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From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
Behalf Of RickG
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 2:27 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] [Motorola II] Broadband work with Indian Reservation
I can identify!
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Fred Goldstein <fgoldst...@ionary.com>
wrote:
At 8/14/2010 02:35 AM, RickG wrote:
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on who you were) that same outcome
has not happened for other races in similar situations in mankind's past
history. Maybe there wasn't enough lawyers back in the ancient days? So, in
the modern era, it's no longer "only the strong survive" but rather, only
the best lawyer survives?
I made a one-paragraph quip in response to another, and the thread went off
kilter, so I'm avoiding those side issues now like the plague...
No matter, it would be interesting to be involved with a tribal roll out of
a high end network.
Indeed. The first time I used RadioMobile was several years ago, when the
local (Indian) ISP from a tribe in the plains region inquired about putting
up a wireless network across the reservation. The total population density
was about one person per square mile, with a couple of small towns. Most of
the reservation's phone service, mainly the biggest town, came from an
off-reservation coop and the Indians didn't like them. So we talked about
building a WISP network with a CLEC to deliver wireless local loop. The
reservation was basically flat with not many trees, ideal wireless country.
SkyPilot boxes would have given a 10-mile radius between hops. He would own
it; I would be his consultant.
But then he stopped returning calls. Another tribe's telco had won 700 MHz
licenses in the first (2002) auction, and was doing wireless DOCSIS, and had
this guy's reservation in their footprint. So they became the WISP. I
assume it's working, since the FCC web site last year showed them inquiring
if they would meet the build-out deadline, or lose the license, and they
said that they had it up and running on time.
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Fred Goldstein <fgoldst...@ionary.com>
wrote:
At 8/13/2010 04:15 PM, lakeland wrote:
>Hmmmmm. How do you become a soverign nation?
Well, you start by having a big country. Then you get invaded and
settled by people with better weapons, and diseases that wipe out 90%
of your population. Then wars are fought which kill more of them and
take away more land, settled with treaties supposedly guaranteeing
them sovereignty on at least limited land. Then the survivors are
forced off their land, at least all of the good land, into deserts
and small reservations, where they're mistreated for another
century. Finally they get good lawyers and lobbyists and open casinos.
>Sounds like its a lot better than being a WISP or an Integrator. :-)
When you add it all up, I don't really think so. :-(
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ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/
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