We hear regularly that our claims sound too good to be true, especially from seasoned veterans in the fixed wireless community who’ve long struggled with the limitations of the re-purposed technologies we mentioned on our Challenges page. You all have our sympathies (seriously). The great news is you don’t have to take our word for it anymore, since G1’s claim-fulfilling real-world performance is now well proven in a quickly-growing number of live commercial networks.

To learn more about our service providers’ experiences with G1, please check out our “Fixed Wireless, Finally Fixed” webinar recording, featuring reports on their experiences with G1 and its impact on their businesses from Calvin Collett, Managing Director of MTN’s Supersonic division, Neil McRae, Chief Network Architect for British Telecom, and Nathan Stooke, CEO of Wisper Internet.

To give you a brief introduction to these experiences here, we start with two example G1 sites operated by leading US WISPs — Wisper in Missouri and Resound Networks in Texas — both delivering commercial service in two very different geographies. The key points to take away are, first, both sites have ~100 subscribers receiving high-performance internet service with mostly obstructed links off of one base radio. In fact, the signal strength is high enough to offer >90% of the customers 400 Mbps DL service with a 4.5:1 high-performance uplink. There has never been a wireless system that could come close to this kind of aggregate wide-area performance. Second, these installations are both in the 5 GHz unlicensed band, which means the operators did not need to acquire costly spectrum to offer this outstanding service. Third, there is unlicensed interference being actively cancelled by the G1 ngFWA platform, as denoted by the colored donut at the end of each link. This cancellation is what makes it possible to use free spectrum yet still offer a reliable service.