Dear cw,
Thank you for your opinion. I respectfully disagree.
There's nothing wrong with admitting that small local providers can't
afford to comply with the same requirements that big carriers like AT&T
can comply with. That's the problem here; small local businesses are
being asked to shell out more money than they can afford just so the
FBI/DOJ/ATF/CIA/NSA/DHS can quickly and conveniently wiretap. As to
whether the big carriers have provided input to the FCC
(FBI/DOJ/ATF/CIA/NSA/DHS) on this issue; the jury is out on that
question for the moment.
jack
P.S. - The issue of obtaining more spectrum from the FCC will be moot
once the ranks of the small, local license-free spectrum users are
thinned much further. In short, no one will be around to need any more
spectrum.
cw wrote:
My opinion is that you're not helping the big picture by saying
compliance is more than you can handle. The FCC is not going to go out
of their way to hand out more spectrum to providers that can't perform
basic requirements. Just like they're not going to help providers that
refuse to file 475 forms. You can build a unix box for five hundred
dollars that will do the job for you. Or you can buy a turnkey box with
support for seven thousand. I've seen it suggested people pool their
funds and share a $7000 turnkey box. If you can't do any of these
things, then you can't provide required services. I don't like or trust
government but I don't think they're out of line requiring providers be
CALEA compliant. This one ain't special interests motivated. - cw
Jack Unger wrote:
Dear Representative Stupak,
I'm writing to support your request on March 14, 2007 asking that the
FCC Commissioners consider a waiver from CALEA regulations for small
broadband providers.
In a nutshell, the costs of complying with the CALEA provisions are
far in excess of what small broadband providers can afford to pay. It
is poor government policy to allow the costs of CALEA compliance to
literally put small broadband providers out of business thereby
denying broadband Internet access to many rural Americans.
Do you plan to introduce legislation that directs the FCC to
reconsider their regulations and to consider the compliance costs when
regulating small Internet access providers?
Please advise me how I can further support your effort to retain
broadband Internet access service for rural Americans.
Thank you for your time, interest, and efforts.
Sincerely,
Jack Unger
P.S. - I am copying this email to the general email list maintained by
the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA.org) to
help as many small ISPs as possible learn about and support your
efforts in their behalf. I will forward your response to this list.
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