{"id":101,"date":"2007-11-07T22:02:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T02:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/11\/07\/us-wireless-carriers-bandwidth-spectrum\/"},"modified":"2007-11-07T22:02:14","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T02:02:14","slug":"us-wireless-carriers-bandwidth-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/11\/07\/us-wireless-carriers-bandwidth-spectrum\/","title":{"rendered":"US Wireless Carriers: Bandwidth &#038; Spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good blog posting about who has and who hasn&#8217;t bandwidth &amp; spectrum amongst the US Mobile phone networks:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.gnome.org\/dcbw\/2007\/11\/05\/t-mo-got-no-spec-trum\/\" title=\"US Wireless Carriers Bandwidth\">http:\/\/blogs.gnome.org\/dcbw\/2007\/11\/05\/t-mo-got-no-spec-trum\/<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The US has 6 bands that are or will be used for cellular communications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>700MHz &#8211; the new band, to be auctioned in February next year. There \u201copen access\u201d rules tied to about 1\/3rd of the spectrum to stop carrier locks on devices.<\/li>\n<li>800MHz SMR &#8211; where Nextel operates; Nextel bought up taxi dispatch operators nationwide and converted them over to iDEN back when only 2 cellular licenses were available in each market.<\/li>\n<li>850MHz &#8211; the original cellular band, initially AMPS but now being converted over to GSM and CDMA<\/li>\n<li>1900MHz &#8211; the PCS band, digital from the start and where Sprint and Voicestream (now T-Mobile) entered the cellular industry. All the major players have spectrum here.<\/li>\n<li>1700MHz &#8211; the AWS bands auctioned last year for broadband data like HSPA and EVDO<\/li>\n<li>2500MHz &#8211; the \u201ceducational\u201d band in which both Sprint and Clearwire have vast holdings and will deploy nationwide WiMAX networks over the next two years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And it looks like<em> my<\/em> mobile phone carrier has the least bandwidt, for now, as they&#8217;re a later entry in the US market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good blog posting about who has and who hasn&#8217;t bandwidth &amp; spectrum amongst the US Mobile phone networks: http:\/\/blogs.gnome.org\/dcbw\/2007\/11\/05\/t-mo-got-no-spec-trum\/ The US has 6 bands that are or will be used for cellular communications: 700MHz &#8211; the new band, to be auctioned in February next year. There \u201copen access\u201d rules tied to about 1\/3rd of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/11\/07\/us-wireless-carriers-bandwidth-spectrum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Wireless Carriers: Bandwidth &#038; Spectrum<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phone","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}