I took a little time to scan the report, and have a couple of
observations...
1. The FCC is expending great efforts at marginally effective ideas.
2. A lot of attention was paid to middle mile and rural deployments, but
missed the largest single issue, at least as it applies out west - that
public land is inaccessible. Every mountain in rural Oregon, the places
you'd need to put repeaters or infrastructure to create that cost effective
transport, is publicly owned, and both state and federal are financially and
otherwise inaccessible. Much was made of travel concerns, and while
valid, they're not half the obstruction that regulations, cost, and flat out
prohibitions are.We could get there on 4 wheelers, horses, or
snowmobiles if need be. What we can't do, is use the locations needed. I
know this extremely well, as I've been stymied for 2 years trying to reach a
major chunk of unserved population.
3. The obstructions that individual WISP's face, at least, probably vary as
much as there are individual WISP's, or at least WISP's attempting to serve
each specific market.Much of the efforts made these days on behalf of
WISP's seem to target a narrow demographic, the large metropolitan model.
This works at cross purposes, or at least, without effect, at promoting
rural broadband development.
I dunno about you, but after reading the document for a relatively short
period of time, my eyes tend to glaze over and attention wanders. Is it
ADD or these kinds of things just... boring? :)
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- Original Message -
From: Ron Harden rhar...@voxcorp.net
To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 10:55 AM
Subject: [WISPA] FW: FCC Rural Broadband report
FYI...Ron
-Original Message-
From: Karen Reidy [mailto:kre...@comptel.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 1:36 PM
To: Karen Reidy
Subject: FCC Rural Broadband report
Dear Members: Below is the link to the FCC's Rural Broadband Strategy
Report that was released today.
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-291012A1.pdf
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