Hi Ted, Noticed your company based in PORTERVILLE. I
am originally from the Reedley/Sanger area and my
family had a resturant and men's clothing store in
Porterville long time ago (Figueroa's). One of my
other friend's is deploying wireless in Orange Cove. I
also work with Integrity Networks in Fresno. Do you
know them? http://www.integritynet.com/
Did Clearwire ever deploy their network in Visalia?
Best Regards,
Felix
Fellow Central Valleyite.
--- John Scrivner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please join me in welcoming Ted Olson of OACYS
Technology as WISPA's
newest Principal Member. Here is a little about Ted
and his company:
OACYS (pronounced as in oasis) turned 25 this
year, I founded it in
1982 after many years as a military and commercial
helicopter pilot.
There's no connection, except for maybe an odd sense
of adventure and a
certain lack of good sense. We worked from CP/M to
DOS and Windows and
networks and software development, then in 1995
bought some bandwidth
and a case of modems and became an ISP, the first in
our semi-rural
community of about 30K then (now 50K).
In the late 90s we tangled with PacBell over the
privilege of reselling
their DSL. We're a charter member of CISPA and spent
quite a bit of
money on that battle, until I got fed up and decided
that anything
further in that direction was going to be a very
bumpy road that would
eventually turn into a dead-end.
We're pretty independent sorts so we took a deep
breath, white-boarded a
new game plan, and turned exclusively to wireless.
Never looked back.
Karlnet stuff first, now mostly Trango in all the
usual unlicensed bands.
I was chairman of CISPA's first wireless committee,
but got way too busy
with our own business to have enough time to do that
justice so I passed
the baton. We're still members, but with only a few
(and far between)
wireless exceptions that group is still fighting the
DSL battle so we
don't really participate any more. I just posted a
reference to WISPA in
reply to a couple of enquiries on their list about
700 MHz, maybe you'll
pick up another new member or two.
We cover around 2,500 square miles of mostly rural
area at the base of
the Sierra Nevadas, and also up into several small
foothill and mountain
valleys that may never be served by DSL or cable.
Wouldn't matter to us
anyway, we own those markets now and our service is
so good we'd be very
hard to unseat.
We have a dozen employees averaging close to ten
years each, and around
2000 subs (60-40% residential and business). Our
only wireless
competition is Clearwire, but they're not affecting
our business (they
may be helping) and our growth is steady.
Our CLEC application is now going through the
approval process at CPUC.
We've started selling VoIP (Asterisk box) and now
need the advantages of
a CLEC, previously it wasn't worth the cost.
We've been aware of WISPA for a long time, but it
was a recent article
about CALEA that got us thinking we should probably
join. I've been
lurking in your mail list for a while, just to see
what's going on ...
we might be interested in supporting your 700 MHz
efforts. We've of
course been filing 477s for several years.
Unfortunately for us there are apparently enough
small cities elsewhere
in our county to disqualify our CMA (150) as being
rural. The extra 20%
would have been nice but it's not really a
deterrent, providing I can
get some idea of what a realistic bid might be from
our perspective. It
looks like the average award in Auction 66 went for
around $12 million,
which would be WAY out of our reach.
I'd like to know more about your previous experience
with FCC auctions.
That alone makes it worthwhile to join and help
support your committee
and lobbying efforts, is that still open at $1000?
Our time is limited
(just like yours), but we'll help as much as we can.
Cheers,
-Ted
Note to Ted and others from Scriv
I have extended the $1000 to join the 700 MHz
Committee for a bit
longer. I am guessing this deal will go away for
goos in a couple of
weeks though. If you are on the fence for getting
into the 70 MHz
efforts hen please join now by sending your check
for $1000 to:
WISPA
Attn: 700 MHz Committee
PO Box 1582
Mt. Vernon, IL. 62864
We appreciate your WISPA support whether you have an
interest in 700 MHz
or not. That goes for all of you out there who
support WISPA. A big
thank you to all. Back to you Ted.Scriv
Ted Olson
President and CEO
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
OACYS Technology
767 North Porter Road
Porterville, CA 93257
559.781.4123
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