Realistically, you can't block the application if you can reach less than 50% of the households in an area. Plus they are probably applying for funds to cover an area larger than (or at least not completely coincident with) yours, which would likely make a successful challenge improbable at best.
However, BTOP requires that they offer interconnection, and strongly encouages them to offer a real wholesale arrangement. It might be worth your time to approach them about it. Chuck Sent from my iPhone On Sep 15, 2009, at 8:49 AM, "L. Aaron Kaplan" <aa...@lo-res.org> wrote: > > On Sep 15, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Steve Barnes wrote: > >> Digital Bridge has asked for money for Underserved for the county >> that I service, the whole county. >> Questions: >> 1. Since I am the only WISP in the Rural areas of my county and my >> standard is 1024/256 with 2.4 and there is 50% of the clients that I >> cant get due to trees. I assume that that will be seen as >> Underserved. Is there anything that I can do to get this blocked? > > Just a quit though - correct me if I am wrong, but... > > Isnt blocking competition very un-American somehow? > Is "blocking" even possible? > > I hope you also applied for getting thru the trees, no? > > >> 2. Now it appears that they asked for money for all the Census >> blocks in the county. ALL the cities have My service, DSL, and >> Cable. How can that be labeled as Underserved. If we get one Block >> rejected does that stop the one request which would be all my area? > > --- > there's no place like 127.0.0.1, except maybe ::1 (someday) > > (üäö) > > > > --- > --- > --- > --- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
