Typical, how many can believe that these guys pushing this: ">The plan would involve the FCC buying spectrum back from TV folk and >then auctioning it off to wireless folk" make at least a $100,000 clear a >year?" Plus the lobbyist and what they make? We pay their salaries as American >citizens! Most of the lobbyist are employed by the duopolies such as Verizon >and Comcast! They want it auctioned off, because us small providers can not >afford to compete against them!
It is time for WISPA, and the American people to understand this. It is up to us as individual providers to educate the simple minded people in our areas to protest this! I could be wrong, but I think WISPA could not afford to do this nationwide. I am not yet a WISPA supporter, but have thought about it many times...I have been burned before by joining another WISP group and have no desire to do that again with the promises that never came. I am not saying that I will not join WISPA. I am, although, an American entrepreneur. I, as many have you chose to play in an arena that the telecom and cable companies have a slightly unfair advantage to us in that arena when it comes to FCC decisions. It does not matter how many FCC rulings that you look up, we as WISP are always the underdog. And as this post suggest, we are still the underdogs. We had a chance with "white spaces" and we get the "money backed big dogs" against us. The American people vote these guys or girls in that support us or are against us. It is time we educate our customer base. Scottie ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: John Vogel <jvo...@vogent.net> Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:49:42 -0500 >I found this interesting. > > ><http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/28/fcc_mulls_tv_spectrum_auction_for_broadband/> > >"The US Federal Communications Commission is considering a plan that >would reclaim some precious airwaves from the country's television >broadcasters and reinvent them as wireless broadband. > >According to the /Wall Street Journal/ ><http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703574604574499730302393274.html>, >the FCC intends to release the plan on Friday as part of an effort to >ensure that there's enough wireless bandwidth for the America [/sic/] of >the future. "The record is very clear that we're facing a looming >spectrum gap," said Blair Levin, who oversees the plan, part of a wider >push to expand US broadband. > >The plan would involve the FCC buying spectrum back from TV folk and >then auctioning it off to wireless folk. > >The FCC has already opened up the television "white spaces" as >unlicensed spectrum, hoping to create a kind of "WiFi on steroids ><http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/13/big_four_tv_networks_attack_google_microsoft_wireless_proposal/>." >But the new plan creates vast swathes of licensed wireless broadband, >providing more bandwidth for the likes of AT&T and Verizon." > > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >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/ >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > Wireless High Speed Broadband service from Info-Ed, Inc. as low as $30.00/mth. Check out www.info-ed.com/wireless.html for information. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
