Frequency Options available to WISPs
2.4 GHz Unlicensed PTMP
- Frequency is saturated and unusable in most areas for WISps
2.5 GHz Licensed PTMP
- Best choice for penetration, non line of sight (NLOS)
- Best performance due to no interference
- Hardest license to get, sprint has most of it locked down
- Work with a broker to explore the options like Spect Spectrum http://selectspectrum.com/Contact_Us.html
- The only guy I knew there left and I have not worked with them lately so this will be a cold call for you
3.65 GHz License lite
- Nationwide licenses not being issued by FCC
- Better than 5 GHz for NLOS
- Available product lines utilizing LTE technology with best NLOS up to 3 miles in foliage
- Licenses must be bought from existing holders, through brokers like Spect Spectrum http://selectspectrum.com/Contact_Us.html
- I would not consider any product on 3.65 that was not LTE and I would not consider any LTE product unless it was Baicells. We don't deploy Huawei or Telrad for WISP LTE, ask us why.
5 GHz Unlicensed PTMP and Backhauls PTP
LOS only
- More spectrum than 3 GHz
- Good performance with TDMA gear from Ubiquiti, best bang for the buck
- Low cost of entry, fast ROI
- Using for backhauls, while financially attractive, significantly reduces available spectrum for PTMP so advise against using for backhaul
11 GHz & 18 GHz Licensed Backhauls PTP
- Affordable, about $8k per link
- Licenses are easily obtained
- Great throughput, high reliability
24 Ghz Backhauls PTP
- Unlicensed
- High throughput
- Suffer from possible rain fade so reliability is an issue on longer links
- Low cost
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