Dish teams up with nTelos to offer fixed LTE - 5mbit/sec

[mike123abc]

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Dish-nTelos-Fixed-LTE-Service-to-Offer-Around-5-Mbps-126814

Dish appears to be working the LTE market, but this deal does not seem to involve their acquired spectrum yet.

The companies plan to offer LTE using roughly 20 MHz of spectrum belonging to nTelos, with Dish's growing spectrum holdings potentially being incorporated sometime down the road. The focus is pretty clearly going to be more rural markets, where the service should offer faster speeds than DSL provided over aging copper.

 

[Stargazer]

They are doing some rural areas already ...

http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads...Telos-Aimed-at-Rural-Markets?highlight=ntelos

http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads...d-Wireless-Broadband-Service?highlight=ntelos

 

[mike123abc]

The big question is of course is if Dish is able to deploy its new LTE spectrum in enough places to meet its buildout requirements. Unless Dish gets busy soon, it could lose a lot of its licenses.

 

[dvrexpander]

They need to create little devices to mount on a dish to pick up LTE and allow you to get connectivity on every VIP receiver that is within range of even the weakest cell signal.

 

[Stargazer]

I think Dish is trying to get the FCC to allow them an extension. Dish needs to partner up with more people, such as Sprint.

 

[Stargazer]

They need to create little devices to mount on a dish to pick up LTE and allow you to get connectivity on every VIP receiver that is within range of even the weakest cell signal.

The problem with this is that the dish is most likely not going to point in the same direction that the cell tower is located, therefore a separate "radio" needs to be put up to receive the signal. Most "radios" have a flat panel antenna built into the board containing the wifi card in the device outside (the modem). An ethernet wire is then brought inside the home which provides data and power to a router inside the home. They could perhaps mount it to the dish but it would need its own reflector directed to the cell tower. There would need to be enough LTE signal to provide the service. The device can pick up a weaker signal than what a cell phone could due to the antenna and the power from the radio.

 

[gklyber]

Maybe that's what the second Ethernet port is on the hopper. Of course hopper with sling could act as a wifi hotspot.

 

[mike123abc]

Maybe that's what the second Ethernet port is on the hopper. Of course hopper with sling could act as a wifi hotspot.

Perhaps that is something for a future hopper design. An antenna on the dish and have the internet delivered over the coax to the Hopper which then acts as a wifi router for the house.

 

[dare2be]

The problem with this is that the dish is most likely not going to point in the same direction that the cell tower is located, therefore a separate "radio" needs to be put up to receive the signal. Most "radios" have a flat panel antenna built into the board containing the wifi card in the device outside (the modem). An ethernet wire is then brought inside the home which provides data and power to a router inside the home. They could perhaps mount it to the dish but it would need its own reflector directed to the cell tower. There would need to be enough LTE signal to provide the service. The device can pick up a weaker signal than what a cell phone could due to the antenna and the power from the radio.

Something like that could work well...build a mount that attaches to the top of the dish, so it could be aimed in any direction for optimum reception. Use the existing coax to send the internet signal, assuming there is room available on the already triple-stacked bandwidth to the Hopper.

 

[TheKrell]

Use the existing coax to send the internet signal, assuming there is room available on the already triple-stacked bandwidth to the Hopper.

It's not triply-stacked on the antenna coaxes.

 

[dvrexpander]

The problem with this is that the dish is most likely not going to point in the same direction that the cell tower is located, therefore a separate "radio" needs to be put up to receive the signal. Most "radios" have a flat panel antenna built into the board containing the wifi card in the device outside (the modem). An ethernet wire is then brought inside the home which provides data and power to a router inside the home. They could perhaps mount it to the dish but it would need its own reflector directed to the cell tower. There would need to be enough LTE signal to provide the service. The device can pick up a weaker signal than what a cell phone could due to the antenna and the power from the radio.

So when you wish to make a call you point the cell phone in a certain direction to a tower?? Nope, you just talk on it and the phone picks up thru the walls of the home or car. No need for a ethernet cable connected to anything you could even put a little plug in device into the ethernet port on the back of VIP models to pick up 3G/LTE signal much like any phone. No service required as Dish would already own the data stream which for them is very very little when it comes to STB Health checks. The issue here and why they won't do this is cause they want people connected to high bandwidth broadband so people will use their over priced services like downloading movies that cost way too much compared to other services.

 

[Stargazer]

You don't need an outdoor antenna to receive cell phone service because it does not require much data to talk on a phone. A smaller gain antenna such as those built into cell phones is all that is needed for such purposes. For larger amounts of bandwidth such as what is used on computers like videos a lot of areas do not have enough signal strength from the smaller gain antennas. That is why the outdoor antenna with built in radio/amplifier is needed.

If Dish only needed it for small amounts of data to the satellite receiver then a small antenna (omni/small panel) at the dish may suffice, perhaps a splitter to inject the signal.

 

[mike123abc]

You don't need an outdoor antenna to receive cell phone service because it does not require much data to talk on a phone. A smaller gain antenna such as those built into cell phones is all that is needed for such purposes. For larger amounts of bandwidth such as what is used on computers like videos a lot of areas do not have enough signal strength from the smaller gain antennas. That is why the outdoor antenna with built in radio/amplifier is needed.

If Dish only needed it for small amounts of data to the satellite receiver then a small antenna (omni/small panel) at the dish may suffice, perhaps a splitter to inject the signal.

That is true for normal cell phones, but, if Dish is trying to stretch the coverage area with fewer towers, an outside antenna may be a better bet.

 

[Stargazer]

The larger antenna's could also be used to bring cell/phone service to those that have too weak of a signal with the built in to the cell phones just as those that use cell phone boosters to get service.