Greetings WISPA Members,WISPA has prepared a letter welcoming your newly elected or re-elected member of the House of Representatives to Congress. We feel there was enough new members to justify a letter such as this in addition all house members were up this year. Senators stagger their election year but if you have a newly elected Senator please make the appropriate changes in title and send it to them. We chose this week as they are just moving into new offices and gaining the technical staff to properly route your letter.
We feel this is a great way to make sure your company is in front of Congress on a local level and helps to make you the local constituent expert and contact when they consider legislation that affects our industry. Make sure to put this on your company letterhead filling in the blanks and signing it. You can send by postal mail or it may be more efficient to send a PDF copy of your signed letter by email.
If you are ever contacted by a member of Congress please feel free to contact myself or Rick so you may give an answer that covers every interest of WISPA in addition to your local needs. Thank you for taking the brief time it will take to send this out and helping your industry.
Forbes Mercy WISPA VP/Legislative Chair Dear Congressman/Congresswoman _______:Congratulations on your recent [election/re-election] to the United States Congress.As a small business owner in your [district/state], I look forward to working with you on issues that will benefit your constituents.
My company provides fixed wireless broadband services to residences and businesses, mostly in rural areas where other broadband access technologies (like cable and DSL) are not available.In other areas, we compete with those services by providing local customer service and offer consumers a choice for broadband services.All of our employees live in the State of _____.We primarily use unlicensed spectrum and are regulated by the FCC, and unlike many telephone companies, we receive no subsidies from the federal government.Rather, we rely on private financing and cost-efficient technology to deliver broadband services in areas where large corporate providers have failed to deliver the promised service.
As you serve our district in the upcoming session, I ask you to keep the following thoughts in mind:
1) Ensure thatthe FCC balances the benefits of unlicensed spectrum (which removes significant barriers to entry) and licensed spectrum (which generates auction dollars).Unlicensed spectrum benefits the economy with technology that enables small businesses to flourish and innovation to thrive.
2) Ensure thatprograms like the Universal Service Fund do not use Federal money to subsidize areas that are already being served by fixed broadband providers such as my company.
3) Ensure that the privacy of our customers is not compromised with well-meaning law enforcement legislation that places excessive obligations on Internet service providers.
I would be pleased to serve as a resource to you as questions about broadband service arise.To that end, please feel free to pass on my contact information to your Technology Advisor.I would appreciate your keeping my company in mind as a resource whenever you are asked about, seek to learn about, or look to consider legislation concerning spectrum, universal service and the Internet.
I understand that you must consider many factors in the bigger picture of governing our country and wish you well.I invite you to allow my small business background to aid in those decisions and to allow the Internet to prosper not only in this country but in your own [district/state].
Thank you, Name/Title/Contact info
Welcome to Congress Letter 2013.docx
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