We are asking our membership to take the Press Release and redistribute it to your own media outlets in your home areas. The last thing you want to see is a story in your media quoting the likes of Comcast or Verizon instead of you serving as the expert in the field for these issues. We also encourage you to post on your websites and/or communicate to your customers the need for them to contact their local representatives to make sure you are protected from this blatant attempt to over regulate you and this industry.
Feel free to change the contact information to your own on the release if you wish and if you receive a call for an interview from your media please let us know, send us a link after the story is written and if you need help you can email myself, Alex Phillips or Elizabeth Bowles for quotes that may be more customized for your own needs within the outline of WISPA views. Remember if the media calls they have a very short window for reply before they move on to another source.
Here is the release and attached is our FCC filing for more background. We appreciate your help in achieving WISPA's goals to make your business secure and manageable.
Thank you, Forbes Mercy Promotion Committee Chair [email protected] http://www.wispa.org/news/2014/11/11/wispa-opposes-reclassification-of-consumer-broadband-service *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* *November 11, 2014* ** *WISPA Opposes Reclassification of Consumer Broadband Service* */Title II regulation could hinder rural broadband development/* ***Ossian, IN (November 11, 2014) *-- The Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA), a membership organization that promotes the development, advancement and unity of the fixed wireless Internet service provider industry, believes that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should not reclassify consumer broadband service as a utility under Title II of the Communications Act. WISPA supports a free and open Internet without subjecting small businesses to an outdated regulatory model.
Common carrier regulation of the Internet would place undue harm on small Internet Service Provider (ISP) businesses that, without the benefit of federal subsidies, would not have been able to economically and rapidly extend broadband service to areas that currently have it today. Title II would increase compliance costs, increase regulatory risks and deter investments for small ISPs, contrary to the Congress' intent when it adopted Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act in 1996.
"The FCC got it right in 2010 with its light-touch regulatory approach. To impose Title II burdens and additional obligations on small ISPs would undermine the innovation, entrepreneurship and economic benefits that this environment has helped promote," said Chuck Hogg, President of WISPA. "Picking and choosing those Title II regulations that will be subject to forbearance would add to the uncertain regulatory environment over the course of many years. This would stifle investment that would inhibit our members' ability to connect rural Americans."
*About WISPA*WISPA (Wireless Internet Service Provider Association) is a membership-driven trade association that promotes the development, advancement and unity of the fixed Wireless Internet Service Provider industry. WISPA has over 800 members that support WISPA's advocacy, education and other collaborative industry initiatives. For more information, visit www.wispa.org <http://www.wispa.org>.
### FCC Inquiries: Alex Phillips [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Tel: 540.908.3993 Legislative Inquiries: Elizabeth Bowles [email protected] Tel: 501.374.4638 Media Inquiries: Suzanne Urash CRE8 Group, Inc. [email protected] Tel: 813.649.8504
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