That was a PR from June 2008 Matt, when few vendors even had certified product in the market for more than a month or two. Further, Manish is not even here any longer. I joined, first as a full time consultant, in October 22, 2008. Check out PRs since September when the new CEO, Brian, joined.
There is plenty to debate here without grinding axes and manufacturing faux criticism. Patrick Leary Aperto Networks 813.426.4230 mobile -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of mlio...@r337.com Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7:02 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] 3650Mhz and Wimax Vendors > That may be, but Aperto did issue a press release for one customer. > And, it turns out that customer only has one radio authorization. > Further, you mention Tolly Marcus, but what about you? Did you not > represent yourself at WiMAX World as a Zing employee? > > What are people supposed to think given the situation? Did Zing pick > Aperto based on merit or an employee relationship? Does Zing have more > than one Aperto radio deployed? Either they haven't deployed many > radios or they have done so illegally. Both possibilities seem to make > them a poor choice for Aperto to use as a representative customer. > This is especially true given both Patrick and your statements > regarding how little Aperto issues press releases. Shouldn't that mean > the press releases actually issued are more important? > It turns out I made a mistake. In further reading it appears that Zing is not the only customer Aperto issued a press release for. There was also a press release issued for NextPhase Wireless now called MetroConnect. Interestingly, MetroConnect has zero radio authorizations. Also of interest is the following quote from the Aperto press release: "This is the first of many significant wins we expect to announce this year in the 3.65 GHz band in the U.S.," said Manish Gupta, Vice President of Marketing & Alliances for Aperto Networks and WiMAX Forum Board Member. The above quote seems to suggest to the reader that MetroConnect is a significant win and that Aperto would announce additional significant wins in the future. To date the only other announcement was Zing. Now maybe MetroConnect bought a bunch of radios and didn't bother to register them with the FCC. Of course, you have to wonder how significant of a win MetroConnect could be when during the quarter the press release was issued MetroConnect's SEC filings state they had $2k of cash on hand. Since that time MetroConnect's revenue has declined each quarter and now they state their cash on hand is $0. -Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
