Butch,
Then, the "music" turned to "noise"....
You hit the nail right on the head, with your comment.
They talked up broadband, but then gave us Personal portable instead, and
said, "but we really need to consider PTP, CLECs and Carriers are also a
very important part of broadband delivery"..
The problem was not the WISPA messengers or message, Jack, Steve and FCC
committee did an awesome job, about as good as humanly possible. But the
commission obviously was not listening, or chose to ignore us. What was
clear is that they hear Google and Microsoft loud and clear. Atleast, we
know where we stand now.
We also have a focused goal moving forward. The rules are still easy to fix,
if the FCC will allow it. All they have to do is waive the magic wand and
change "100mw" to "4w" (at least for non-adjacent channels), and it'll be
fixed. We can survive in UNlicensed we've done it from day one, but we can't
survive without adequate power.
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
----- Original Message -----
From: "Butch Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Wispa List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Cc: "WISPA Members List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:34 PM
Subject: [WISPA] My favorite quotes from the FCC TVWS meeting today...
Commissioner Adelstein has long been a pretty good friend of our
industry. In truth, I have not always agreed with him, but
in his comments today he made a couple of statements that were
"music to my ears". Then, the "music" turned to "noise"....
"White spaces are the blank pages on which we will write our
broadband future."
I can't agree more. He also said:
"Today’s decision is consequential to our nation’s future because
wireless broadband has the potential to improve our economy and
quality of life in even the remotest areas."
Again, when I heard this, I thought he must REALLY "get it". Then,
he went on to say this:
"Unlicensed spectrum holds by far the most promise for maximizing
the use of white spaces. Our balanced approach in this order
provides the flexibility and low barriers to entry needed to provide
an opportunity for everyone to make the best use of this under-used
spectrum. It also implements safeguards to protect those that
already make valuable use of the spectrum."
WHAT? The "most promise"? I'm not horribly disappointed about the
overall likely outcome of the rules, but how can he think that
unlicensed at 100mW is going to "maximize the use" of anything?
Unlicensed used has not been bad for us as WISPs in the past, but
these power levels will not give us anywhere near the useful
spectrum that the WISPA suggested "licensed lite" approach could
have offered. I won't continue in disecting his statement since
most of it was not something I am very positive about.
All talk today centered around point-to-point deployments and
nothing about ptmp. This is not a perfect scenario, but it's not a
total loss. I strongly suggest that all interested parties (that's
you if you are a WISP) at least read the statements and news release
at http://www.fcc.gov/ and see for yourself.
I don't think the decisions were a total loss. We did get
geolocation, which is very important to WISPA's position. We also
got adjacent channel space, which was very unexpected. The only
real problems I see are the lack of sufficient power, which is
because they chose unlicensed over license lite. Our FCC committee
worked very hard to get us to this point. I don't think any of us
realize how much time Jack Unger and Steve Coran put into this issue
on our behalf over the past 2-3 weeks. If you have not personally
thanked them, you really should take a minute to do so.
My personal take on this is that they wanted to do "something" but
not too much. I think I sense a "new battleground" forming when the
new commission takes over next year. It is for this reason, that I
urge ALL OF YOU (me, too) to do 3 things over the next few months:
1. If you are not already, become a WISPA member. We would not be
at this point without your financial support.
2. If you have not already done so, become familiar with WHY the
TVWS are (or will be) beneficial to you and your network. This will
prepare you for the upcoming fight.
3. Join the debates which are sure to come over the next few weeks
to help WISPA prepare to continue the fight for this most valuable
of spectrums for our cause.
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* Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation*
* http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering *
* http://www.wispa.org/ * WISPA Board Member *
* http://blog.butchevans.com/ * Wired or Wireless Networks *
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