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3.65GHz WiMAX

3.65GHz WiMAX -- Fixed and Nomadic Broadband Wireless for Urban, Suburban and Rural Markets (complimentary 5.nGHz Commercial & 4.9GHz Public Safety)

3.65GHz WiMAX can provide for low cost entry into the marketplace and empower Municipalities, Cities and Counties (and their destination markets within Urban, Suburban and Rural markets) with robust high speed ubiquitous core network services and applications that are required to sustain as a Community and Government. And as we move towards ‘E-Government’ this also would allow for seamless migration to the technologies that will inevitably be necessary to operate and enhance government productivity, leading to direct costs savings, while providing much needed funding for specific community outreach programs and initiatives.
 

As part of an addendum to the new American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) new language should be included that will outline specific local Public/Private partnership models that will be required for all Cities, Counties, Municipalities, or pretty much every entity desiring their own large scale broadband wireless network within the United States.
 

These Public/Private partnerships will be borne of the Cities and Communities they represent (and in which the network will reside), key stakeholders and private sector monies from banks within the Community or City, along with strategic partnerships with national non-profits like One-Economy Corp. or other Foundation / Philanthropic support to address Digital Access, Inclusion and Literacy initiatives.
 

Allowing any qualifying City, County, Municipality, or Community the ability to launch large scale 3.65GHz, 5.nGHz and 4.9GHz broadband wireless networks, formed as a Public/Private partnership, to provide core network and application access for their Citizenry, Businesses, and Local Governments, Communities or constituents in Urban, Suburban and Rural markets would provide for the following:


• Enhanced Public Safety, First Responder Applications
• Municipal Departmental Applications
• Reduced cost communications and internet core access for residents, businesses, visitors and tourists
• VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol using any qualified provider or proprietary build)
• High speed ubiquitous broadband wireless communications and internet access for Urban, Suburban and Rural markets
• Health Care and TeleMedicine Services
• Digital Access, Inclusion, Literacy Programs (Low-Income Households)
• Economic Stimulus
• Destination Market services, portals and applications
• Public access “television”
• Public Utility Services
• Local business internet marketing services, residential, and community portals
• Deploy New Energy Technologies / Energy Management Services (EMS) / Green Initiatives
• Matching rebate scheduling and/or energy credits through the State Energy Offices
• School system enhancements / Educational tools
• Public Employee Services
• VPN’s / VAR’s / Reseller Services
• Employer Outreach / Distance Learning & Training
• Exponential Job Creation by providing core communications and internet access in Urban, Suburban and Rural markets
• Visitor Services / Hospitality Packages
• Private Security / Video Surveillance / DVR Remote Access
• Digital Connectors Programs for Low-Income Individuals and Households


Allowing Municipalities or Counties to provide their Citizenry and Businesses, within Urban, Suburban and Rural markets, with the above mentioned core communications, internet access and local services; and to maintain consistent revenue streams from core access and services would trigger:
 

• A much faster rollout of newer 3.65GHz WiMAX (fixed, nomadic) and 2.5GHz WiMAX (mobile) deployments and future 700MHz broadband deployments
• The realization that this unique approach represents a fundamental improvement to traditional operating and revenue models in the broadband wireless arena and will facilitate migration to newer technologies
• Provides for a competitive market in the municipal wireless arena by allowing more equipment manufacturers and VAR’s to enter the US market
• Incumbent network operators and service providers would be able to build from that core infrastructure to provide the enhanced entertainment and communications services that they currently offer and/or new equipment and services based on other forms of fixed and mobile digital media, entertainment, and communications
• Overall improvement in nationwide spectrum management
• City broadband would be able to facilitate and help to fund the deployment and operations of 700MHz commercial broadband and the PSST Nationwide 700 MHz D-Block Public Safety Network along with assigned or contracted public broadband services available through D Block spectrum and;
• Development and deployment of a business model that basically funds itself
If city 3.65GHz WiMAX, nationwide 2.5GHz WiMAX, and 700MHz are all expected to compete for core internet access and services in the same market, in conjunction with enhanced service offerings, then this will actually lead to a less competitive market, higher costs, and even worse spectrum management.
 

While core internet access and municipal services in 3.65GHz WiMAX will be an integral part of any urban, suburban and rural broadband deployment, it is also these core services that are going to present a unique and feasible solution for sustainable large scale wireless broadband operating and revenue models in 2.5GHz WiMAX and 700MHz spectrum.
 

As we move forward it is important to address the needs of Communities and Municipalities from both a technological and socio-economic scale. The last thing that Cities or Communities need is for large network operators or service providers to blanket these areas with expensive coverage and compete to pull every dollar they can from those Cities or Communities that are fighting to sustain themselves.
 

Budget concerns, public safety, re-development, economic stimulus, digital divide and socio-economic issues all weigh heavily in the day to day operations of local municipal government and the well is drying up. It is for these reasons that the Community Broadband Act of 2007 was authored and is up for approval by government officials.
 

It has been said that Cities should be able to offer broadband services much like they offer water, sewer, and garbage pickup. While this may seem like a no-brainer to some people, this bill has met with opposition from incumbent Telco’s and cable companies for reasons that can only be explained (amicably) as self-serving with the mask of responsibility to stock holders.
 

It is hard to fathom that these same stockholders would rather see the slow demise of the Communities they live in because of nominal increases (and decreases) in stock share values of large Telco’s and cable companies. In fact, these stockholders will have a direct effect on their investments and sustainability of the Companies they are vested in by demanding changes in business and revenue models before the market takes them over.
 

Finally, fixed and nomadic 3.65GHz, 5.8GHz and 4.9GHz (PS mobile) broadband wireless deployments for Rural markets are going to provide better service and much faster speeds than that of DSL, Cable, or AirCards used by Public Safety in Urban, Suburban and Metro markets… so in essence Rural communities will be receiving better service than their Urban and Suburban counterparts. How does the NTIA, RUS and the FCC plan on dealing with this issue and the many inquiries and demands from the American People, Businesses, and First Responders saying “we want that”?


With all of that said, it is important that the FCC, federal government officials, Local Government, businesses, citizens and the large incumbent network operators and service providers look to fundamentally improve upon traditional deployment, operations, and revenue models and develop strategies that will benefit all involved.


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