ALL WISPS,
Please promote this petition vigorously between now and August 13th. In just 2 days we have gotten 290 supporters from around the country. I would love to come in Monday morning and see this in the thousands. Paste the following to your Facebook page, LinkedIn, or email it to your clients. Have them post it to. Let's take this viral. You have to be steadfast and aggressive, post it several times. Show your clients how important this is. Government Regulation Continues to Eliminate Small Businesses. It has to STOP! Support WISPA's Petition for Reconsideration. Share this on your Facebook page. http://www.wispa.org/save-rural-broadband-and-unlicensed-wireless-call-to-ac tion. Sign the petition to support WISPA's Petition for Reconsideration to reverse the FCC new rules and save Rural Broadband! Also, if you haven't written a letter to the FCC, the deadline is August 14th. Proceeding Number 13-49 Below are comments from the 290 people that have signed this petition. . I think you should reconsider this ruling based on the impact it would have to our industry. . I work from home and this is the only service that I can use. . I work from home and this is the only service that I can use. . I serve 5 county rural area, aprox 3000 cust, will turn off service to 1500 and fire 12 employees bad for me, cust & employees . We are a WISP and operate in a very rural and sparsely populated area. . In Bedford County Athena has made great strides in providing QUALITY service in an area that has had little or no service. . I am a rural broadband customer and I can only receive wireless internet. This law would make so I have NO internet at all. . Where I live we only have this one provider in our area. Without them I would have nothing! . please don't do allow this to happen to rural america . This is very bad for rural broadband . Where has our common sense gone? . Please reconsider FCC Proceeding 13-49. We need our internet! . please do not pass! . We rely on wireless as the only available high-speed Internet connection. . Working for a rural-focused ISP, I can see that the regulation has great potential for negative consequences. . As a local government we use fixed wireless in this band for high capacity long haul links and this would have a severe impact . give it a 2nd look....RECONSIDER . This is so unfortunate. I hope it gets overturned . Are they nuts? . As an employee and customer of a wireless ISP, I feel the FCC needs to reconsider this ruling! . stop this. government makes prices go up for no reason .stay out of this. making us pay more for no reason.so you all in Congress . I should not be punished by being forced to pay more or lose speed because I live in a rural area. . I can't do without DSL due to our rural area . Dsl by air is the only affordable option for me to have high speed broadband . Need DSL by Air for my rural area . This is the only service available in this rural area. It's already insufficient. . This will force me to give up my online classes and stop my continuing education endeavors. . Please reconsider proceeding 13-49, and save our access availability. . The government should stay out of this. . PLEASE, WE ARE OVERREGULATED ALREADY!!!! . Don't mess with: FREE T.V. . We finally have found an internet service that actually works- Please don't take it away. . We need the present service, unchanged . Great service . My provider is the best option I have and currently operates on the 5Ghz frequency. All other options are expensive/inconvenient . We need to keep high speed internet affordable and reliable to all end line users as well as for customers in hard to reach area . This is another example of Corporatism. (fascism) . I appreciate the opportunity to have a choice in Providers. A rule change such as this will force me to choose Comcast or AT&T . Please think about those who this will greatly affect . quit messing with something that works. . Cable services are not available at my location. Jeopardizing my Internet access would be a severe handicap to me. . As a WISP we are concerned about the adverse effects this would have on our existing 5Ghz systems . federal government needs to have limits set to what they can do . Let's not reduce anything regarding WISPs. We need to keep things the way they are and let them continue to grow. . This is just another bureaucratic overreach. It's BS. . Please reconsider the rule change in the 5725-5850 MHz band. This change will have terrible consequences for millions of people. . Please stop Government interference in rural America internet service . Please Reconsider this ruling. It is unfair to rural areas. . I have spent years getting broad band service to our business. This action appears to add significant costs to our customers. . We use the entire spectrum for Marcellus Shale clients . Nebraska based Internet Provider serving thousands of rural customers with this spectrum . Providing high speed and reliable broadband to rural America is our mission. Stop limiting our ability to fulfill our mission. . These rules will have a huge impact on existing point to point links. This rule needs to be reconsidered. . These rules will have a huge impact on existing point to point links. This rule needs to be reconsidered. . Is the FCC going to support broadband development or fight it? Actions speak louder than political platforms. . We now have the best internet service we have ever had. Please don't hamper their efforts to provide affordable quality service . Please don't hamper our WISP's. They are the only type of broadband available to us . this is about control and an effort against net neutrality. . Please do not change things where we *rural people* will lose our internet or it will cost more. Please do not over regulate. . gov doesn't need to control every aspect of our lives . I live in a rural area and my wireless connection is vital to me for work and personal use. . STOP MAKING REGULATIONS THAT HURT BUSINESSES AND CONSUMERS! The new FCC regulations regarding FCC Proceeding 13-49 are devastating. I work full time remote from my home. Please stop this. . We need our high speed internet for school & work in our rural area!! . Please reconsider this ruling. Obtaining broadband service in a rural area is already expensive and we have limited choices. . everything is higher in the country to begin with don't make internet higher than it already is . This is our only source of high speed internet. . I work from my home. I need my internet to survive financially. . Rural Americans struggle to find affordable and reliable internet already. Yet another business killing decision. . We do not have cable available and satellite goes out in bad weather. . Please reconsider your ruling as we are rural and need internet/broadband connection both for our business and our personal use. . leaving this ruling in place would be destructive for Wireless Internet Service Providers and it's customer, like myself.. . I cannot afford higher ISP prices. Why change something that works well. . Texas Cellnet has served our rural community well by providing good service at a reasonable price. . This ruling will devastate many rural providers and those they service. Please reverse this ruling and protect my ISP. . [email protected] . Not everyone lives in big cities. People in a Rural areas deserve high-speed internet too! Please don't mess with it. Thank y . Please reconsider this rule. We need fast reliable internet in the rural area. . We cannot afford to get increased prices for Rural America . keep the government out they will screw up everything look at their track record . Do not penalize rural subscribers who choose to live in the country!!!! . Stop stepping on small business, we are the foundation of this great country! . I am a work at home and had to install a tower just to get internet in my rural area. This change would put me out of a job! . FCC 47CFR Section 15.407 rules would ruin us after 10 years in rural East Texas. . This will cripple the company I work for, supplying over 1000 with Internet in rural East TX! . Reverse this silly ruling that will decimate small ISP's. . we feel the FCC's new ruling on wireless broadband would be a huge detriment to those of us who live in rural communities! . Please don't take away our rural internet! . no other service available from my location . Stop the abuse! . This ruling is asinine!!!!! PLEASE reconsider!! . Crippling the equipment on the 5.725 to 5.85 band will make it more difficult for Unwired to offer services to the underserved . The cost to rural farmers in SE Kansas would be too high and would present a lose, lose situation for customers and company. . Please support WISPS so that rural residents can get decent broadband . will send a more formal letter with a numbers but this would put our company out of business replacing our current 5.8ghz links . will send a more formal letter with a numbers but this would put our company out of business replacing our current 5.8ghz links . We cannot afford this to happen. . We cannot afford this to happen. . Please do not change! . I only have 1 option for internet service! Efforts should be made to increase affordable options, not decrease! . Wisper has been the best ISP I have ever had. . If this happens many people that live in rural areas won't have internet or it will be too costly. . Please save our speed!!!! . For some of us rural area families this is what we rely on for internet and our only choice, don't take it away. . High speed internet is not a luxury anymore. It is a necessity. Rural areas should have reliable access to the internet. . This is our only source of internet service, we waited years for the service... Government - please don't screw it up. . If we lose Wisper ISP, we have no other options. Please don't do this to us! . The importance of having unlimited high speed internet is very high in rural areas...especially to college students like me. . Please listen to the wisps. Living in the sticks is best with good internet. . please do not change the way and price of my internet. if it ain't broke, don't fix it. . FCC , . FCC , . We do all of our banking & Bill paying online. As a retired couple don't add to our bills. . Please don't take away my internet! . Another way for the government to shut down businesses. <http://www.wispapalooza.net/> Join us at WISPAPALOOZA 2014 in Las Vegas, Oct. 11th - 18th Respectfully, Rick Harnish Executive Director WISPA 260-622-5699 Cell 866-317-2851 Ext. 101 WISPA Office 260-622-5774 Direct Line Skype: rick.harnish. 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