T-Mobile Pushing FCC for Delay in AWS-3 Rules
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The idea of the FCC mandating that cellular companies, like T-mobile, is obligated to allow that spectrum that they will PURCHASE to be free-open-access doesn't make sense.
What will be the incentive to spend billions of dollars on the rights to broadcast on a slice of spectrum spectrum which is very very expensive and offer it for free? I'm sorry there's no such thing as free... i can see why Tmobile wants to delay this. the only way this could make sense is that the cellco's that have to allow open access will allow other companies to use it as a medium to advertise and the cellco's make revenue from the ad's.
What will be the incentive to spend billions of dollars on the rights to broadcast on a slice of spectrum spectrum which is very very expensive and offer it for free? I'm sorry there's no such thing as free... i can see why Tmobile wants to delay this. the only way this could make sense is that the cellco's that have to allow open access will allow other companies to use it as a medium to advertise and the cellco's make revenue from the ad's.
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That's the idea, that ad revenue would make up for the access, or that the free connection would be a slower one and in order to access the faster speeds, you would have to pay. Or, the cost of the hardware, like a USB modem, would be prohibitively expensive, say $500-1000.
As I said in another post, Earthlink tried this with municipal wifi and it didn't work. Also, data cards are a major source for new activations for carriers. I don't see them giving away for free what customers are willing to pay $60 a month for.
As I said in another post, Earthlink tried this with municipal wifi and it didn't work. Also, data cards are a major source for new activations for carriers. I don't see them giving away for free what customers are willing to pay $60 a month for.
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