Here are some web sites to check out: Connected Nation Projects: http://www.connectky.com/ http://connectohio.org/ http://www.connectmn.org/mapping/ http://www.connectedtn.org/broadband_landscape/ http://connectwestvirginia.org/mapping_and_research/state_maps.php
http://www.publicknowledge.org/ - This group has been very critical of Connected Nation and there have been exchanges between the parties on other wed sites. Connected Nation's responses are interesting reading. Couple that with the membership of Connected Nation's Board of Directors and you can draw your own conclusions. Enter Connected Nation in the search bar to bring up many articles. http://benton.org/node/15506#comment-28 - Here are comments by Connected Nation in rebuttal to PublicKnowledge.org. While it seems these two groups are in a pretty good fight against each other, I tend to read through the emotions and look directly at the facts. Connected Nation's response still will not explore mapping options so that they can release the data. They just defend their position that the data must be kept under NDA. http://www.connectednation.org/who_we_are/national_advisors/ This the list of the companies who make up Connected Nation's Board of Directors. My fear is that of the money set aside for broadband mapping, politics will get in the way and Connected Nation will get much if not all of the funds based on their political connections. Connected Nation has a lot of momentum inside the beltway. I have personally developed methods to where broadband mapping can be done on a Nationwide Basis using data that does not require any NDA. I need to spend some time to verify the process so that it would survive scientific scrutiny. All of the data is based on information already in the public domain. Connected Nation could have done this same work. I don't think they want to. With the think tank of people and skills they have at their disposal, I find it hard to believe I am the only one who could have figured out how to do this...... Thank You, Brian Webster -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
