At 6/29/2012 08:45 PM, Victoria Proffer wrote:
...
In my years in this industry, it is clear that some fail, as well as
some become a sterling example of what I consider my industry is
primarily made of, girt, fortitude, honesty, common sense, gumption,
imaginativeness (check it out, it is a word =), resourcefulness ...
oh well, you get the picture =)
With that said, I have to make my comment.
It is one as an individual and not necessarily representing the
views of the board of directors.
The Century Link FCC filing is a direct attack on our industry and
what our, sometimes small, enterprises stand for.
The Century Link filing, in my opinion and it has been mentioned, a
clear sign of weakness on their part and shows their dependency on
.gov subsidies. In this aspect is a victory for WISPA!
Yet it is slanderous document that WISPA and the individuals accused
must refute.
As an elected member of the WISPA board of directors, I can assure
you that the board is addressing these issues and considers this a priority.
For those who may have missed it, the petition is here:
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7021978603
Century Telephone Enterprises, by whatever name it's using, has
always been the worst of the worst. My nickname for them is "The
Devil Incarnate". These are the folks who, facing a modem pool owned
by a tiny carrier during the dial-up years, simply refused to pass
calls to that carrier as "local", even though the rate center was
local. Utterly sleazy.
Their petition is indeed slanderous, basically claiming that WISPs
can't offer as good a service as they can, and demanding that the FCC
treat all WISPs like satellite providers. This would let CenturyLink
take Phase I CAF funding of $775/subscriber to overbuild WISPs.
To show how ridiculous this is, just turn it around. What could you,
as a WISP, do with a gift of $775 in capital per subscriber? Yeah, a
lot more than they can. That's a lot of money to a WISP, but bupkis
to a subsidy whore like Century.
I look forward to the Board's response, and if the Petition is open
to Comment from others, it deserves a serious blasting.
--
Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com
ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/
+1 617 795 2701
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