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Have you looked at the price of radio spectrum recently ? This would never fly. Even a small sliver of spectrum for one country costs more than Marriott is wort
by waps 12y ago
Have you looked at the price of radio spectrum recently ? This would never fly. Even a small sliver of spectrum for one country costs more than Marriott is worth.
Which is of course why they're trying to get it for free.
- ghshephard 12y agoThis depends entirely on how much spectrum, how much power, and how geographically diverse you want to deploy. Without going into too many details, I can say that purchasing 500 milliwatts of EIRP transmit power in a small urban area (<10 sq km) of 5 MHz of spectrum in one country of population < 10mm people can be had for ~ $2mm/year.
- ansgri 12y ago5MHz's unlikely to bring you any high-quality internet connection for many tens of guests, we should be looking at 100MHz at least.
- derekp7 12y agoMaybe it would be too expensive for Marriott to buy outright, but not for some equipment manufacture that can make up the money in licensing fees. That's what I was referring to -- someone like Cisco could acquire a chunk of spectrum, license it out for free for client side chipsets (call it 802.11x or something), and charge venues like Marriott for the base stations (and of course geographically control them so there is no overlap / interferience). Kind of like how Motorola owns the frequencies for some of their 2-way radios.