No benefit for us, these licensed Frequency’s are impossible to use here in Germany…
You can’t “use them”.
InterCell is a base station that can be ONLY used if you are a licensed mobile operator. And if you are, you need to buy the license for B38 anyway.
For Germany only 3,5GHz was licensable for regional WISPs. This moves to 3,7-3,8 which renders our WiMAX Equipment useless. Do you plan to support 3,7-3,8?
Some MNOs might find those boxes handy. However, in Europe I expect most MNOs have licensed parts of band 34 (came as by-product of 2.1GHz UMTS) instead of band 39.
I wonder how these boxes get synchronized (necessary to run them with coverage overlapping).
This is not for regional WISPS. This is for country mobile operators, Vodafone and the likes. Or anyone who can get a license, for sure, yes.
Yes, this product mostly is for module operators and the license holders, who owns those frequencies in the country.
Yes, as you can see in the specification the Intercell series support GPS synchronisation for TDD bands,
Band 39 overlaps with Band33 which can be also optionally be allowed to choose for B39 product.
Are you referring to LTE Band43 for the 3.7ghz?
http://niviuk.free.fr/lte_band.php
We might consider that but it depends on the demand and also the software/hardware requirements of the products. If you know lot of license holders for the 3.7ghz you can ask them what kind of product they require and then contact support@mikrotik.com with that information.
Yes it is part of Band 43 (3600-3800). As said this is the only band which we could license regional. All lower frequencies are auctioned nationwide.
You might consider doing a product for USA CBRS Band (3550-3700) and make it work up to 3800 to do both markets with one product.
WISPs are your customers. Dont know if the Vodafone-People give you an audience and trash Huawei/ZTE/… 
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We have 2*10 MHz in 3,4-3,6 now which we cant renew after 10 years. 3,4-3,6 will be auctioned nationwide for 5G.
Unfortunately we can’t make the Product that supports both B43 and B48 so you would need to choose which one you would need.
Any other requirements - output power, CA support, bandwidth width, etc…?
One thing is for base station to know when to do something (that’s what time sync is for), another thing is for base station to know what to do at that time. In traditional mobile networks this is configured through centralized O&M solutions and through special signalling connections between all base stations (X2 in LTE in particular).
So I’m wondering if MT offers some O&M solution and if InterCell base stations support all standard interfaces and functions.
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Please do make this product, and make it to support the upcoming SAS database for CBRS in addition to the PAL licenses. Most rural wisps will likely be looking into the option of a SAS, at least at first so that they may evaluate how effective the product and band is before dropping the cash on a PAL. Also, some of us (like ourselves) may never purchase a PAL as it’s highly unlikely that the SAS database won’t be plenty sufficient and will allow us to save a lot of money.
we would need more info on the SAS database on the CBRS and that PAL license. Maybe you could share us that info so we would understand what needs to be implemented before making such base station for 3.5ghz in US.
Such an interesting turn.
LTE can be beneficial for WISP though - NBN (National Broadband Network) in Australia are using LTE for their Fixed Wireless roll-outs, however being government run and funded probably got access to frequencies within budget.
A country I do a lot of work in - we have a very close relationship with the government and if we can secure a frequency for cheap enough we would HEAVILY consider pushing this out for WISP as well.
B43.
Output power as high as possible. We use this band esp. where 5GHz does not work out.
10/20MHz Channels, Managment as easy as possible. So just bridge the cpes (doing nat there) and allow to give ips with dhcp.
We run Purewave Wimax Basestation.
We do MPLS/VPLS to build a bridged wimax network on top of our ospf network (all routers MT). A central CCR does dhcp/routing/filtering into this bridged network. So a cpe could connect anywhere and always get its ip/routes. Makes managment/handling very simple.
What LTE frequencies/bands you think the WISPs will be able to use in Australia? And what would be the demand for such LTE Base Stations?
For which country you need that B43?
You need 1W or 10W or even higher output?
2x2MIMO is ok with one radio 5/10/15/20mhz width (no CA support)?
What kind if distance you need to provide?
Would you use our SXT/LHG 4G CPEs for Band43?
How many clients you need per one Base Station?
What would be the demand/volume for such Base Stations?
Germany,
10W,
2x2 Mimo is OK. Of course other options are welcome but price …
We use Purewave in Omni Mode (3x 2x2 with one BS with 3 Antennas or with AlphaWireless Polestyle Antennas) or with 3x2 Beamforming Arrays.
10km is the max but most are within 3-4km.
Would you use our SXT/LHG 4G CPEs for Band43?
yes.
If possible no SIM/CA/… dont want to fiddle with this stuff. We dont give managment access of cpes to our customers.
CPEs/Basestation <= 30. With wlan stuff/802.11ac we do <=20.
We have 50 Sectors running. As Wimax does max 12MBit/s / Customer we move to 5GHz wherever possible.
(20M/2M is our standard package with 5GHz).
There are not much options available … and they are quite bad in handling (EPC/SIM/…) Stuff which a wisp does not need/want.
Another request for the CBRS band here in the US.
Right now it’s Telrad, Cambium or Baicells.
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This doesn’t make sense to me. The two bands overlap and all of your competitors who have beaten you to market already manufacture such base stations that support both bands. In fact, they must support both because CBRS (B48) isn’t yet ready to go in the U.S., so you deploy now in a subset of B43 and then once CBRS is greenlit, you upgrade and reconfigure your existing base station (and set it up to talk to the SAS).
– Nathan