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 To: WISPA General List 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). snipped. -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
