I apologize, but WT% !?!? What and where is the documentation about this change to USF, the plan to put WISP's out of business once and for all. Who in their right mind would be in or start a WISP, when it's crazy enough already ?
May as well fine Gilbert for calling Lebron James names when he left Cleveland. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Fred Goldstein <fgoldst...@ionary.com> Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:41:07 -0400 >At 7/13/2010 12:31 AM, Chuck Hogg wrote: >>That's a double edged sword... You don't pay into USF currently as >>WISP's are not classified as such. Then if we are, we'd have a hard >>time at it, but we'd be eligible for those funds. > >Try again, Chuck. > >The pending FCC proposal is a bit worse, where "bit" is roughly the >size of the Grand Canyon. It basically says that USF taxation, now >at 15%, will be extended to ISPs. BUT it also says that eligibility >to collect USF will be limited to one company in a given geographic >area, rather than the competitive situation now allowed. This is how >they will control costs, without limiting how much an ILEC can >get. (It is almost literally a blank check. I have an article about >this on my web site and TMCnet column.) So if you are not the ILEC, >you can't become Eligible. But you may still be taxed in order to pay >the (Eligible) ILEC to operate as an ISP, without its offering even >common carrier DSL (which they have to today in order to be >Eligible). They in turn will be subsidized to the extent required to >make their prices as low as urban rates. In other words, you are >taxed to pay them to compete with you. > >I am finishing up editing my Comment in the current FCC Broadband >Internet NOI. My comment on USF, which I won't actually include in >the final submission, is that their treatment of WISPs is tantamount >to the Chinese policy of billing the families of executed prisoners >for the bullet. > > > -- > Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com > ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ > +1 617 795 2701 > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >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/ > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at avolve.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
