Re: [WISPA] New WISPA Member - Steve Barnes with RCWiFi WirelessInternet Service
Outstanding! Welcome Steve! Jeff ImageStream -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Scrivner Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 5:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wireless@wispa.org Subject: [WISPA] New WISPA Member - Steve Barnes with RCWiFi WirelessInternet Service We have seen many WISPs in Indiana join our ranks in the last two years. We certainly appreciate all the support of the WISPs in that region. We have a new WISP Principal Member with us now from Indiana. RCWiFi Wireless Internet Services is represented here by Executive Manager - Steve Barnes. We welcome you, Steve, and hope our mutual work together through WISPA can help us all to be better WISP operators. Here is a little information about Steve and RCWiFi: RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service for Randolph County Indiana. We service most of Randolph County and is in process to expand to the whole county. RC-WiFi started from an agreement between Steve Barnes of PCS-WIN, a computer sales and service company in Winchester Indiana and Rick Harnish of Supernova in Bluffton Indiana to provide better service and internet availability for Randolph County in July 2006. Since that time RC-WiFi has received a grant from the local county government to expand the network and grow from 2 towers with 20 clients to 9 towers with over 200 clients. RC-WiFi continues to work closely with Supernova as they supply our Network Engineering, Backhaul, and authentication service. Our goal is to work as close as possible with other WISPS in neighboring counties to improve services to our residence and refer those we can not service. Steve Barnes Executive Manager PCS-WIN RCWiFi Wireless Internet Service (765)584-2288 WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] New WISPA Member - Ted Olson of OACYS Technology
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 Would you like to see your advertisement here? Let the WISPA Board know your feelings about allowing advertisements on the free WISPA lists. The current Board is taking this under consideration at this
RE: [WISPA] New WISPA Member
HIP HIP HOORAY! Welcome to WISPA Michael and crew. I look for great things to take place due to OUR industry organization. of the WISPs, by the WISPS, for the WISP Mac Dearman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Scrivner Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 2:28 PM To: wireless@wispa.org Subject: [WISPA] New WISPA Member I would like to introduce all of you to Ross Cornett of Hofnet Communications, Inc.. They are WISPA's newest Principle Member. I have known Ross for a number of years and I am glad to see him make the step up to membership in WISPA. Here is some information about Hofnet Communications, Inc.: Hofnet Communications, Inc. Owners: Ross Cornett Michael Hoffman We are located in Effingham Illinois and have been in business as HofNet since November of 2005. We have grown our network to stretch north to Shelbyville IL, south to Kinmundy IL, West to Altamont IL and East to Dieterich IL. We are building infrastructure to handle VOIP, Video, and Internet to the rural communities. We currently offer 2.4 Ghz, 900 Mhz, and 5.8 Ghz services. We have dialup services also. We supply Internet services to over 15 cities -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] New WISPA Member - Gino Villarini of Aeronet Wireless Broadband
Welcome aboard. John Scrivner wrote: Please help me welcome Gino Villarini as a new Principle WISPA Member. He has been part of our group on the public wireless@wispa.org list for sometime and has decided to make his alliance with WISPA official. We thank you for that step, Gino. Any industry needs a good trade association to represent the interests of its members and WISPA is that trade group for the WISP industry. There is power in numbers and each of you make WISPA that much stronger when you make your membership official. Here is some information about Gino and his company Aeronet Wireless Broadband: Aeronet Wireless Broadband started in 2002 as an endeavor to provide Business Class IP services to the local Small, Medium and Large Businesses in San Juan, PR. Utilizing a 95% Motorola Canopy Network, as of 2006, we are covering 80% of the Business Centric Areas trough our 45 POPS in Puerto Rico. Current offerings include Broadband Internet, VLAN WAN and VOIP. We are support all WISP centric efforts, thus we have joined WISPA to help grow the Industry Gino A. Villarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. tel 787.273.4143 fax 787.273.4145 -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
