We're offering a seminar on November 14 for folks that are investigating the WISP market, or are getting into it but want to know the nuts and bolts of implementation.
This is ideal for rural guys and organizations that want to pilot a wireless ISP, possibly building on a single T-1 in a centralized location. It's a cookie-cutter approach to deployment with variations based on terrain. If you have a lot of flat, treeless areas, the 5 GHz band may be best for you if you have to compete against DSL and want to do a residential/business ISP play. If you have to compete against DSL and Cable, you're going to be doing hotspots, either free or paid. In a heavily treed area, you may have to drop back to 900 MHz and accept lower bandwidth for today.
Its a day of consulting about the nuts and bolts of implementing the business plan and the technology plan, with an eye toward expansion and getting to market. I think what's going to happen is that there's going to be a land rush in the the non DSL and Cable served territories to grab up customers, just like the low-hanging fruit of the hospitality industry was collected a couple years ago. Some providers will have success against copper DSL plants by delivering higher upload speeds than DSL will. Once these local guys get into place, and established, competitors will spring up, interference will ensue, and at some point, either the ILEC or a Clearwire type entity will come along, buy up the top one or two WISPs, and then convert those customers over to licensed spectrum equipment.
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