[opendtv] Re: FCC rolls back net neutrality ISP transparency rules | InfoWorld
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 02:02:04 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Also, there is another potential way of distributing these
small indoor hotspots. Somewhat like OTA TV does with low-power
stations. Use licensed frequencies, but at very low power levels,
as all of these indoor devices must do, to avoid interfering with
macrocells. So for example, use a licensed frequency channel from
an adjacent macrocell, but not the same macrocell immediately
outside the establishment.
Uhhhh Bert...
Macrocells are not going to use the 5 GHz spectrum - that annoying
little argument about capacity versus coverage.
Doesn't matter, Craig. The telcos are already deploying small cells with their
spectrum. If they locate these indoors, at power levels in the mW range like
WiFi, they would still avoid interfering with the next macrocells beyond the
one outside the establishment. That weak signal would be swamped by the
macrocell's base station, within that macrocell. Unlike OTA TV, the strongest
signals are the ones that matter, with cellular. This way, they could charge
for those bits, while not having to further crowd the WiFi frequencies. Or, use
WiFi offload.
But these regulations made buildings more expensive, so the
construction industry lobbied to change the codes and was successful.
Thus, a fairly small storm - Hurricane Andrew - destroyed more than
25,000 homes in Homestead and Kendall, in southern Dade County. The
relaxation of the building codes played a role in this devastation.
Ya think? Talk about disproving your libertarian rhetoric.
But the major problem was that building inspectors were paid off to
approve shoddy construction.
The very best you can hope to "prove" is that there were TWO problems:
inadequate regulations, and inspectors on the take. Both are problems, Craig.
Bottom line, regulations are required, in many cases, to keep the special
interests from only worrying about their own short-term gains. You made the
extra leap, assuming that with regulations, you must have inspectors who are on
the take.
The first application to be deployed may be fixed wireless. WHY?
Because the service provider controls the equipment at both ends and
can afford the risk of deploying a non standard solution.o
That's part of it. The why is that the telcos have a cost problem, in deploying
faster home broadband service, because they frequently have only voice grade
twisted pair to homes. Wireless to homes, in spectrum that should be cost
competitive, available, and have high capacity, would be one good way to get
past the capacity barrier they face. G.fast might also be a way, but if
wireless and G.fast solutions have roughly the same range, wireless is pretty
attractive. It's easy to see why the appeal.
Bert
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