That is not going to happen Tom. Not by a long shot. Nothing
fly-by-night about anything Kelley Dunne and Bill Wallace have ever
done. These are class acts in every sense of the word. Very smart. Very
talented. Very successful. Nothing left to chance. And damn nice people
too that are a dream to work for. You can't believe how people clamor to
work for them. I've known Kelley since 2002 and my personal regard for
him is no less than I have for many of the WISP personalities I hold
most dear. His commitment to underserved markets is second to none and
goes back his entire career.

By the way, his NOC is not far from one of your NoVA pops; it is right
there in Ashburn near Dulles.

Patrick Leary
AVP, Market Development
Alvarion, Inc.
o: 650.314.2628
c: 760.580.0080
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Tom DeReggi
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 11:46 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Future

Another bankruptcy waiting to happen. 

Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Travis Johnson 
  To: WISPA General List 
  Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 8:35 AM
  Subject: Re: [WISPA] Future


  Hi,

  A new player just came to my area... BridgeMaxx (a Digital Bridge
company). They are using Alvarion WiMax equipment. We have a test radio
that we play with. We have their "up to 3meg premium service" and we
barely get 1meg (any time we have tested over the last 3 months).

  Here's the real kicker... they will have spent $40 million dollars to
roll out 15 cities (this is direct from their GM to me). She was pretty
proud of herself with that statement. So that's $2.6 million per city...
and I'm talking some cities with 15,000 population (their biggest had
120,000).

  Travis
  Microserv

  Chuck McCown - 2 wrote: 
WiMAX was dead, is dead and will remain dead.  OK, not factually true
but 
emotionally true.  The cell companies will use  WiMax frequencies and 
technologies but they will be a premium service and not well suited to 
compete with us for point to multi point fixed wireless.  It will never
live 
up to the hype.

All the cell data technologies will remain premium for folks on the go. 
Cell does not want to squander the bandwidth to go after the value
driven 
customer that love us so much.  Cell is and will not be value leader for

fixed wireless. technologies.

700 MHz is just not going to be used for anything other than more cell 
spectrum.  The bands are narrow.  Good for phone and limited amounts of 
data.  Great propagation. Problem with 700 MHz is that the size of the 
antenna will be problematic for really small cell phones.  Less gain
than 
the current 900 and 1800 antennas for the same physical sizes.  Also
there 
will be a few years of implementation due to moving some existing TV 
stations.  And some of them are not moving for some reason.  I don't
know if 
they get a special dispensation or what.

All ILECs will continue to build out with fiber to the home.  That will 
erode market share for WISPs in some areas.  This is a slow and capital 
intensive process so no reason to get jumpy on that.  Plus many folks
prefer 
to deal with us vs a large public traded company.  Superior customer
service 
and support will always retain the customer.

The cable companies will continue to shoot themselves in the foot and
drop 
the balls.  They are sooo freaked out by the erosion of customer base
from 
DirecTV that they are not managing the IP side of the house as well as
they 
could.  They will continue to get in a tighter and tighter cash
situation 
from satellite TV pressing from one side and the ILEC FTTH (and us) from
the 
other.

In the meantime, we add VOIP, computer repair, data backup, web
development, 
OTA HDTV install and maint, etc as cross sell and up sell opportunities.

All of us can offer triple play if we team up with DirecTV or OTA HDTV.
OTA 
HDTV is a wonderful opportunity for the next 18 months for the value 
conscious customer.  Stock UHF TV antennas and converter boxes and help 
folks get their analog TVs converted over.  Less work than a WISP
install 
and you will lock in the customer even more with superior customer
service. 
You can rent them the gear for $5/month and make it a low cost package.

In 5 years hopefully your investment will be a cash cow and you will
ride 
this horse until it dies.  Perhaps other technologies will come along
for us 
to deploy but I see our segment strong for the next 5 years.  In 10
years, 
if we have not diversified, we will probably be hurting.

Oh, and satellite ISP will never do much.  Pesky physics.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Hammett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 6:44 PM
Subject: [WISPA] Future


  What do you see as the future of our industry over the next 5 years?

AT&T is expanding U-Verse (will this be available outside of town?)
Verizon is expanding FiOS (will this be available outside of town?)
Cable will be using DOCSIS 3
3G will gain more steam
WiMAX will have larger and larger shares of the market
700 MHz will be in use possibly for data communications by the big guys


My banker asked me, so I figured I'd see what other's opinions are.

My thought is that the big guys mentioned above will continue to avoid
the 
niche that we currently serve and we'll be able to provide better
services 
with more spectrum (5.4 GHz, additional 2.5 GHz, 3.6 GHz, possibly TV 
white spaces) and WiMAX.


----------
Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com



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