Marlon, Dr. Bob LaRose, College of Communication, Michigan State University. I'll call Dr. Bobby tomorrow and get his contact info. He is a wizard at this type research, and very knowledgeable in Telecomm. Has a bachelors in Engineering, really bright guy. Ron Wallace
>-----Original Message----- >From: Marlon K. Schafer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 11:43 AM >To: 'Principal WISPA Member List' >Cc: 'WISPA General List' >Subject: [WISPA] wisp survey > >Hi All, > >OK, we're not going to get most wisps to fill out the 477 any time soon. At >least it's historically looking that way. > >2 years ago I brow beat the major vendors and manufacturers into giving me >the number of wisps that they show on the books and/or radios sold into the >US market in the last 4 years. > >That effort lead to the belief that there are a genuine uncontestable 3000 >wisps in this country with a minimum of 1,000,000 subscribers. Numbers that >the FCC folks still use today as being more accurate than the 477. > >Does anyone know of a research group that we could hire to repeat my efforts >in the past. Something that might be more effective yet? There has to be a >better way to do this than the 477. > >Any ideas on the costs to do this project? Should we even put any effort >into it? > >Could this be done by a group of scholars at a college? > >Looking back on the data that I'd gotten at the time and how I calculated >things, I think that the real number of wisps was likely closer to 6000. >Today my gut tells me that that number is up by 25ish % and that the >customers serviced is likely at least double what it was back in late 2004. >I know MY customer base has more than doubled since that time. > >thoughts? >marlon > >-- >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/
