On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 09:52:22PM +1100, cfb wrote:
As for competing with IHug, after reading over the seniority unlicensed spectrum rights clause in the APE's peering agreement, you'll soon understand that you're not "competing" with anything but the envy that commercial providers might have of your success in distributing the service. In short, plan to be shut down if you even think about doing DSSS on the Sky Tower without the blessing the existing tenants.
At the time that I was looking at it, the clause in question had yet to be tested (or even understood in any consistent way). The most pervasive interpretation I heard from JDA at the time was that tenants were not permitted to radiate frequencies from the tower which would interfere with receivers operated by other tenants. This seems a highly sensible precaution, and hardly restrictive if you place and shape your antenna carefully. Unfortunately, there are other common interpretations which replace the word "receiver" with "service", implying that if the performance of a receiver off-tower must not be impacted by a the some unrelated transmitter on the tower. This seems sensible for licenced spectrum, but absurd in an unlicenced context. One comment I heard in relation to these restrictions was that "Sky City had to make some extra concessions in order to attract Walker Wireless to the tower". There being so many other competing high- altitude colocation facilities in the city. Or something. Joe --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog