Marlon, My opinion, but you should polish it considerably. Be more clear Marlon and concise, and totally eliminate the are-you-crazy tone. This letter is suitable if you are an individual, it is not suitable if being sent on behalf of WISPA. While impassioned, it really is not professional and will show WISPA in a bad light.
As I said, it is just my opinion my friend. Patrick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 9:47 AM To: wireless@wispa.org Subject: [WISPA] Open letter to the IEEE Anyone Mind if I send this out???? Dear Sirs, Please forgive the tone of this email, but you guys are killin' me. KILLING me!!!! I just read your latest proposal for the TV whitespaces. While I fully agree with much of what you've said (no personal portable devices, no auctions, TPC, cognitive radio, NO interference to grandma's TV or wireless mic's etc.) I'm shocked at the other half. What's needed is an unlicensed band that can be deployed similar to that of cable and DSL. That is, mail the customer a pre programmed radio, they plug it in and poof, you have internet. No truck roll. At the very least, we need easy to install and configure devices and LOW, LOW prices for it. Technically, your document is great and makes a tremendous amount of sense. Practically, it'll make any spectrum that's released all but useless. 33' minimum antenna heights? Pre programmed exclusion zones? No accounting for LOCAL terrain or foliage? Geolocation of EVERY CPE device? You've, via your standards proposal, eliminated 90% of the customers and 99% of the operators from using this band. Very few people will be able to justify the $500 (probably closer to $1000) installation costs of these systems. And who's going to want another ugly old TV antenna install at their houses? People are taking down those old ugly 30 to 100' crank up towers beside their houses, not putting them back up! There is NO need for the outdoor only, or minimum antenna height requirement. You say it's needed to help deal with local interference issues etc. But that's not likely the case. If WE can't hear the broadcasting system, neither can anyone else in the area and we'll not likely interfere either. Especially at the very low signal levels you have built into your standard for the incumbent detection mechanism. I'd be all in favor of a beacon system in which any cpe would be able to identify the owner of the ap. Then the people that need to figure out anything on a cpe side can come to me to get the data on who's where. I'll already have a name and address, I don't need GPS too. Speaking of GPS. Why in the world do you guys think that we can put in dual antenna systems for EVERY customer? We'll need the rec. antenna AND a GPS one for each cpe under your plan. The spectrum needs to be unlicensed (registered I could live with but don't like it, just more paperwork), it needs to be really inexpensive to deploy and it needs to be totally customizable based on LOCAL conditions. One of the very reasons to use sub GHz bands is the penetration through trees. Now you guys are suggesting that we get up there over much of the foliage in EVERY installation? No thanks. We'll go high when we need to, otherwise we want to stay out of site, out of the wind and easy to get to when there's snow on the roof! The Wireless Internet Service Provider's Association will be happy to help you with your standard. As it is, it looks like this standard was developed by and for companies that are interested in high margin devices rather than high volume devices. Our industry has plenty of high margin products to choose from already. Backhaul products are stable and plentiful. Everything from wireless, to copper to fiber is an option in the right conditions. What we need mostly right now is medium speed cheap products that will go through walls and trees etc. If our customers wanted us to put in towers that would get them up over most of the tree canopy we'd already be doing it. People want the internet but they aren't willing to pay $500++++ for it in any kind of marketable numbers. Thank you for you time, Marlon K. Schafer WISPA FCC committee chairman (509) 982-2181 Equipment sales (408) 907-6910 (Vonage) Consulting services 42846865 (icq) And I run my own wisp! 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