Preach it Tom! Wake up folks.
Regardless of your political views, your approval/disapproval of the stimulus package it's out there and the money is becoming available. WE PAID INTO THIS WITH OUR TAXES! IT'S OUR MONEY! I don't know about all you, but I have been preparing business and product plans since November and am waiting like a hawk for the grant process to be defined. Tom DeReggi wrote: > Brian, > > Thats where I disagree. I'm surprised to hear it come from you. > > Quick Note: Just two years ago, CN was nobody. They have gotten clout > because they got off their hind side and started working on a solution to > the problem. But CN has had lots of critisim, they are not invincible. > > What you should be doing is writting your ticket to financial freedom, by > preparing plans for WISPs. > Grant awardees can't write checks to themselves, but they can write checks > to their solution providers and contractors necessary to fullfil their > obligations of and goals for their grants. > > Brian, many WISPs like your work and see the value, but aren't paying you > now for services because they simply don't have the budget for it. The grant > program is an opportunity to get in "in the budget". If mapping isn't > included in their grant apps, it won't likely be in their budget after their > award either. > > It might be hard to get a seperate grant for mapping. But its real easy to > add a line item to an existing application. If I were you, I'd be putting > togeather the "deluxe" package for WISPs to include in their applications, > and it doesn't have to be "cheaper". > > Tom DeReggi > RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc > IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian Webster" <bwebs...@wirelessmapping.com> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:09 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] NTIA mapping > > >> Amen Rick!!!! >> >> I've always maintained the thought that the 350 Million was another back >> door political payback to the Telco and cable companies via Connected >> Nation. With the fact that this funding gets put out there and then the >> data >> never really becomes available because of the NDA's signed, it just smells >> like a pork barrel project to me. Your explanation just backs up that >> idea. >> >> If you want to map broadband, go to a small organization like myself. We >> can >> do the work for tenths of a penny on the dollar these guys are quoting. >> You >> just build that cost in to the rest of your stimulus project and move on. >> Trying to take on Connected Nation is a losing battle. Just step around >> them >> and move forward......there are plenty of ways to map the competitive >> broadband in a market without proprietary data and you can successfully do >> it to convince the organizations that are handing out money. >> >> >> >> Thank You, >> Brian Webster >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org]on >> Behalf Of Rick Harnish >> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:23 PM >> To: ccoo...@intelliwave.com; 'WISPA General List' >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] NTIA mapping >> >> >> Chris, >> >> It is my understanding that this bill was specifically written for >> Connected >> Nation. In a conversation today in Indianapolis I was told that if you >> divide $350 million by 50 states you get $7,000,000 per state. This is >> approximately 80% of the $9,000,000 contract they recently signed with >> Ohio >> or Tennessee. The 80% number coincidentally matches up with the current >> thinking on the Broadband Stimulus Grants with 20% coming from the >> awardees >> and 80% coming from the Federal Government. If this assumption is >> correct, >> it didn't take Connected Nation long to come up with a number to present >> to >> the legislators that sponsored the bill. >> >> I'm not saying that this funding won't be allocated to other grantees but >> I >> have been told that it will be extremely difficult to buck this >> legislation >> given the current political clout that Connected Nation seems to have. >> That >> is not to say that the states themselves will get control of the funding >> and >> will make those decisions separately. >> >> Respectfully, >> Rick Harnish >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >> Behalf Of chris cooper >> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:01 AM >> To: 'WISPA General List' >> Subject: [WISPA] NTIA mapping >> >> There is a $350 million mapping component set aside under BTOP. Will >> this funding be available in smaller chunks to successful grantees to >> map their expanded networks? Will it be available to all wisps to map >> their existing networks in an effort to add to the overall national BB >> map? >> >> >> >> Chris Cooper >> >> Intelliwave >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> 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/ >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 8.5.287 / Virus Database: 270.12.4/2082 - Release Date: 04/27/09 >> 06:19:00 >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> WISPA Wants You! 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