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I agree wholeheartedly with 'I believe a much better phrase is
"the under
served".' I have customers in towns, just that the town is too small to be "served." Scott Reed Owner NewWays Wireless Networking Network Design, Installation and Administration www.nwwnet.net ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Tom DeReggi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 15:48:00 -0400 Subject: Re: [WISPA] FCC meeting > Word of advice.... > > I agree tht disaster relief should be a large focus of the meeting. Not only > a review of how we helped, but why it is impairative the the FCC includes > WISPs in its future plans for solutions for disaster relief. > > >rural services. > > I believe one of the most harmful images that is portrayed today by WISPs is > that WISPs are about "rural". I believe a much better phrase is "the under > served". In order to gain strength as an industry, we can not JUST focus on > the "rural" parts of the country, we exclude 50% of the WISPA members by > doing that, and the consumers in suburban america that need our help and > strengthen our potential volume. Otherwise, we get labeled as such. > "underserved" by default covers all of rural america, as well as the 25% of > urban and suburban America that are still underserved. > > The fact is there is a percentage of American that are better served with > wireless technology, and we can not discriminate by region, but inform that > we need assets in all regions to maximize the number of people we can help, > where Wireless would be more beneficial. A large part of the EAST coast is > very hilly and heavilly tree'd, and not considered "rural" by the > government. We all need 700Mhz. > > 700Mhz is the hot item to fight for, for the "under served". > > We need to also remind the FCC, thatwe need legislation that subsidized and > supports survival of this industry that can be an intricate part of the > solution and safety for this country. Bring point to true redundancy and > diversity, and what is required for that. A redundant wireless system > doesn't do the nation any good if it shares all the same Telco COs, > backbones, and core data centers. Attention need to be brought that the > WISP community is no longer just a group of last mile backyard companies > extending the telco networks, but are growing to size where we really have > our networks runing in parallel to the telco networks offering true diverse > path and redundancy necessary for homeland security and disaster prevention, > and recovery. By including WISPs, in a tragedy less recovery would ever be > needed in the first place. > > Tom DeReggi > RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc > IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 2:49 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] FCC meeting > > > Hiya, > > > > There are a number of new people at the FCC. And those there who are our > > friends need to be kept in the loop as to what's going on. > > > > The WISPA FCC committee and the attendees will determine the exact content > > of the visit. > > > > I'd expect talk about disaster relief, rural services, and mostly what we > > need in order to do an even better job yet. > > > > laters, > > 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: "Dawn DiPietro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > > Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 6:20 AM > > Subject: Re: [WISPA] FCC meeting > > > > > >> Marlon, > >> > >> Just a little curious as to what message WISPA is trying to portray at > >> the FCC meeting? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Dawn > >> -- > >> 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/ > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.9/116 - Release Date: 9/30/2005 > > > > > > -- > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ ------- End of Original Message ------- |
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