Hi Ted, Noticed your company based in PORTERVILLE. I
am originally from the Reedley/Sanger area and my
family had a resturant and men's clothing store in
Porterville long time ago (Figueroa's). One of my
other friend's is deploying wireless in Orange Cove. I
also work with Integrity Networks in Fresno. Do you
know them? http://www.integritynet.com/
Did Clearwire ever deploy their network in Visalia?
Best Regards,
Felix
Fellow Central Valleyite.
--- John Scrivner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please join me in welcoming Ted Olson of OACYS
> Technology as WISPA's
> newest Principal Member. Here is a little about Ted
> and his company:
>
>
> OACYS (pronounced as in "oasis") turned 25 this
> year, I founded it in
> 1982 after many years as a military and commercial
> helicopter pilot.
> There's no connection, except for maybe an odd sense
> of adventure and a
> certain lack of good sense. We worked from CP/M to
> DOS and Windows and
> networks and software development, then in 1995
> bought some bandwidth
> and a case of modems and became an ISP, the first in
> our semi-rural
> community of about 30K then (now 50K).
>
> In the late 90s we tangled with PacBell over the
> privilege of reselling
> their DSL. We're a charter member of CISPA and spent
> quite a bit of
> money on that battle, until I got fed up and decided
> that anything
> further in that direction was going to be a very
> bumpy road that would
> eventually turn into a dead-end.
>
> We're pretty independent sorts so we took a deep
> breath, white-boarded a
> new game plan, and turned exclusively to wireless.
> Never looked back.
> Karlnet stuff first, now mostly Trango in all the
> usual unlicensed bands.
>
> I was chairman of CISPA's first wireless committee,
> but got way too busy
> with our own business to have enough time to do that
> justice so I passed
> the baton. We're still members, but with only a few
> (and far between)
> wireless exceptions that group is still fighting the
> DSL battle so we
> don't really participate any more. I just posted a
> reference to WISPA in
> reply to a couple of enquiries on their list about
> 700 MHz, maybe you'll
> pick up another new member or two.
>
> We cover around 2,500 square miles of mostly rural
> area at the base of
> the Sierra Nevadas, and also up into several small
> foothill and mountain
> valleys that may never be served by DSL or cable.
> Wouldn't matter to us
> anyway, we own those markets now and our service is
> so good we'd be very
> hard to unseat.
>
> We have a dozen employees averaging close to ten
> years each, and around
> 2000 subs (60-40% residential and business). Our
> only wireless
> competition is Clearwire, but they're not affecting
> our business (they
> may be helping) and our growth is steady.
>
> Our CLEC application is now going through the
> approval process at CPUC.
> We've started selling VoIP (Asterisk box) and now
> need the advantages of
> a CLEC, previously it wasn't worth the cost.
>
> We've been aware of WISPA for a long time, but it
> was a recent article
> about CALEA that got us thinking we should probably
> join. I've been
> lurking in your mail list for a while, just to see
> what's going on ...
> we might be interested in supporting your 700 MHz
> efforts. We've of
> course been filing 477s for several years.
>
> Unfortunately for us there are apparently enough
> small cities elsewhere
> in our county to disqualify our CMA (150) as being
> rural. The extra 20%
> would have been nice but it's not really a
> deterrent, providing I can
> get some idea of what a realistic bid might be from
> our perspective. It
> looks like the average award in Auction 66 went for
> around $12 million,
> which would be WAY out of our reach.
>
> I'd like to know more about your previous experience
> with FCC auctions.
> That alone makes it worthwhile to join and help
> support your committee
> and lobbying efforts, is that still open at $1000?
> Our time is limited
> (just like yours), but we'll help as much as we can.
> Cheers,
> -Ted
> Note to Ted and others from Scriv
>
> I have extended the $1000 to join the 700 MHz
> Committee for a bit
> longer. I am guessing this deal will go away for
> goos in a couple of
> weeks though. If you are on the fence for getting
> into the 70 MHz
> efforts hen please join now by sending your check
> for $1000 to:
>
> WISPA
> Attn: 700 MHz Committee
> PO Box 1582
> Mt. Vernon, IL. 62864
>
> We appreciate your WISPA support whether you have an
> interest in 700 MHz
> or not. That goes for all of you out there who
> support WISPA. A big
> thank you to all. Back to you Ted.Scriv
>
>
> Ted Olson
> President and CEO
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> OACYS Technology
> 767 North Porter Road
> Porterville, CA 93257
> 559.781.4123
>
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