104] (pia140-152.pioneernet.net [66.114.140.152]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by charibdes.isomedia.com (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id jAUEEFNV023718 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher RC4-SHA (128 bits) verified NO) for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:14:16 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net From: Steve Stroh Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:14:00 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Subject: [bwia_posting] Administrivia - Last Reminder - Changing Email Notification For BWIA / WiMAX Weblog Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: A few weeks ago I wrote to you that email notification of posts to the Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX Weblog were going to change, and if you wanted to CONTINUE to receive such email notifications, you needed to act to sign up with the new service, FeedBlitz. Something I neglected to mention, but should have, is that the need for FeedBlitz, and email notification at all for any blog supporting RSS/XML is negated by ... using an RSS/XML FeedReader. On my Mac, I use the superb NetNewsWire. On the PC, the only one I've heard recommended with any regularity is Feed Demon. Time's almost up. As of the end of Friday, December 2, 2005 I will have switched over to notifications via FeedBlitz only. If you don't sign up with FeedBlitz you will no longer receive ANY email notification of posts to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX Weblog. For the moment, I've opted for the free / basic FeedBlitz publisher service, which means one email per day giving you a heads-up on all of the postings for the previous day (if any - no postings, no email). FeedBlitz has already proven itself to be superior to what I'm able to do myself with Mailman mailing list software. So... please do sign up with FeedBitz. Go to http://www.bwianews.com and put your email address into the text box on the right side for "Receive email when new articles are posted". Below is the original notice that I sent previously. Thanks, Steve Hello all... I think that email notification of new posts is an important component of a weblog such as Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX. The way I'm doing it now has some significant problems, not the least of which is the overhead that comes in dealing with spam, which Mailman (mailing list software) really doesn't seem up to the challenge of. FeedBlitz (http://www.feedblitz.com) seems like a good solution, and I've decided to use it instead of Mailman. First, it seems like exactly the right product. It reads the RSS and sends that out as email. Second, it's free to me. Third, it requires (almost) no management on my part - it scans the blog once per day autonomously and FeedBlitz handles all the issues of dealing with email (and spam). To you, the basic service is free, and if you'd prefer a higher level of service, that's available for a fee. Overall, it seems like a good fit. I will forward you (those subscribed via Mailman) one example message from FeedBlitz so you can see what it looks like. So... I am now running FeedBlitz and Mailman in parallel... for another week or two at most, at which point I will cease using Mailman. If you'd like to continue to receive notification of new posts to Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX weblog, please go to http://www.bwianews.com, and put in your email address in the "FeedBlitz box" on the right sidebar. You'll get a confirmation notice, etc. I wrestled with whether to "port" the list of Mailman subscribers over to FeedBlitz, but ultimately concluded that email is just too sensitive a thing for most people, so dealing with FeedBlitz, or not, will have to be a COMPLETELY opt-in experience on your part. If you do nothing, in a few weeks I will stop posting to the Mailman list, unsubscribe everyone, and terminate the list at which point you will cease receiving email notifications of new posts. You'll probably get an unsubscribe notice from Mailman when I manually unsubscribe everyone. To be clear, I have *no* relationship with FeedBlitz other than as a content provider and they're providing readers of the weblog with notification by email services. If you have any questions or comments, please email. Thanks, Steve --- Steve Stroh 425-939-0076 | steve@stevestroh.net | http://www.stevestroh.com From steve@stevestroh.net Thu Dec 1 23:55:45 2005 Received: from srv01.compumont.com (root@localhost) by stevestroh.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jB25tjnv027236 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 23:55:45 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.102.15.83 Received: from blogger.com (ftpout.blogger.com [66.102.15.83]) by srv01.compumont.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jB25tjvi027231 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 23:55:45 -0600 Received: from bla21.blogger.com (unknown [10.20.1.242]) by blogger.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 612301FD766 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 22:01:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <27942203.1133502948673.JavaMail.root@bla21.blogger.com> From: Steve Stroh To: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 22:01:23 -0800 (PST) Subject: [bwia_posting] [Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX] SKYTILITY Update Sender: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net Errors-To: bwia_posting-admin@stevestroh.net X-BeenThere: bwia_posting@stevestroh.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Articles on Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: =20 I was informed that as of December 1, 2= 005, my consulting relationship with SKYTILITY has been terminated, so I am no longer affiliated with= them.

          Any questions should be directed to SKYTILITY.


          By Steve Stroh

          This article is Copyright =C2=A9 2005 by Steve Stroh. Excerpts and = links are expressly permitted (and encouraged.)

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