Javik
Premium
join:2006-10-02
Gilman, WI
| 700mhz for low-population broadband service areas?
This is a followup to the old thread that apparently can't be replied to: CenturyTel »centrytel wireless game plan
I notice something rather interesting while looking at the planned 700mhz service area map on CenturyTel's web site. The wireless regions generally seem to correspond to lower population areas of the USA. Compare these two maps:
(from »www.centurytelembarqmerger.com/a···dex.html )
(from »www.mapofusa.net/us-population-d···-map.htm )
•The Michigan/UP area is fairly low density and much of it is National Forest land
•The Colorado/New Mexico area is low density... covering the Comache National Grassland and the Rio Grande National Forest.
•The whole Missouri/Arkansas/Lousiana area is medium/low density, neatly covering the low-density zone between Kansas City and St Louis, and a little hole punched out around Montgomery, Alabama
•Western Montana is a huge swath of no-man's land, as is eastern Washington state.
There is very little overlap of the 700mhz regions with the deep-red population zones of the lower map.
So it would appear that the game plan for CenturyTel CenturyLink is that for the customers who are out in the sticks, and really expensive to connect on DSL... they're going to get 700mhz broadband instead. |
|
dsldude08
Premium,VIP
join:2008-01-03
La Crosse, WI |  |
|
Ring Trip
BP-Link
join:2009-03-17
La Crosse, WI | reply to Javik
...maybe. All indications so far here is that the 700Mhz will be core network, not last-mile. |
|
iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
 ·Comcast
 ·Qwest.net
 ·magicjack.com
 ·BeeCreek Communica..
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| reply to Javik
Interesting. If 700MHz is used for core network, CTel had better be using some efficient radios, because there's not a ton of spectrum there. That said, 700 MHz backhauls could provide a T3-class backhaul to remotes that are out in the middle of nowhere, allowing for 5/2 or better DSL if ADSL2+ Annex M was used. |
|
