COMMENTARY: Cellular Carrier's Nightmare: Cable deploys 5G Universal Small Cells using 3.5Ghz Unlicensed Spectrum
Occasionally enough news comes out to support a hypothetical scenario.
3.5Ghz represents disruption AND has been carefully throttled or restrained to delay deployment.
Think of how mushrooms just pop up like lawn sprinkler heads out of the ground. Or how crabgrass and Blackberry brambles spread underground and then shoot up at a furious pace.
^THAT's^ a Cellular Carrier's Nightmare. Cable forms overnight flash networks using economical Universal cells transmitting over licensed and unlicensed spectrum and supplied by mmWave as hairy backbone tech.
So, now you have the foundation to recognize that 5G hype and mmWave deployment has absolutely NOTHING to do with profit or network performance. It is entirely marketing and brand positioning for leadership. Cable must never become the go-to high speed wireless offer. Repeat: WIRELESS.
Universal cells were required throughout China in the last round of cell deployments that created millions of towers per carrier. Universal Small cell roll outs followed.
China's Tower Corp SOE requires Universal tower access for which each carrier pays on proportion to their subscribers. Thus hardware providing all-band and all-carrier transmission has been developed - including small cell versions.
Now those are migrating eastward to the West; they have been since 2015.
When a cable company can deploy off-the-shelf Universal gear at scale from an ODM already producing at scale, the economics of competition are tossed on its head. They enjoy the economics of Chinese companies.
There is no weed killer to stop it in our market, unless you consider Congress and CFIUS stopping specific brands.
Add to that the known, proven, and already deployed technology of aggregated bands and massive MIMO (mMIMO) on 256QAM and you realize that LTE-A over 3.5Ghz, and aggregating multiple bands within the fat wide 200Mhz spectrum, each band only needing 5Mhz width using TDD-LTE or 10Mhz FDD, and transmitting at 150Mbps per band yields so-called gig-rates with just a few bands. This has already been proven in field tests. China is deploying now.
This is Cellular Carrier's Nightmare: their chainsaw massacre.
Think disruption. Think of Masa at Softbank/Sprint/Altice.
mmWave represents the hairy backbone supplying millions of smallcells distributing both 2.5Ghz and 3.5Ghz Unlicensed Spectrum in addition to roaming carrier spectrums.
This is the MVNO model disrupting the Big 4 and forcing Universal Devices.
(More to come.)
Time for more :popcorn:
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by Peter Jarich | Mar 5, 2018... 3.5 GHz propagation puts mmWave to shame... Enter massive MIMO. While we’ve all heard that massive MIMO solutions will help with mmWave propagation, operators at MWC this year began talking up their expectations of coverage at 3.5GHz if massive MIMO is used. Based on testing (and not just optimism) the expectation is that 3.5GHz 5G can match an existing 2.1GHz coverage grid—allowing existing site infrastructure to be leveraged... (ED: then add aggregation to get gig-rate downloads) Peter Jarich is the chief analyst (Global Telecom and IT) for GlobalData. Follow him on Twitter: @pnjarich
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AT&T eyeing GAA, but not too much until 3.5 GHz CBRS license rules are known by Monica Alleven | Mar 5, 2018 ... FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly said during AT&T's public forum on 3.5 GHz last month that the real point of contention appears to be around the appropriate geographic license area size for auctioning PALs. He was encouraged by reports suggesting that the parties involved with the CBRS band are moving away from their previous positions and starting to talk to one another about possible compromises. The FCC is expected to make a decision on 3.5 GHz CBRS band within the first half of this year...
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Wireless operators increasingly are combining unlicensed spectrum with licensed. Steve B. Sharkey, vice president, Government Affairs, Technology and Engineering Policy at T-Mobile, said during a FierceWireless event at MWC last week that if the GAA use moves forward this year, T-Mobile will be in a good position to start using the band under GAA. Then as the licenses are issued, it will be able to take advantage of that. He indicated that the early CBRS rollouts are likely to look a lot like LAA. |
