Tribal Spectrum to Tribal Networks: Magma Enabling Tribes to Control Their Internet Access Future
summary
Pilot in 2017 walks or helicopter trips and $15,000 of gear bring broadband into a canyon village using 2.5 GHz spectrum and open source Magma core, proving tribes can own radio and core. FCC’s rural tribal window now leaves about 1.9 million people with tribal-controlled spectrum. Deployments use Airspan, Cisco, FreedomFi and MikroTik CPEs, setups with two 10W, one 20W and three 0.75W LTE radios, and a FreedomFi orchestrator managing 43 subscriber profiles.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction to Mural Net
- 1:03Pilot network at Havasupai
- 2:06Tribal spectrum access expansion
- 3:10Call to support tribal networks
- 4:15Lone Pine Paiute emergency network
- 7:26Magma software benefits
- 8:51Tribal capacity building
- 10:13Bishop Paiute network project
- 14:04Tribal connectivity challenges
- 16:12Magma as open-source solution
- 16:32Mural Net mission and impact
- 18:21Innovation in tribal networks
- 20:30Q&A with tribal partners
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