Mr. Koskenmaki, I am sorry to see that you felt a flame was directed upon you.
Personally, I take the reference to Tim May as an undeserved complement. But Tim's works do pre-date a lot of the younger crowd. BTW, Tim's manifesto is well worthy of the few minutes of time it will take anyone interested to track down and read. First, I want to make it clear that my reason for anonymity has everything to do with not wishing my business related affiliations to be impacted by these posts. I wish it were not so, but the reality is that I do not enjoy separation of work life from personal life in this list. Ok, back to the point, Marlon asked, what should we be doing. EXCELLENT question. SUGGESTIONS of what to do: 1) Inform the AP / UPI that as an industry group, we have decided to stage a cyclic disconnect from public Inet in protest. 2) As a group, inform the subs what we are doing so they are not in the dark and clueless. Try to recruit their support. 3) Present to the press the WISPA member total subs count, and ask for the FCC / Gov to really evaluate the economic impact to GDP per state / national level that shutting off wisps would result in. 4) Also, notify NCTA to please issue a revised broadband survey report with wisp networks removed, thus likely bring the USA from 30th in the world to 40th or 50th in broadband deployment. This MAY have other consequences such as the world bank / OECD may feel obligated to stick their noses into the USA political processes. 5) Most IMPORTANTLY... Expend resources to properly investigate, report, and expose the apparent impropriety that exists in telco / cableco lobby connections to the DOJ and SEC. 6) Begin in an honest effort to negotiate / create secured WIRELESS and/or wholly operator owned wired interconnects amongst WISPA/CLEC networks. 7) Publish ideas for encouraging CO-OP style community network ownership. I feel like the YOKE placed upon WISPs by CALEA compliance requirements is misplaced. Simply put, IMHO, it has been leveraged as a tool to exercise control over your growth. In fact to stifle that growth. I have said enough and my real objective has been accomplished. Signing off now, for good. Thanks to all for your efforts as WISPs and as WISPA members. To Marlon, Scriv, Dave, your efforts and dedication have made this much bigger than I initially thought it could be. Perhaps though, it is time to increase the size of the effort overall and approach the CLEC groups (Comptel/Ascent) members to see if there may be a long term relation which can be formed as an effort to disrupt the reformation of monopolistic practices in the communication systems. I know we can present acceptable options to the American Public at large, and it must start with education, press, and getting the options to be understood. If WISPA forms a committee for integrating with CLECs, I will be keeping watch of your progress, and gladly contribute to said committee from a distance. Peace and Freedom, XXX -- Free health insurance quotes. Great rates for individuals and families. Click Now. http://tagline.hushmail.com/fc/CAaCXv1QUc7pPR9xhMKLHJzdlkTL6iG9/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
