Tranzeo Wireless, today announced that it has received Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval for its 3.5GHz WiMAX subscriber units in the United States for use in the semi-licensed band from 3.65-3.7GHz. The FCC recently made this spectrum available for licensing by wireless ISPs.
The TR-WMX-3.5-N, TR-WMX-3.5-17, and TR-WMX-3.5-20 subscriber units are included in the FCC approval. The 3.65 GHz band is “lightly licensed”, meaning it requires all operators to register their equipment in the markets they deploy in. While competitors may use the same spectrum, they must to do it in coordination with one another, creating an unlicensed band with some protections to its users. But it cannot be deployed in areas where that frequency is used by satellite providers.
The Tranzeo equipment for customer premises has been verified to be interoperable with leading WiMAX base station technologies including Redline’s RedMAX suite which has also been approved for this band by the FCC.
Metro WISP Towerstream has completed a trial using Alvarion 3.65 GHz WiMAX gear, and is planning a major market rollout reports Telephony Magazine.
Towerstream’s wireless backhaul services in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami and Dallas have all used pre-WiMAX equipment from Aperto Networks and Alvarion, most in the 5.8 GHz unlicensed frequencies. Towerstream plans to use Alvarion 3.65 GHz gear going forward in all new deployments.
Related DailyWireless stories include; Towerstream Switches to Alvarion 3.65 GHz, Solectek 3.65 GHz WiMAX, Pipeline Wireless: We’re 3.65 GHz, FCC: Go For 3.65GHz, Airspan, Free 3.65GHz Mapping Service, Airspan Gets FCC Nod for 3.65 GHz, 3.65 GHz Gets Real, FCC: Non-exclusive 3.6GHz Licensing and Broadband Wireless — Hello Goodbye, Who the MuniFi MAN?, WiMAX: No Satellite Interference says WARC.
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