At 6/29/2012 09:36 PM, Victoria Proffer wrote:
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For those who may have missed it, the petition is here:
<http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7021978603>http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7021978603
I am sorry if I don't get this right Fred, but I don't believe this
is the petition, rather than it is the complaint.
Is that correct?
It is their "Petition for Waiver". It is basically a complaint, but
since WISPs are not licensees, and the WISPs haven't actually done
anything wrong, they cannot file a real complaint against
them. Instead they are petitioning to have WISPs ignored in CAF Phase I.
However, it is accompanied by a number of Exhibits which deserve
attention too. To see it, go to the FCC's e-filing page, then ECFS,
and search for "CenturyLink" as the filer and "petition for waiver"
as the type. You'll see that this was filed in a whole bunch of Dockets.
They pulled a bunch of WISPs' coverage maps off of the NBM and
decided that they were "implausible". Now a few are sort of sloppy,
basically simple radii. CL claims that radio coverage never fits a
perfect circle due to terrain and they are close to correct
there. However, some WISP maps may simply stop at 10 miles even if
they can go farther. They also rule any WISP implausible if its
coverage area is more than 10 miles wide. They simply assume that a
WISP has exactly one tower, so any bigger coverage must be a lie! I
note that some of the maps look like they were generated by
RadioMobile. But they were fed into the state mapping entity as part
of the NBM project. The state maps in turn tend to be normalized to
census blocks or even larger areas. So the map is not identical to
the RadioMobile coverage prediction or for that matter any real
coverage. This is an artifact of the NBM, not the WISPs' own
doing. The map exaggerates CL's coverage too, the same way. DSL
touching a census block makes that whole block look covered.
And let me state on a side note ... your interjections in WISPA
business, in my opinion, is extremely valued!
There have been several times that you have broken a complex problem
down to common sense. Thank you.
Thank you!
Victoria Proffer
<http://www.stlwimax.com/>STLWiMAX, LLC
314-720-1000
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org]
On Behalf Of Fred Goldstein
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 8:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [WISPA] Happy Independence Day!
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>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.
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