[WISPA] After the crisis

[Tom DeReggi]

There is going to be a wide open market for local WISPs in LA, for quite a 
while, after the crisis is over.


TechNews.com Daily Report  Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005


Telecom Damage Tops $400 Million
Telephone company BellSouth Corp. yesterday estimated that it would cost 
$400 million to $600 million to repair the damage from Hurricane Katrina and 
said it could take four to six months to restore service in the hardest-hit 
areas of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of Mississippi.


Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
301-515-7774
IntAirNet - Fixed Wireless Broadband



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[WISPA] Tech Samaritans

[Mike Healy]

Found this in the Washington Post this morning. Thought y'all 
would be interested in seeing it.


You guys are doing great things down there. I only wish I had the means 
to be able to join you. I had hoped to get a bunch of surplus PCs to 
send to you but due to my employer being in bankruptcy we aren't able to 
do that.


Mike

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090802058.html?referrer=email

*washingtonpost.com* *
Wireless Networks Give Voice To Evacuees*

By Arshad Mohammed
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 9, 2005; A15

Hurricane Katrina survivor Caprice Butler had been at a church shelter 
in rural northeastern Louisiana for nearly a week when she finally heard 
her husband's voice on an Internet phone running on an improvised 
wireless network.


"I was just overjoyed," she said yesterday, tearing up as she spoke 
outside the church in the farming town of Mangham, about 200 miles from 
her flooded New Orleans home. "Words can't explain how I felt."


If the Butlers manage to reunite this weekend, as they hope, it will be 
because of a band of volunteer techies who are stitching together 
wireless networks at shelters across northeastern Louisiana using radio 
transmitters mounted on such items as a grain silo and a water tower.


With few reliable communications systems in place, people and companies 
from around the country are converging on the region to create 
improvised networks that give survivors and emergency personnel ways to 
talk and coordinate efforts.


While local telephone and wireless networks are slowly coming back, they 
remain spotty or nonexistent in some places, and fire, police and other 
rescue personnel have complained about the lack of a unified emergency 
communications system. To meet the needs of evacuees in Jackson, Miss., 
Dulles-based America Online has parked an 18-wheel truck at the 
Mississippi State Fairgrounds, a major shelter, with a satellite dish on 
top and 20 computers with Internet access inside. At the Houston 
Astrodome, volunteers have obtained a Federal Communications Commission 
license to set up a low-power radio station and are now struggling to 
get permission from local officials to broadcast to evacuees inside the 
stadium.


F4W, a Lake Mary, Fla., company, is under government contract to provide 
Internet phones and online access to Coast Guard officers cleaning up 
oil spills, using a portable satellite dish and handsets often deployed 
in forest fires.


The network at Mangham Baptist Church was the brainchild of Mac Dearman, 
a wireless Internet service provider who was driving past the church 
last week when he saw a group of parked cars, realized they were people 
who had fled the hurricane and set about providing relief, including 
food, clothing and online access.


Dearman hooked up a radio transmitter near the church and linked that to 
a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephone and a computer, and 
suddenly the dozens of people taking refuge at the church had the 
ability to reach out to the outside world.


Mostly, they are searching for loved ones and filling out Federal 
Emergency Management Agency forms to get disaster aid.


"They just call from shelter to shelter to shelter looking for their 
kids or for their daddies or their brothers because they got separated, 
and they are just finding each other in the last few days," Dearman 
said, adding that people were often overwhelmed when they connected.


"They cried big tears, hugged my neck, shook my hand and patted me on 
the back. You'd have thought I was really giving them something that 
cost a lot of money," he added.


Dearman is working entirely with donated labor and equipment.

People from as far afield as Nebraska, Missouri and Indiana are camped 
out in his house, coordinating equipment deliveries, searching for 
shelters that need service, and then sending out volunteers to climb 
towers to hook up radio antennas and set up the networks.


"We are basically completely bypassing the phone system," said Matt 
Larsen of Scottsbluff, Neb., who said he was perched on a bar stool with 
his laptop at Dearman's kitchen counter.


Dearman estimated that he had run wireless links to about a dozen 
shelters near his home base of Rayville, La., but only about half were 
up and running because he had run out of equipment.


He was expecting fresh donations of secondhand computers, VoIP phones 
and wireless equipment. Once he has those in hand, he said, he hopes to 
extend to shelters closer to New Orleans and to Mississippi's Gulf Coast.


"It's been a godsend," said the Rev. Rick Aultman, pastor of Mangham 
Baptist Church, where about four dozen people are staying.


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[WISPA] Mac Dearman's Camp Featured in Washington Post

[John Scrivner]

Congratulations to all you guys for your hard work and great efforts 
down south. You made the Washington Post!  Woo-Hooo!

Scriv


Mike Healy wrote:

Found this in the Washington Post this morning. Thought y'all 
would be interested in seeing it.


You guys are doing great things down there. I only wish I had the 
means to be able to join you. I had hoped to get a bunch of surplus 
PCs to send to you but due to my employer being in bankruptcy we 
aren't able to do that.


Mike

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090802058.html?referrer=email 



*washingtonpost.com* *
Wireless Networks Give Voice To Evacuees*

By Arshad Mohammed
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 9, 2005; A15

Hurricane Katrina survivor Caprice Butler had been at a church shelter 
in rural northeastern Louisiana for nearly a week when she finally 
heard her husband's voice on an Internet phone running on an 
improvised wireless network.


"I was just overjoyed," she said yesterday, tearing up as she spoke 
outside the church in the farming town of Mangham, about 200 miles 
from her flooded New Orleans home. "Words can't explain how I felt."


If the Butlers manage to reunite this weekend, as they hope, it will 
be because of a band of volunteer techies who are stitching together 
wireless networks at shelters across northeastern Louisiana using 
radio transmitters mounted on such items as a grain silo and a water 
tower.


With few reliable communications systems in place, people and 
companies from around the country are converging on the region to 
create improvised networks that give survivors and emergency personnel 
ways to talk and coordinate efforts.


While local telephone and wireless networks are slowly coming back, 
they remain spotty or nonexistent in some places, and fire, police and 
other rescue personnel have complained about the lack of a unified 
emergency communications system. To meet the needs of evacuees in 
Jackson, Miss., Dulles-based America Online has parked an 18-wheel 
truck at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds, a major shelter, with a 
satellite dish on top and 20 computers with Internet access inside. At 
the Houston Astrodome, volunteers have obtained a Federal 
Communications Commission license to set up a low-power radio station 
and are now struggling to get permission from local officials to 
broadcast to evacuees inside the stadium.


F4W, a Lake Mary, Fla., company, is under government contract to 
provide Internet phones and online access to Coast Guard officers 
cleaning up oil spills, using a portable satellite dish and handsets 
often deployed in forest fires.


The network at Mangham Baptist Church was the brainchild of Mac 
Dearman, a wireless Internet service provider who was driving past the 
church last week when he saw a group of parked cars, realized they 
were people who had fled the hurricane and set about providing relief, 
including food, clothing and online access.


Dearman hooked up a radio transmitter near the church and linked that 
to a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephone and a computer, and 
suddenly the dozens of people taking refuge at the church had the 
ability to reach out to the outside world.


Mostly, they are searching for loved ones and filling out Federal 
Emergency Management Agency forms to get disaster aid.


"They just call from shelter to shelter to shelter looking for their 
kids or for their daddies or their brothers because they got 
separated, and they are just finding each other in the last few days," 
Dearman said, adding that people were often overwhelmed when they 
connected.


"They cried big tears, hugged my neck, shook my hand and patted me on 
the back. You'd have thought I was really giving them something that 
cost a lot of money," he added.


Dearman is working entirely with donated labor and equipment.

People from as far afield as Nebraska, Missouri and Indiana are camped 
out in his house, coordinating equipment deliveries, searching for 
shelters that need service, and then sending out volunteers to climb 
towers to hook up radio antennas and set up the networks.


"We are basically completely bypassing the phone system," said Matt 
Larsen of Scottsbluff, Neb., who said he was perched on a bar stool 
with his laptop at Dearman's kitchen counter.


Dearman estimated that he had run wireless links to about a dozen 
shelters near his home base of Rayville, La., but only about half were 
up and running because he had run out of equipment.


He was expecting fresh donations of secondhand computers, VoIP phones 
and wireless equipment. Once he has those in hand, he said, he hopes 
to extend to shelters closer to New Orleans and to Mississippi's Gulf 
Coast.


"It's been a godsend," said the Rev. Rick Aultman, pastor of Mangham 
Baptist Church, where about four dozen people are staying.


© 2005 The Washington Post Company


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RE: [SPAM-RBL] - RE: [WISPA] Update on Joe Miller in Mississippi-Sending mail server found on list.dsbl.org

[Shayne Rose]

Jeff,

If you need more gear, let me know! 


Shayne Rose
National Sales Manager
Trango Broadband Wireless
a division of Trango Systems, Inc.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Mabry
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 9:45 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: RE: [SPAM-RBL] - RE: [WISPA] Update on Joe Miller in 
Mississippi-Sending mail server found on list.dsbl.org

Hello, this is Jeff Mabry - SlingShot.  I am in Gulfport, MS helping out at the 
Harrison County Disaster Command Post.  Do you know anyone in this county that 
wants to volunteer?  We need volunteers to help distribute and sort food and 
supplies.  Wireless Internet Service has dropped low on my priority list at the 
moment. 

Yesterday, I was told they (volunteers and National Guard) found an apartment 
complex with 225 people that had not had food for 6 days.  155 were children.
 
My mobile is 618.534.6407. Cellular is better but still spotty.  

When I get back in wireless mode.  I have 2 - 2 ft antennas (Radiowaves). Used 
Link CX 5.8 units, and a Proxim Tsunami QuickBridge 60 link.  

Please call if I can help.  

JDM

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shayne Rose
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 10:30 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: RE: [SPAM-RBL] - RE: [WISPA] Update on Joe Miller in Mississippi 
-Sending mail server found on list.dsbl.org

FYI- The Trango TLINK-10's were sent to Joe Miller overnight and he should have 
them already this AM.

Shayne Rose
National Sales Manager
Trango Broadband Wireless
a division of Trango Systems, Inc.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JohnnyO
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 12:27 PM
To: 'WISPA General List'
Subject: [SPAM-RBL] - RE: [WISPA] Update on Joe Miller in Mississippi - Sending 
mail server found on list.dsbl.org
Importance: High

Here is an update :

Joe Miller runs the WISP in Gulfport / Biloxi / Pascagoula and surrounding 
areas - We run a network "that" went from Mobile, Alabama to Dauphin Island 
alabama with a tower site located at WLO on the coast.

Leroy Clark from Mobile is going to inspect our tower site and see if it's even 
standing. If not - we will do a wireless shot of 34 miles to Pascagoula from 
Mobile, Alabama.

Who is in route to help Joe Miller ? Could we stage here and head that way on 
Thursday ? That would give us 2 days to get all gear shipped in and ready to 
roll.

I have secured a 10mbps link from Mobile to do this shot with. This will get 
his Pascagoula network back up and online and Joe Miller has already stated he 
will donate his network and resources to lighting up the shelters along the 
coast.

JohnnyO

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JohnnyO
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 2:02 PM
To: 'WISPA General List'
Subject: RE: [WISPA] Call for 802.11 Bridges, Routers, VoIP and more.
Importance: High


Rick - Working with Joe Miller in Mississippi - To get Pascagoula back online - 
We need a backhaul unit - A TrangoLink10 will do the trick - it's a 34mile shot 
and we need 2ft antennas

I will be providing him bandwidth from our Mobile location or our coast 
location in Coden Alabama.

Let me know what you can get me YESTERDAY to get this done with... Don't care 
what it is - as long as it's a TLink10 or Orthogon - tis the only 2 I know can 
pull off this link.

JohnnyO

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Harnish
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 12:04 PM
To: 'WISPA General List'; isp-wireless@isp-wireless.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [WISPA] Call for 802.11 Bridges, Routers, VoIP and more.


We are getting a lot of requests from down south for more equipment. Mac 
Dearman, JohnnyO, Tim Wolfe, Joe Miller and Joe Laura are all working 
diligently to get more shelters online as quickly as possible. If anyone has 
any equipment they can donate ASAP.  Please get with me. There are nearly 20 
volunteers heading down there from all over the country in the next few days.  
Some are in route now.  We need backhaul equipment, AP's and
client radios.  Routers and VoIP equipment is also needed.   Feel free
to
call my cell. 

This call for equipment includes resellers and manufacturers.  Please call me 
today!

Rick Harnish
President
OnlyInternet Broadband & Wireless, Inc.
260-827-2482 Office
260-307-4000 Cell
260-918-4340 VoIP
www.oibw.net
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[Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181]

Now we're talkin'!

Great job guys!

Marlon
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- Original Message - 
From: "Mike Healy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "WISPA General List" 
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 7:26 AM
Subject: [WISPA] Tech Samaritans


Found this in the Washington Post this morning. Thought y'all 
would be interested in seeing it.


You guys are doing great things down there. I only wish I had the means to 
be able to join you. I had hoped to get a bunch of surplus PCs to send to 
you but due to my employer being in bankruptcy we aren't able to do that.


Mike

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090802058.html?referrer=email

*washingtonpost.com* *
Wireless Networks Give Voice To Evacuees*

By Arshad Mohammed
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 9, 2005; A15

Hurricane Katrina survivor Caprice Butler had been at a church shelter in 
rural northeastern Louisiana for nearly a week when she finally heard her 
husband's voice on an Internet phone running on an improvised wireless 
network.


"I was just overjoyed," she said yesterday, tearing up as she spoke 
outside the church in the farming town of Mangham, about 200 miles from 
her flooded New Orleans home. "Words can't explain how I felt."


If the Butlers manage to reunite this weekend, as they hope, it will be 
because of a band of volunteer techies who are stitching together wireless 
networks at shelters across northeastern Louisiana using radio 
transmitters mounted on such items as a grain silo and a water tower.


With few reliable communications systems in place, people and companies 
from around the country are converging on the region to create improvised 
networks that give survivors and emergency personnel ways to talk and 
coordinate efforts.


While local telephone and wireless networks are slowly coming back, they 
remain spotty or nonexistent in some places, and fire, police and other 
rescue personnel have complained about the lack of a unified emergency 
communications system. To meet the needs of evacuees in Jackson, Miss., 
Dulles-based America Online has parked an 18-wheel truck at the 
Mississippi State Fairgrounds, a major shelter, with a satellite dish on 
top and 20 computers with Internet access inside. At the Houston 
Astrodome, volunteers have obtained a Federal Communications Commission 
license to set up a low-power radio station and are now struggling to get 
permission from local officials to broadcast to evacuees inside the 
stadium.


F4W, a Lake Mary, Fla., company, is under government contract to provide 
Internet phones and online access to Coast Guard officers cleaning up oil 
spills, using a portable satellite dish and handsets often deployed in 
forest fires.


The network at Mangham Baptist Church was the brainchild of Mac Dearman, a 
wireless Internet service provider who was driving past the church last 
week when he saw a group of parked cars, realized they were people who had 
fled the hurricane and set about providing relief, including food, 
clothing and online access.


Dearman hooked up a radio transmitter near the church and linked that to a 
voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephone and a computer, and suddenly 
the dozens of people taking refuge at the church had the ability to reach 
out to the outside world.


Mostly, they are searching for loved ones and filling out Federal 
Emergency Management Agency forms to get disaster aid.


"They just call from shelter to shelter to shelter looking for their kids 
or for their daddies or their brothers because they got separated, and 
they are just finding each other in the last few days," Dearman said, 
adding that people were often overwhelmed when they connected.


"They cried big tears, hugged my neck, shook my hand and patted me on the 
back. You'd have thought I was really giving them something that cost a 
lot of money," he added.


Dearman is working entirely with donated labor and equipment.

People from as far afield as Nebraska, Missouri and Indiana are camped out 
in his house, coordinating equipment deliveries, searching for shelters 
that need service, and then sending out volunteers to climb towers to hook 
up radio antennas and set up the networks.


"We are basically completely bypassing the phone system," said Matt Larsen 
of Scottsbluff, Neb., who said he was perched on a bar stool with his 
laptop at Dearman's kitchen counter.


Dearman estimated that he had run wireless links to about a dozen shelters 
near his home base of Rayville, La., but only about half were up and 
running because he had run out of equipment.


He was expecting fresh donations of secondhand computers, VoIP phone

[WISPA] Re: [isp-wireless] CPE

[Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181]

Care to donate them to the hurricane guys?

Matt, do you have funds yet to buy some/all of these?

Marlon
(509) 982-2181   Equipment sales
(408) 907-6910 (Vonage)Consulting services
42846865 (icq)And I run my own wisp!
64.146.146.12 (net meeting)
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To: 
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 9:39 PM
Subject: [isp-wireless] CPE



Hi,

I have 30+ CPE units (802.11b stuff) with or without antennas available 
for sale. Please contact me off list.


Travis
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[WISPA] [Fwd: [TVWHITESPACE] NAF press release]

[John Scrivner]

Here is the press release that the Washington Post drew their story 
from. It ties in some of the work I was doing in D.C. this week together 
with what the "Mac Daddies" of WISPA are doing in Louisiana. Thanks for 
making us the heroes in D.C. I was very proud to represent you guys 
there this week. Thanks a million.

Scriv


 Original Message 
Subject:[TVWHITESPACE] NAF press release
Date:   Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:53:39 -0400
From:   Jim Snider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: 	FCC NPRM for UHF TV Band Unlicensed Use 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



A copy of the press release NAF sent out this morning.

--Jim

J.H. Snider, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow
New America Foundation
1630 Connecticut Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: 202/986-2700
Fax: 202/986-3696
Web: _www.newamerica.net_ 
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Also see my new book on digital TV policy and politics
_www.spectrumpolicy.net_ )


_*MEDIA BACKGROUNDER*_

*Contact:* Michael Calabrese, (202) 986-2700 (x327), 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
J.H. Snider, (202) 986-2700 (x226), [EMAIL PROTECTED] 



*KATRINA DEMONSTRATES FAILURE OF CURRENT U.S. SPECTRUM POLICY*

(WASHINGTON--September 9, 2005) In recent days the press has extensively 
covered the telecommunications breakdown in New Orleans and the attempts 
of telephone, cable, and broadcast companies to reinstate service and 
help disaster victims. What has not been covered as extensively in the 
media is the lack of communications at dozens of rural Louisiana 
shelters and the efforts of Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs), 
which use unlicensed spectrum, to address this problem.


Earlier this week, such stories were featured at a Capitol Hill forum 
sponsored by the New America Foundation and the Congressional Future of 
American Media Caucus. Rep. Diane Watson, D-CA, bemoaned the lack of 
telecommunications services after the storm and said that it pointed "to 
the serious failure and the lack of preparedness in our nation's 
telecommunications policy." New America Foundation Vice President 
Michael Calabrese added, "It is simply not affordable anytime soon to be 
stringing fiber lines to rural areas, but wireless networks can provide 
broadband communications services very quickly and inexpensively."


As New Orleans is being evacuated, thousands of evacuees are streaming 
out into the countryside where churches and communities have set up 
shelters to take care of them. Unfortunately, many of these shelters 
lack telecommunications service. Responding to this need, dozens of 
rural WISPs have poured into rural Louisiana to help out.


As of midday Thursday, WISPs were providing service to more than 1,100 
evacuees at the following shelters: Mangham Baptist (Mangham, LA), Delhi 
Civic Center (Delhi, LA), Baskin First Baptist (Baskin, LA), Grace 
Fellowship (Baskin, LA), River of Life Church (Winnsboro, LA), Tallulah 
Community Center (Tallulah, LA), and Parkview Baptist (Richmond, LA). 
The following shelters were also expected to get service by the end of 
the day: King's Camp (Mer Rouge, LA), Richland Baptist Encampment (Alto, 
LA), Antioch Baptist (Rayville, LA), and Archibald Church of God 
(Archibald, LA).


Mac Dearman, owner of Maximum Access, a Louisiana-based WISP organizing 
the WISP relief effort, reports: "All the shelters had to offer was food 
and shelter, but no communications of any kind. We brought in PCs, 
voice-over-IP phones, and the wireless broadband links to make them 
useful. You wouldn't believe how many hugs we got." How were they used? 
Mostly for people to connect with relatives. At one shelter that Dearman 
personally helped set up, more than a dozen families were connected. The 
image he remembers is a lady hugging him and nearly crying: "God bless 
you; we've been worried about my brother; and we found him." Jim 
Patient, owner of Jeffco, another WISP, was working on setting up 
communications at King's Camp to handle more than 80 mentally 
handicapped children evacuees. King's Camp had more than 30 staff but no 
communications of any kind.


As Congress moves digital TV legislation to free up spectrum for 
broadband telecommunications, the lack of telecommunications services in 
the wake of Katrina has moved front and center. Much of the freed up 
broadcast spectrum could be converted to broadband use.


The broadcast industry has been fighting tooth and nail to prevent this 
from happening in a timely fashion. Most press attention has focused on 
the industry's effort to delay giving back the channels Congress loaned 
to transition digital TV. Less well known is that the industry has also 
been fighting to keep as many as possible of the unused TV channels 
("guard bands" between the currently used channels) for their own future 
use. For example, a video being distributed on Capitol Hill 
(_www.mstv.org/static.html_ 
) 
argues that complete havoc will be created if unlicensed

[WISPA] Fw: [TVWHITESPACE] NAF press release

[Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181]

Title: NAF press release



fyi
 
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- Original Message - 
From: Jim Snider 

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 8:53 AM
Subject: [TVWHITESPACE] NAF press release

A copy of the press release NAF sent 
out this morning. 
--Jim 
J.H. Snider, Ph.D. 
Senior Research 
Fellow New America 
Foundation 1630 
Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, DC 20009 Phone: 202/986-2700 Fax: 202/986-3696 Web: www.newamerica.net 
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
(Also see my new book on digital TV 
policy and politics www.spectrumpolicy.net) 
MEDIA 
BACKGROUNDER
Contact: Michael Calabrese, (202) 986-2700 (x327), [EMAIL PROTECTED] J.H. Snider, 
(202) 986-2700 (x226), [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
KATRINA DEMONSTRATES 
FAILURE OF CURRENT U.S. SPECTRUM POLICY
(WASHINGTON--September 9, 2005) In 
recent days the press has extensively covered the telecommunications breakdown 
in New Orleans and the attempts of telephone, cable, and broadcast companies to 
reinstate service and help disaster victims. What has not been covered as 
extensively in the media is the lack of communications at dozens of rural 
Louisiana shelters and the efforts of Wireless Internet Service Providers 
(WISPs), which use unlicensed spectrum, to address this 
problem.
Earlier this week, such stories were 
featured at a Capitol Hill forum sponsored by the New America Foundation and the 
Congressional Future of American Media Caucus. Rep. Diane Watson, D-CA, bemoaned 
the lack of telecommunications services after the storm and said that it pointed 
"to the serious failure and the lack of preparedness in our nation's 
telecommunications policy." New America Foundation Vice President Michael 
Calabrese added, "It is simply not affordable anytime soon to be stringing fiber 
lines to rural areas, but wireless networks can provide broadband communications 
services very quickly and inexpensively."
As New Orleans is being evacuated, 
thousands of evacuees are streaming out into the countryside where churches and 
communities have set up shelters to take care of them. Unfortunately, many of 
these shelters lack telecommunications service. Responding to this need, dozens 
of rural WISPs have poured into rural Louisiana to help out. 
As of midday Thursday, WISPs were 
providing service to more than 1,100 evacuees at the following shelters: Mangham 
Baptist (Mangham, LA), Delhi Civic Center (Delhi, LA), Baskin First Baptist 
(Baskin, LA), Grace Fellowship (Baskin, LA), River of Life Church (Winnsboro, 
LA), Tallulah Community Center (Tallulah, LA), and Parkview Baptist (Richmond, 
LA). The following shelters were also expected to get service by the end of the 
day: King's Camp (Mer Rouge, LA), Richland Baptist Encampment (Alto, LA), 
Antioch Baptist (Rayville, LA), and Archibald Church of God (Archibald, 
LA).
Mac Dearman, owner of Maximum 
Access, a Louisiana-based WISP organizing the WISP relief effort, reports: "All 
the shelters had to offer was food and shelter, but no communications of any 
kind. We brought in PCs, voice-over-IP phones, and the wireless broadband links 
to make them useful. You wouldn't believe how many hugs we got." How were they 
used? Mostly for people to connect with relatives. At one shelter that Dearman 
personally helped set up, more than a dozen families were connected. The image 
he remembers is a lady hugging him and nearly crying: "God bless you; we've been 
worried about my brother; and we found him." Jim Patient, owner of Jeffco, 
another WISP, was working on setting up communications at King's Camp to handle 
more than 80 mentally handicapped children evacuees. King's Camp had more than 
30 staff but no communications of any kind. 
As Congress moves digital TV 
legislation to free up spectrum for broadband telecommunications, the lack of 
telecommunications services in the wake of Katrina has moved front and center. 
Much of the freed up broadcast spectrum could be converted to broadband 
use. 
The broadcast industry has been 
fighting tooth and nail to prevent this from happening in a timely fashion. Most 
press attention has focused on the industry's effort to delay giving back the 
channels Congress loaned to transition digital TV. Less well known is that the 
industry has also been fighting to keep as many as possible of the unused TV 
channels ("guard bands" between the currently used channels) for their own 
future use. For example, a video being distributed on Capitol Hill 
(www.mstv.org/static.html) argues that complete havoc will be created if unlicensed 
broadband devices are allowed in the unused TV channels.
The FCC has initiated a rulemaking 
(Docket 04-186) to require these channels to be opened up for unlicensed 
broadba

Re: [WISPA] Fw: [TVWHITESPACE] NAF press release

[Barry at Mutual Data]

Hello,

This press release really needs to be posted on a website so it can be referred 
to when
discussing this with our clients...

Barry

Friday, September 9, 2005, 12:17:46 PM, you wrote:

  
 
MKS592> fyi
 
MKS592>  
 
MKS592> Marlon
MKS592> (509)  982-2181    Equipment sales
MKS592> (408) 907-6910  (Vonage)     Consulting services
MKS592> 42846865  (icq)     And I run my own 
wisp!
MKS592> 64.146.146.12 (net meeting)
MKS592> www.odessaoffice.com/wireless
MKS592> www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam
 
MKS592>  
 

MKS592>  
 
MKS592> - Original Message - 
MKS592> From: Jim Snider  
 
MKS592> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
 
MKS592> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 8:53 AM
 
MKS592> Subject: [TVWHITESPACE] NAF press release
 

 
MKS592> A copy of the press release NAF sent  out this morning. 
 
MKS592> --Jim 
 
MKS592> J.H. Snider, Ph.D.  
MKS592> Senior Research  Fellow 
MKS592> New America  Foundation 
MKS592> 1630  Connecticut Ave., NW 
MKS592> Washington, DC 20009 
MKS592> Phone: 202/986-2700 
MKS592> Fax: 202/986-3696 
MKS592> Web: www.newamerica.net  
MKS592> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
MKS592> (Also see my new book on digital TV  policy and politics 
MKS592> www.spectrumpolicy.net) 

 
MKS592> MEDIA  BACKGROUNDER
 
MKS592> Contact: Michael Calabrese, (202) 986-2700 (x327), [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MKS592> J.H. Snider,  (202) 986-2700 (x226), [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
MKS592> KATRINA DEMONSTRATES  FAILURE OF CURRENT U.S. SPECTRUM POLICY
 
MKS592> (WASHINGTON--September 9, 2005) In  recent days the
MKS592> press has extensively covered the telecommunications breakdown
MKS592> in New Orleans and the attempts of telephone, cable, and
MKS592> broadcast companies to  reinstate service and help disaster
MKS592> victims. What has not been covered as  extensively in the
MKS592> media is the lack of communications at dozens of rural 
MKS592> Louisiana shelters and the efforts of Wireless Internet
MKS592> Service Providers  (WISPs), which use unlicensed spectrum, to
MKS592> address this  problem.
 
MKS592> Earlier this week, such stories were  featured at a
MKS592> Capitol Hill forum sponsored by the New America Foundation and
MKS592> the  Congressional Future of American Media Caucus. Rep. Diane
MKS592> Watson, D-CA, bemoaned  the lack of telecommunications
MKS592> services after the storm and said that it pointed  "to the
MKS592> serious failure and the lack of preparedness in our nation's 
MKS592> telecommunications policy." New America Foundation Vice
MKS592> President Michael  Calabrese added, "It is simply not
MKS592> affordable anytime soon to be stringing fiber  lines to rural
MKS592> areas, but wireless networks can provide broadband
MKS592> communications  services very quickly and inexpensively."
 
MKS592> As New Orleans is being evacuated,  thousands of
MKS592> evacuees are streaming out into the countryside where churches
MKS592> and  communities have set up shelters to take care of them.
MKS592> Unfortunately, many of  these shelters lack telecommunications
MKS592> service. Responding to this need, dozens  of rural WISPs have
MKS592> poured into rural Louisiana to help out. 
 
MKS592> As of midday Thursday, WISPs were  providing service
MKS592> to more than 1,100 evacuees at the following shelters: Mangham
MKS592> Baptist (Mangham, LA), Delhi Civic Center (Delhi, LA), Baskin
MKS592> First Baptist  (Baskin, LA), Grace Fellowship (Baskin, LA),
MKS592> River of Life Church (Winnsboro,  LA), Tallulah Community
MKS592> Center (Tallulah, LA), and Parkview Baptist (Richmond,  LA).
MKS592> The following shelters were also expected to get service by
MKS592> the end of the  day: King's Camp (Mer Rouge, LA), Richland
MKS592> Baptist Encampment (Alto, LA),  Antioch Baptist (Rayville,
MKS592> LA), and Archibald Church of God (Archibald,  LA).

snipped.


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[WISPA] Mac Dearman's Address / contact

[Rick Smith]

Where do we ship supplies ?   I've got a UPS store owner up here that's willing 
to foot the bill for shipments headed to Mac for relief / evacuee supplies

I'm tryin to send an email to all my customers before leavin for some work, so 
if someone could shoot me the contact info asap, I'd appreciate it...

R

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RE: [WISPA] Mac Dearman's Address / contact

[Shayne Rose]

We sent our equipment to

Maximum Access, LLC 
Mac Dearman
107 McManus Road  
Rayville  
Louisiana  
USA  
71269   


Shayne Rose
National Sales Manager
Trango Broadband Wireless
a division of Trango Systems, Inc.

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Where do we ship supplies ?   I've got a UPS store owner up here that's
willing to foot the bill for shipments headed to Mac for relief /
evacuee supplies

I'm tryin to send an email to all my customers before leavin for some
work, so if someone could shoot me the contact info asap, I'd appreciate
it...

R

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RE: [WISPA] Tech Samaritans

[Rick Smith]

AWESOME! 

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marlon K. 
Schafer (509) 982-2181
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 11:53 AM
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Subject: Re: [WISPA] Tech Samaritans

Now we're talkin'!

Great job guys!

Marlon
(509) 982-2181   Equipment sales
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- Original Message -
From: "Mike Healy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" 
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 7:26 AM
Subject: [WISPA] Tech Samaritans


> Found this in the Washington Post this morning. Thought y'all 
> would be interested in seeing it.
>
> You guys are doing great things down there. I only wish I had the means to 
> be able to join you. I had hoped to get a bunch of surplus PCs to send to 
> you but due to my employer being in bankruptcy we aren't able to do that.
>
> Mike
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090802058.html?referrer=email
>
> *washingtonpost.com* *
> Wireless Networks Give Voice To Evacuees*
>
> By Arshad Mohammed
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Friday, September 9, 2005; A15
>
> Hurricane Katrina survivor Caprice Butler had been at a church shelter in 
> rural northeastern Louisiana for nearly a week when she finally heard her 
> husband's voice on an Internet phone running on an improvised wireless 
> network.
>
> "I was just overjoyed," she said yesterday, tearing up as she spoke 
> outside the church in the farming town of Mangham, about 200 miles from 
> her flooded New Orleans home. "Words can't explain how I felt."
>
> If the Butlers manage to reunite this weekend, as they hope, it will be 
> because of a band of volunteer techies who are stitching together wireless 
> networks at shelters across northeastern Louisiana using radio 
> transmitters mounted on such items as a grain silo and a water tower.
>
> With few reliable communications systems in place, people and companies 
> from around the country are converging on the region to create improvised 
> networks that give survivors and emergency personnel ways to talk and 
> coordinate efforts.
>
> While local telephone and wireless networks are slowly coming back, they 
> remain spotty or nonexistent in some places, and fire, police and other 
> rescue personnel have complained about the lack of a unified emergency 
> communications system. To meet the needs of evacuees in Jackson, Miss., 
> Dulles-based America Online has parked an 18-wheel truck at the 
> Mississippi State Fairgrounds, a major shelter, with a satellite dish on 
> top and 20 computers with Internet access inside. At the Houston 
> Astrodome, volunteers have obtained a Federal Communications Commission 
> license to set up a low-power radio station and are now struggling to get 
> permission from local officials to broadcast to evacuees inside the 
> stadium.
>
> F4W, a Lake Mary, Fla., company, is under government contract to provide 
> Internet phones and online access to Coast Guard officers cleaning up oil 
> spills, using a portable satellite dish and handsets often deployed in 
> forest fires.
>
> The network at Mangham Baptist Church was the brainchild of Mac Dearman, a 
> wireless Internet service provider who was driving past the church last 
> week when he saw a group of parked cars, realized they were people who had 
> fled the hurricane and set about providing relief, including food, 
> clothing and online access.
>
> Dearman hooked up a radio transmitter near the church and linked that to a 
> voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephone and a computer, and suddenly 
> the dozens of people taking refuge at the church had the ability to reach 
> out to the outside world.
>
> Mostly, they are searching for loved ones and filling out Federal 
> Emergency Management Agency forms to get disaster aid.
>
> "They just call from shelter to shelter to shelter looking for their kids 
> or for their daddies or their brothers because they got separated, and 
> they are just finding each other in the last few days," Dearman said, 
> adding that people were often overwhelmed when they connected.
>
> "They cried big tears, hugged my neck, shook my hand and patted me on the 
> back. You'd have thought I was really giving them something that cost a 
> lot of money," he added.
>
> Dearman is working entirely with donated labor and equipment.
>
> People from as far afield as Nebraska, Missouri and Indiana are camped out 
> in his house, coordinating equipment deliveries, searching for shelters 
> that need service, and then sending out volunteers to climb towers to hook 
> up radio antennas and set up the networks.
>
> "We are basically completely bypassing the phone system," said Matt Larsen 

Re: [WISPA] Mac Dearman's Address / contact

[Mark Koskenmaki]

You can find it here
http://katrinasupport.neofast.net/viewtopic.php?t=12

Please folks, we're all trying to help, but on the ground, Mac doesn't know
what's coming his way, WE don't know what is going his way.

If you could be so kind as to tell P15 on the forms what you have and that
you want it to go to a specific place, we'll know that request is  being
filled and will stop working on it and work on other things if you have
stuff to go to Mac.

This is true for anything going to anyone that's working with Part-15.   If
it isn't coordinated, we're going to miss things that should be done and we
may duplicate donations or equipment or whatever.

Your help, everyone in WISPA, is dramatically appreciated by me and the rest
of the team.

And, BTW, GREAT FIND!  :)



North East Oregon Fastnet, LLC 509-593-4061
personal correspondence to:  mark at neofast dot net
sales inquiries to:  purchasing at neofast dot net
Fast Internet, NO WIRES!

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>
> Where do we ship supplies ?   I've got a UPS store owner up here that's
willing to foot the bill for shipments headed to Mac for relief / evacuee
supplies
>
> I'm tryin to send an email to all my customers before leavin for some
work, so if someone could shoot me the contact info asap, I'd appreciate
it...
>
> R
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RE: [WISPA] Mac Dearman's Address / contact

[Rick Smith]

Well, someone get a list of stuff to donate - I'm sure bottled water can never 
come in enough qty's...

R

Thanks 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Koskenmaki
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 1:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [WISPA] Mac Dearman's Address / contact

You can find it here
http://katrinasupport.neofast.net/viewtopic.php?t=12

Please folks, we're all trying to help, but on the ground, Mac doesn't know 
what's coming his way, WE don't know what is going his way.

If you could be so kind as to tell P15 on the forms what you have and that you 
want it to go to a specific place, we'll know that request is  being filled and 
will stop working on it and work on other things if you have stuff to go to Mac.

This is true for anything going to anyone that's working with Part-15.   If
it isn't coordinated, we're going to miss things that should be done and we may 
duplicate donations or equipment or whatever.

Your help, everyone in WISPA, is dramatically appreciated by me and the rest of 
the team.

And, BTW, GREAT FIND!  :)



North East Oregon Fastnet, LLC 509-593-4061 personal correspondence to:  mark 
at neofast dot net sales inquiries to:  purchasing at neofast dot net Fast 
Internet, NO WIRES!

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>
> Where do we ship supplies ?   I've got a UPS store owner up here that's
willing to foot the bill for shipments headed to Mac for relief / evacuee
supplies
>
> I'm tryin to send an email to all my customers before leavin for some
work, so if someone could shoot me the contact info asap, I'd appreciate
it...
>
> R
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[WISPA] APNEWS release - - - - - - -

[JohnnyO]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050909/D8CGDTM00.html


Why isn't there a mention of WISPA in this press release ?   Apparently
someone submitted this to this media person :)

JohnnyO

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Where do we ship supplies ?   I've got a UPS store owner up here that's
willing to foot the bill for shipments headed to Mac for relief /
evacuee supplies

I'm tryin to send an email to all my customers before leavin for some
work, so if someone could shoot me the contact info asap, I'd appreciate
it...

R

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[WISPA] wireless and hurricane

[Steve Smith]

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wireless9sep09,0,2807737.story?coll=la
-home-business




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Re: [SPAM-RBL] - RE: [WISPA] Update on Joe Miller in Mississippi-Sending mail server found on list.dsbl.org

[Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181]

Thanks Rochelle,

For the rest of you looking for people to help, please read the following.
thanks,
Marlon
(509) 982-2181   Equipment sales
(408) 907-6910 (Vonage)Consulting services
42846865 (icq)And I run my own wisp!
64.146.146.12 (net meeting)
www.odessaoffice.com/wireless
www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam



- Original Message - 
From: "Rochelle Paulet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 10:13 AM
Subject: RE: [SPAM-RBL] - RE: [WISPA] Update on Joe Miller in 
Mississippi-Sending mail server found on list.dsbl.org




He needs to put in a request for volunteers at
http://www.part-15.org/emergencyrelief/request.asp.  They will be in touch
to coordinate.

Rochelle Paulet, Marketing Director
Electro-Comm Distributing
5015 Paris St
Denver, CO  80239
O:  303-371-8182 F:  303-371-8158
www.electro-comm.com

EcBiz now online.  Search, research, manage, edit, quote, track.
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-Original Message-
From: Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 9:49 AM
To: Rochelle Paulet
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Mississippi-Sending mail server found on list.dsbl.org


Can anyone help here?

Marlon
(509) 982-2181   Equipment sales
(408) 907-6910 (Vonage)Consulting services
42846865 (icq)And I run my own wisp!
64.146.146.12 (net meeting)
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www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam



- Original Message -
From: "Jeff Mabry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" 
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 9:45 PM
Subject: RE: [SPAM-RBL] - RE: [WISPA] Update on Joe Miller in
Mississippi-Sending mail server found on list.dsbl.org


Hello, this is Jeff Mabry - SlingShot.  I am in Gulfport, MS helping out 
at

the Harrison County Disaster Command Post.  Do you know anyone in this
county that wants to volunteer?  We need volunteers to help distribute and
sort food and supplies.  Wireless Internet Service has dropped low on my
priority list at the moment.

Yesterday, I was told they (volunteers and National Guard) found an
apartment complex with 225 people that had not had food for 6 days.  155
were children.

My mobile is 618.534.6407. Cellular is better but still spotty.

When I get back in wireless mode.  I have 2 - 2 ft antennas (Radiowaves).
Used Link CX 5.8 units, and a Proxim Tsunami QuickBridge 60 link.

Please call if I can help.

JDM

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Shayne Rose
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 10:30 AM
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Mississippi -Sending mail server found on list.dsbl.org

FYI- The Trango TLINK-10's were sent to Joe Miller overnight and he should
have them already this AM.

Shayne Rose
National Sales Manager
Trango Broadband Wireless
a division of Trango Systems, Inc.

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Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 12:27 PM
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Subject: [SPAM-RBL] - RE: [WISPA] Update on Joe Miller in Mississippi -
Sending mail server found on list.dsbl.org
Importance: High

Here is an update :

Joe Miller runs the WISP in Gulfport / Biloxi / Pascagoula and surrounding
areas - We run a network "that" went from Mobile, Alabama to Dauphin 
Island

alabama with a tower site located at WLO on the coast.

Leroy Clark from Mobile is going to inspect our tower site and see if it's
even standing. If not - we will do a wireless shot of 34 miles to 
Pascagoula

from Mobile, Alabama.

Who is in route to help Joe Miller ? Could we stage here and head that way
on Thursday ? That would give us 2 days to get all gear shipped in and 
ready

to roll.

I have secured a 10mbps link from Mobile to do this shot with. This will 
get
his Pascagoula network back up and online and Joe Miller has already 
stated

he will donate his network and resources to lighting up the shelters along
the coast.

JohnnyO

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Importance: High


Rick - Working with Joe Miller in Mississippi - To get Pascagoula back
online - We need a backhaul unit - A TrangoLink10 will do

RE: [WISPA] update from La.

[Shayne Rose]

Mac,

Can you give me the details of your Trango Relief deployments
thus far? Where is Mac doing his work? What town? For whom? Restoring
what?

 

thanks


Shayne Rose
National Sales Manager
Trango Broadband Wireless
a division of Trango Systems, Inc.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mac Dearman
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 11:07 PM
To: WISPA General List; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [WISPA] update from La.


  I am just going to say here are some pictures that I took today. I
didnt take the time to get the crappy ones out :-)  look at your own
risk!

http://65.82.69.13/photo/explorer.php?folder=08-08-2005/

I want to comment a moment on how well we have all worked together and
how easily everyone has gotten along to accomplish the tasks before us
each day. I am proud to be a part of this effort and I have made some
fine friends this week. I must also state that there are some really
smart guys here!!  I think there will be a singing - dancing and all
around "shin-dig" under the tent with live music Friday night - - see
pics

   It will be a most excellent day as we get the rest of the gear that
will enable 400+ evacuees to have an internet connection, VOIP and PCs
set up.. There are several more in the area and I will head down to
check them out in the morning.

  Sharon cooked a tremendous pot of red beans and rice with about 10lbs
of sausage for supper. I am thinking that they are all going to have to
sleep outside tonight ;-( if the music continues at the current rate/db
level.

Later,

--
Mac Dearman
Maximum Access, LLC.
www.inetsouth.com
318-728-8600 - Rayville
318-303-4229
318-303-4231
318-450-4349 - Monroe, La
318-303-4227 - NOC


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Re: [WISPA] Mac Dearman's Camp Featured in Washington Post

[Bo Hamilton]

Congrat! from Ohio.  Good job guys

Bo

John Scrivner wrote:

Congratulations to all you guys for your hard work and great efforts 
down south. You made the Washington Post!  Woo-Hooo!

Scriv


Mike Healy wrote:

Found this in the Washington Post this morning. Thought y'all 
would be interested in seeing it.


You guys are doing great things down there. I only wish I had the 
means to be able to join you. I had hoped to get a bunch of surplus 
PCs to send to you but due to my employer being in bankruptcy we 
aren't able to do that.


Mike

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090802058.html?referrer=email 



*washingtonpost.com* *
Wireless Networks Give Voice To Evacuees*

By Arshad Mohammed
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 9, 2005; A15

Hurricane Katrina survivor Caprice Butler had been at a church 
shelter in rural northeastern Louisiana for nearly a week when she 
finally heard her husband's voice on an Internet phone running on an 
improvised wireless network.


"I was just overjoyed," she said yesterday, tearing up as she spoke 
outside the church in the farming town of Mangham, about 200 miles 
from her flooded New Orleans home. "Words can't explain how I felt."


If the Butlers manage to reunite this weekend, as they hope, it will 
be because of a band of volunteer techies who are stitching together 
wireless networks at shelters across northeastern Louisiana using 
radio transmitters mounted on such items as a grain silo and a water 
tower.


With few reliable communications systems in place, people and 
companies from around the country are converging on the region to 
create improvised networks that give survivors and emergency 
personnel ways to talk and coordinate efforts.


While local telephone and wireless networks are slowly coming back, 
they remain spotty or nonexistent in some places, and fire, police 
and other rescue personnel have complained about the lack of a 
unified emergency communications system. To meet the needs of 
evacuees in Jackson, Miss., Dulles-based America Online has parked an 
18-wheel truck at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds, a major shelter, 
with a satellite dish on top and 20 computers with Internet access 
inside. At the Houston Astrodome, volunteers have obtained a Federal 
Communications Commission license to set up a low-power radio station 
and are now struggling to get permission from local officials to 
broadcast to evacuees inside the stadium.


F4W, a Lake Mary, Fla., company, is under government contract to 
provide Internet phones and online access to Coast Guard officers 
cleaning up oil spills, using a portable satellite dish and handsets 
often deployed in forest fires.


The network at Mangham Baptist Church was the brainchild of Mac 
Dearman, a wireless Internet service provider who was driving past 
the church last week when he saw a group of parked cars, realized 
they were people who had fled the hurricane and set about providing 
relief, including food, clothing and online access.


Dearman hooked up a radio transmitter near the church and linked that 
to a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephone and a computer, 
and suddenly the dozens of people taking refuge at the church had the 
ability to reach out to the outside world.


Mostly, they are searching for loved ones and filling out Federal 
Emergency Management Agency forms to get disaster aid.


"They just call from shelter to shelter to shelter looking for their 
kids or for their daddies or their brothers because they got 
separated, and they are just finding each other in the last few 
days," Dearman said, adding that people were often overwhelmed when 
they connected.


"They cried big tears, hugged my neck, shook my hand and patted me on 
the back. You'd have thought I was really giving them something that 
cost a lot of money," he added.


Dearman is working entirely with donated labor and equipment.

People from as far afield as Nebraska, Missouri and Indiana are 
camped out in his house, coordinating equipment deliveries, searching 
for shelters that need service, and then sending out volunteers to 
climb towers to hook up radio antennas and set up the networks.


"We are basically completely bypassing the phone system," said Matt 
Larsen of Scottsbluff, Neb., who said he was perched on a bar stool 
with his laptop at Dearman's kitchen counter.


Dearman estimated that he had run wireless links to about a dozen 
shelters near his home base of Rayville, La., but only about half 
were up and running because he had run out of equipment.


He was expecting fresh donations of secondhand computers, VoIP phones 
and wireless equipment. Once he has those in hand, he said, he hopes 
to extend to shelters closer to New Orleans and to Mississippi's Gulf 
Coast.


"It's been a godsend," said the Rev. Rick Aultman, pastor of Mangham 
Baptist Church, where about four dozen people are staying.


© 2005 

RE: [WISPA] APNEWS release - - - - - - -

[Rick Smith]

Part-15 isn't dealing with WIMAX either, ARE they !? 

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JohnnyO
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 2:42 PM
To: 'WISPA General List'
Subject: [WISPA] APNEWS release - - - - - - - 
Importance: High

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050909/D8CGDTM00.html


Why isn't there a mention of WISPA in this press release ?   Apparently
someone submitted this to this media person :)

JohnnyO

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Smith
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 11:58 AM
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Where do we ship supplies ?   I've got a UPS store owner up here that's
willing to foot the bill for shipments headed to Mac for relief / evacuee 
supplies

I'm tryin to send an email to all my customers before leavin for some work, so 
if someone could shoot me the contact info asap, I'd appreciate it...

R

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[WISPA] Fw: [WISP] FCC may call on WISPs to offer VoIP || Red Cross wins permission to use 1-800-RED-CROSS

[Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181]

fyi

Marlon
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(408) 907-6910 (Vonage)Consulting services
42846865 (icq)And I run my own wisp!
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- Original Message - 
From: "Alan Spicer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 3:50 PM
Subject: [WISP] FCC may call on WISPs to offer VoIP || Red Cross wins 
permission to use 1-800-RED-CROSS




 Regulatory & Legislative


 FCC may call on WISPs to offer VoIP
 The FCC may ask wireless Internet service providers to offer VoIP
services to relief shelters nationwide where phone service is down. The
agency is working in conjunction with Part-15.org, a group of
spectrum-exempt wireless operators, to devise a relief plan.   Telephony
Online (9/6)

 Red Cross wins permission to use 1-800-RED-CROSS
 The FCC has taken phone number 1-800-RED-CROSS away from its owner,
the company 800-Ideas.com, and given it to the American Red Cross to use 
in
hurricane relief efforts. Under the ruling, the nonprofit will gain 
control

of the number for one year.   Wired (9/7)


Source USTelecom daily lead (United States Telecom Association)

http://telephonyonline.com/wireless/news/Katrina_WISPs_FCC_090605/


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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Computer Services, Wired/Wireless Networking,
Marine Cell/Sat/Landline Communications,
Marine Internet Access



http://telecom.dyndns.biz/



954-683-3426 Business Mobile
954-977-5245 Home Office


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From: "Harry Gallagher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 6:01 PM
Subject: [WISP] Equipment Installers



Hey guy's I am new in this business even though I have been an ISP in the
Houston market for 7 years, anyway I have been working with Jim Patient
and
have the equipment I need and a tower picked out I just need an installer
to
put the equipment up.  The tower owner said it would cost $2000.00 to use
their guys to put up 3 x 120 degree sectors a 2 foot dish and three
radios,
I thought that was a bit much.  Does anyone know who I can use in the
Houston area or even where to look for that type of contractor?

Thank You
Harry Gallagher
President
Qzip.net, Inc
14055 FM 2920, Suite 382
Tomball, Texas 77377
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.qzip.net
Phone: (713) 681-9861
Fax: (713) 681-9863



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Re: [WISPA] Fw: [WISP] FCC may call on WISPs to offer VoIP || Red Crosswins permission to use 1-800-RED-CROSS

[rcomroe]

- Original Message - 
From: "Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 6:15 PM
Subject: [WISPA] Fw: [WISP] FCC may call on WISPs to offer VoIP || Red 
Crosswins permission to use 1-800-RED-CROSS


fyi

Marlon
(509) 982-2181   Equipment sales
(408) 907-6910 (Vonage)Consulting services
42846865 (icq)And I run my own wisp!
64.146.146.12 (net meeting)
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- Original Message - 
From: "Alan Spicer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 3:50 PM
Subject: [WISP] FCC may call on WISPs to offer VoIP || Red Cross wins
permission to use 1-800-RED-CROSS


>  Regulatory & Legislative
>
>
>  FCC may call on WISPs to offer VoIP
>  The FCC may ask wireless Internet service providers to offer VoIP
> services to relief shelters nationwide where phone service is down. The
> agency is working in conjunction with Part-15.org, a group of
> spectrum-exempt wireless operators, to devise a relief plan.   Telephony
> Online (9/6)
>
>  Red Cross wins permission to use 1-800-RED-CROSS
>  The FCC has taken phone number 1-800-RED-CROSS away from its owner,
> the company 800-Ideas.com, and given it to the American Red Cross to use
> in
> hurricane relief efforts. Under the ruling, the nonprofit will gain
> control
> of the number for one year.   Wired (9/7)
>
>
> Source USTelecom daily lead (United States Telecom Association)
>
> http://telephonyonline.com/wireless/news/Katrina_WISPs_FCC_090605/
>
>
> ---
> Alan Spicer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> DBA Alan Spicer Telcom
> Computer Services, Wired/Wireless Networking,
> Marine Cell/Sat/Landline Communications,
> Marine Internet Access
>
>
>
> http://telecom.dyndns.biz/
>
>
>
> 954-683-3426 Business Mobile
> 954-977-5245 Home Office
>
>
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Harry Gallagher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 6:01 PM
> Subject: [WISP] Equipment Installers
>
>
>> Hey guy's I am new in this business even though I have been an ISP in the
>> Houston market for 7 years, anyway I have been working with Jim Patient
>> and
>> have the equipment I need and a tower picked out I just need an installer
>> to
>> put the equipment up.  The tower owner said it would cost $2000.00 to use
>> their guys to put up 3 x 120 degree sectors a 2 foot dish and three
>> radios,
>> I thought that was a bit much.  Does anyone know who I can use in the
>> Houston area or even where to look for that type of contractor?
>>
>> Thank You
>> Harry Gallagher
>> President
>> Qzip.net, Inc
>> 14055 FM 2920, Suite 382
>> Tomball, Texas 77377
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> www.qzip.net
>> Phone: (713) 681-9861
>> Fax: (713) 681-9863
>>
>>
>>
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RE: [WISPA] Fw: [TVWHITESPACE] NAF press release

[Rick Harnish]

Done, on the WISPA homepage, thanks Michael!

Rick Harnish
President
OnlyInternet Broadband & Wireless, Inc.
260-827-2482 Office
260-307-4000 Cell
260-918-4340 VoIP
www.oibw.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  
 


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Barry at Mutual Data
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 11:34 AM
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Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Fw: [TVWHITESPACE] NAF press release

Hello,

This press release really needs to be posted on a website so it can be
referred to when
discussing this with our clients...

Barry

Friday, September 9, 2005, 12:17:46 PM, you wrote:

  
 
MKS592> fyi
 
MKS592>  
 
MKS592> Marlon
MKS592> (509)  982-2181    Equipment sales
MKS592> (408) 907-6910  (Vonage)     Consulting services
MKS592> 42846865  (icq)     And I run my own
wisp!
MKS592> 64.146.146.12 (net meeting)
MKS592> www.odessaoffice.com/wireless
MKS592> www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam
 
MKS592>  
 

MKS592>  
 
MKS592> - Original Message - 
MKS592> From: Jim Snider  
 
MKS592> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
 
MKS592> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 8:53 AM
 
MKS592> Subject: [TVWHITESPACE] NAF press release
 

 
MKS592> A copy of the press release NAF sent  out this morning. 
 
MKS592> --Jim 
 
MKS592> J.H. Snider, Ph.D.  
MKS592> Senior Research  Fellow 
MKS592> New America  Foundation 
MKS592> 1630  Connecticut Ave., NW 
MKS592> Washington, DC 20009 
MKS592> Phone: 202/986-2700 
MKS592> Fax: 202/986-3696 
MKS592> Web: www.newamerica.net  
MKS592> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
MKS592> (Also see my new book on digital TV  policy and politics 
MKS592> www.spectrumpolicy.net) 

 
MKS592> MEDIA  BACKGROUNDER
 
MKS592> Contact: Michael Calabrese, (202) 986-2700 (x327),
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
MKS592> J.H. Snider,  (202) 986-2700 (x226), [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
MKS592> KATRINA DEMONSTRATES  FAILURE OF CURRENT U.S. SPECTRUM POLICY
 
MKS592> (WASHINGTON--September 9, 2005) In  recent days the
MKS592> press has extensively covered the telecommunications breakdown
MKS592> in New Orleans and the attempts of telephone, cable, and
MKS592> broadcast companies to  reinstate service and help disaster
MKS592> victims. What has not been covered as  extensively in the
MKS592> media is the lack of communications at dozens of rural 
MKS592> Louisiana shelters and the efforts of Wireless Internet
MKS592> Service Providers  (WISPs), which use unlicensed spectrum, to
MKS592> address this  problem.
 
MKS592> Earlier this week, such stories were  featured at a
MKS592> Capitol Hill forum sponsored by the New America Foundation and
MKS592> the  Congressional Future of American Media Caucus. Rep. Diane
MKS592> Watson, D-CA, bemoaned  the lack of telecommunications
MKS592> services after the storm and said that it pointed  "to the
MKS592> serious failure and the lack of preparedness in our nation's 
MKS592> telecommunications policy." New America Foundation Vice
MKS592> President Michael  Calabrese added, "It is simply not
MKS592> affordable anytime soon to be stringing fiber  lines to rural
MKS592> areas, but wireless networks can provide broadband
MKS592> communications  services very quickly and inexpensively."
 
MKS592> As New Orleans is being evacuated,  thousands of
MKS592> evacuees are streaming out into the countryside where churches
MKS592> and  communities have set up shelters to take care of them.
MKS592> Unfortunately, many of  these shelters lack telecommunications
MKS592> service. Responding to this need, dozens  of rural WISPs have
MKS592> poured into rural Louisiana to help out. 
 
MKS592> As of midday Thursday, WISPs were  providing service
MKS592> to more than 1,100 evacuees at the following shelters: Mangham
MKS592> Baptist (Mangham, LA), Delhi Civic Center (Delhi, LA), Baskin
MKS592> First Baptist  (Baskin, LA), Grace Fellowship (Baskin, LA),
MKS592> River of Life Church (Winnsboro,  LA), Tallulah Community
MKS592> Center (Tallulah, LA), and Parkview Baptist (Richmond,  LA).
MKS592> The following shelters were also expected to get service by
MKS592> the end of the  day: King's Camp (Mer Rouge, LA), Richland
MKS592> Baptist Encampment (Alto, LA),  Antioch Baptist (Rayville,
MKS592> LA), and Archibald Church of God (Archibald,  LA).

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Re: [WISPA] APNEWS release - - - - - - -

[Mark Koskenmaki]

Yes, one of the P15 teams is deploying some wimax equipment.



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>
> Part-15 isn't dealing with WIMAX either, ARE they !?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of JohnnyO
> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 2:42 PM
> To: 'WISPA General List'
> Subject: [WISPA] APNEWS release - - - - - - -
> Importance: High
>
> http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050909/D8CGDTM00.html
>
>
> Why isn't there a mention of WISPA in this press release ?   Apparently
> someone submitted this to this media person :)
>
> JohnnyO
>
> -Original Message-
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Behalf Of Rick Smith
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> To: WISPA General List
> Subject: [WISPA] Mac Dearman's Address / contact
>
>
>
> Where do we ship supplies ?   I've got a UPS store owner up here that's
> willing to foot the bill for shipments headed to Mac for relief / evacuee
supplies
>
> I'm tryin to send an email to all my customers before leavin for some
work, so if someone could shoot me the contact info asap, I'd appreciate
it...
>
> R
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Re: [WISPA] Mac Dearman's Camp Featured in Washington Post

[Tom DeReggi]

Mid week, I contacted all the Wash Post writers that I had direct contact 
info for, and sent them copies of the Press Release on the WISPA web site 
regarding Mac's Crisis center.  I'd like to think that that had helped get 
the awareness out to the Wash Post, as well.  I advise that other WISPs also 
contact their local newspapers, and point reference to the story on the 
WISPA web site.


Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband

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Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 10:56 AM
Subject: [WISPA] Mac Dearman's Camp Featured in Washington Post


Congratulations to all you guys for your hard work and great efforts down 
south. You made the Washington Post!  Woo-Hooo!

Scriv


Mike Healy wrote:

Found this in the Washington Post this morning. Thought y'all 
would be interested in seeing it.


You guys are doing great things down there. I only wish I had the means 
to be able to join you. I had hoped to get a bunch of surplus PCs to send 
to you but due to my employer being in bankruptcy we aren't able to do 
that.


Mike

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090802058.html?referrer=email

*washingtonpost.com* *
Wireless Networks Give Voice To Evacuees*

By Arshad Mohammed
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 9, 2005; A15

Hurricane Katrina survivor Caprice Butler had been at a church shelter in 
rural northeastern Louisiana for nearly a week when she finally heard her 
husband's voice on an Internet phone running on an improvised wireless 
network.


"I was just overjoyed," she said yesterday, tearing up as she spoke 
outside the church in the farming town of Mangham, about 200 miles from 
her flooded New Orleans home. "Words can't explain how I felt."


If the Butlers manage to reunite this weekend, as they hope, it will be 
because of a band of volunteer techies who are stitching together 
wireless networks at shelters across northeastern Louisiana using radio 
transmitters mounted on such items as a grain silo and a water tower.


With few reliable communications systems in place, people and companies 
from around the country are converging on the region to create improvised 
networks that give survivors and emergency personnel ways to talk and 
coordinate efforts.


While local telephone and wireless networks are slowly coming back, they 
remain spotty or nonexistent in some places, and fire, police and other 
rescue personnel have complained about the lack of a unified emergency 
communications system. To meet the needs of evacuees in Jackson, Miss., 
Dulles-based America Online has parked an 18-wheel truck at the 
Mississippi State Fairgrounds, a major shelter, with a satellite dish on 
top and 20 computers with Internet access inside. At the Houston 
Astrodome, volunteers have obtained a Federal Communications Commission 
license to set up a low-power radio station and are now struggling to get 
permission from local officials to broadcast to evacuees inside the 
stadium.


F4W, a Lake Mary, Fla., company, is under government contract to provide 
Internet phones and online access to Coast Guard officers cleaning up oil 
spills, using a portable satellite dish and handsets often deployed in 
forest fires.


The network at Mangham Baptist Church was the brainchild of Mac Dearman, 
a wireless Internet service provider who was driving past the church last 
week when he saw a group of parked cars, realized they were people who 
had fled the hurricane and set about providing relief, including food, 
clothing and online access.


Dearman hooked up a radio transmitter near the church and linked that to 
a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephone and a computer, and 
suddenly the dozens of people taking refuge at the church had the ability 
to reach out to the outside world.


Mostly, they are searching for loved ones and filling out Federal 
Emergency Management Agency forms to get disaster aid.


"They just call from shelter to shelter to shelter looking for their kids 
or for their daddies or their brothers because they got separated, and 
they are just finding each other in the last few days," Dearman said, 
adding that people were often overwhelmed when they connected.


"They cried big tears, hugged my neck, shook my hand and patted me on the 
back. You'd have thought I was really giving them something that cost a 
lot of money," he added.


Dearman is working entirely with donated labor and equipment.

People from as far afield as Nebraska, Missouri and Indiana are camped 
out in his house, coordinating equipment deliveries, searching for 
shelters that need service, and then sending out volunteers to climb 
towers to hook up radio antennas and set up the networks.


"We are basically completely bypassing the phone system," said Matt 
Larsen of Scottsbluff, Neb., who said he was perched on a bar