DISH to blanket San Francisco with Crazy Fast Cell Service

[Scott Greczkowski]

http://gizmodo.com/dish-just-agreed-to-blanket-san-fran-with-this-crazy-ne-1687796988

 

[boba]

So Charlie makes another headline but it is just another "SOON" for DISH.

 

[rad]

The article says Artemis is going to blanket the Bay Area, Dish is only leasing the some of their spectrum to Artemis, not building a network.

 

[TheKrell]

I'd like to say that it's already being discussed in the Broadband Forum: http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/thr...k-spectrum-for-trial-in-san-francisco.347604/ but alas there resides only my one OP. It's a 2 year lease to Artemis in SF only. Artemis is doing all the work.

 

[KAB]

The article says Artemis is going to blanket the Bay Area, Dish is only leasing the some of their spectrum to Artemis, not building a network.

When someone wants to get from point A to B, own the road that gets them there. Leasing is VERY lucrative.

 

[Bobby]

The article says Artemis is going to blanket the Bay Area, Dish is only leasing the some of their spectrum to Artemis, not building a network.

The Bay Area, geographically, is over 100 miles long and 50 miles wide. I believe this test will will be SF only....

 

[Claude Greiner]

I wouldn't get too excited. It still needs govt approval

 

[jerryez]

Charlie has been buying Broadband spectrum for years. He wants to get into the cellular business, but does not know how. Kind of like his purchase of Blockbuster. He ,may have just lucked into the satellite business. Because he can't seem to get into any other business successfully.

 

[Yespage]

Sounds gimmicky and suspect to me. But it is a win-win for Ergan.

 

[KAB]

Sounds gimmicky and suspect to me. But it is a win-win for Ergan.

What's gimmicky and suspect about running a thorough test/trial?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Neat part of it is a lot of phones already support the technology including the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.

 

[Hall]

What's gimmicky and suspect about running a thorough test/trial?

It's not necessarily the company or companies doing the test/trial, but the conclusions that many will jump to over it.

 

[dangue]

What conclusions? This is basically being done as a proof of concept. The company that is licensing the spectrum does not have long term plans to operate their own wireless network. They want to show off the tech in a real world environment and then license to existing wireless carriers. Seems fairly straight forward to me. What conclusions are people going to jump to?

 

[dare2be]

What conclusions are people going to jump to?

 

[KAB]

What conclusions are people going to jump to?

The ones they want to, sadly.

 

[Yespage]

What's gimmicky and suspect about running a thorough test/trial?

I meant to say the tech seems gimmicky.

 

[KAB]

I meant to say the tech seems gimmicky.

If it is, it will only affect the owners of it.

 

[Yespage]

If it is, it will only affect the owners of it.

Yeah, hence why I said it is a win-win for Dish. They get paid for the lease and if this isn't a gimmick, they are in at the ground floor.