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by grahamburger 2962 days ago
Good question. Will have to see what happens as 5g becomes a reality.

A few years ago when WiMax was gonna be the 'next big thing' in wireless I remember a lot of people asking what we (WISPs) were gonna do cause it would put us all out of business. Two things happened: 1) We deployed WiMax gear for our customers. If WiMax succeeded we succeeded with it. 2) WiMax was terrible, we could provide much better service without it than with it. Currently many WISPs actually are deploying 4G-LTE equipment for their customers, and that actually works really well - so that's a good situation for WISPs and their customers. Yet to see what 5G will bring.
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udkl 2962 days ago
> Currently many WISPs actually are deploying 4G-LTE equipment for their customerS

What is the use case here ? Is this for business customers ? How do they manage regulations around 4G frequencies ?

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grahamburger 2962 days ago
Mostly residential customers. WISPs are mostly deploying in CBRS band (3.6Ghz) which is available for this explicitly. Check out Bai Cells for an example of the equipment being deployed: https://baicells.com
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udkl 2962 days ago
Thanks for answering. Do you have any idea of how the economics work out ?
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grahamburger 2962 days ago
Yeah, pretty good idea. As mentioned up the thread I run a web site dedicated to this kind of thing: https://startyourownisp.com/ we're getting kind of deep in the thread but I'd be happy to chat further via email. I think it's on my profile or my contact info is on that site.
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