Re: [AFMUG] Quick Poll: 477 Deployment Report

Fri, 19 Sep 2014 14:05:17 -0700

Um yeah agreed. I have 13,000 census blocks in my submission. Not hand filtering that. I take solace in the fact that in the rural areas we're concerned about getting CAF funding Time Warner's reported coverage is more egregiously wrong than mine. :) 


I filed with A, but now have data in hand for B.   My RF coverage 
(based on radiomobile) has 4X as many blocks as I reported with A.   I 
could still go back and amend the report.



I would love to go hand-groom the list... but over 6800 blocks is a 
bit much unless I can do it visually.




On 9/19/2014 2:45 PM, Cameron Crum via Af wrote:

Line of sight viewsheds (which consider clutter) might be your better 
choice then instead of coverage maps. At least you know with LOS that 
you have a greater chance of providing service than with coverage 
maps as they tend to be rather subjective depending on what you 
consider acceptable "coverage" signal. I looked at both "subscriber 
only" blocks and blocks with simple "reasonable" radius from a tower 
for a couple of our wisps. The difference was significant. Since it 
could potentially mean that my customers get their networks overbuilt 
with fed money, I tend to lean towards the radius or "coverage plot" 
method which produces more blocks.



On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Ken Hohhof via Af <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:


    Reluctantly B.  The devil on one shoulder is still telling me A.
    Actually, I am starting from A and manually approving every
    addition from B.  It’s a lot of work and I probably won’t do it
    every 6 months, but I’m asking in each case am I sure that I
    could reach at least part of that census block, and if so, why
    don’t I have any customers there yet?  I am more inclined to go
    with RF coverage in new areas I’ve just built into.  If I’ve been
    there 10 years and don’t have any customers in that block, maybe
    I can’t cover it.  In some cases I find there are zero buildings
    in the block, so if Frontier wants to get CAF money to provide
    service there, more power to them.
    I am probably being paranoid, but if I ever get challenged on
    this, I want to have my ducks in a row.  Also I want to figure
    out a way, even if I pay Brian or something, to turn this into a
    coverage map and/or Google Earth overlay and use that as our
    coverage map instead of RF coverage plots which I find lacking.

    For some WISPs, this might be a good sales/marketing exercise. 
    What are all the blocks where we have RF coverage but zero

    customers?  Why no customers?  Nobody lives there?  Competitor
    outguns me there?  Or just no word-of-mouth.  If so, maybe need
    to send some postcards or knock on doors.
    It should be possible to pull census statistics for each block to
    see how many housing units and people the gov’t thinks are in
    that block.  If there are 10 houses and 30 people in a block and
    none of them are my customers, why not?
    *From:* Randy Cosby via Af <mailto:[email protected]>
    *Sent:* Friday, September 19, 2014 3:23 PM
    *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
    *Subject:* [AFMUG] Quick Poll: 477 Deployment Report
    I'm curious how everyone is recording on their deployment report.

    A: I am reporting every census block where I have a customer
    B: I am reporting every census block that I can cover based on my
    RF coverage maps
    C: Not yet decided





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