Re: [WISPA] WISP Insurance

2012-02-01 Thread Marco Coelho
We use the Hartford. They have been pretty good for the last few years. On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Darin Steffl dcsho...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, What companies do you guys get your insurance through and what kind of policy/coverage do you have? Also, what do you pay a year for

Re: [WISPA] WISP Insurance

2012-02-01 Thread Mike Hammett
I am with The Hartford with their Spectrum something policy and workman's comp. I pay about $1500/year. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com On 1/31/2012 11:26 AM, Darin Steffl wrote: Hey guys, What companies do you guys get your insurance through and

Re: [WISPA] Ericsson is buying BelAir, betting on Wi-Fi

2012-02-01 Thread Tom DeReggi
Agreed. But I question the reasons, because there are more than one factor leading their interest. Some of it is vendor pressure. Some of it Egos sore from past failed attempts. For example, the big Cable Cos were major investors in Clearwire (and maybe other WImax alliances), and had to pull

Re: [WISPA] Ericsson is buying BelAir, betting on Wi-Fi

2012-02-01 Thread Mike Hammett
It's the cable co's fault they never got anything out of the different cellular ventures... they just didn't market it. Cometa who? :-) Clearwire isn't going anywhere. Earthlink has established quite the fiber and CLEC footprint. They'll get a much better ROI on WIFI than expanding cable's

Re: [WISPA] Ericsson is buying BelAir, betting on Wi-Fi

2012-02-01 Thread Tom DeReggi
Earthlink has established quite the fiber and CLEC footprint. Thats an interesting topic Really? So they aren't primarilly still just marketing and reselling off other CLEC's infrastructure, like they used to? I'm aware of the Atlanta project, where Earthlink was gonna do Fiber and CLEC

Re: [WISPA] Ericsson is buying BelAir, betting on Wi-Fi

2012-02-01 Thread Fred Goldstein
At 2/1/2012 12:28 PM, Tom DeReggi wrote: Earthlink has established quite the fiber and CLEC footprint. Thats an interesting topic Really? So they aren't primarilly still just marketing and reselling off other CLEC's infrastructure, like they used to? I'm aware of the Atlanta project,

Re: [WISPA] WISP Insurance

2012-02-01 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509-982-2181)
We cover our tower sites, office, work on the house etc. Costs me around $4k per year. We have a bit over 800 subs and nearly 8000 square miles of coverage. marlon - Original Message - From: Darin Steffl To: wireless@wispa.org Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 9:26 AM

Re: [WISPA] Rime Ice?

2012-02-01 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509-982-2181)
Pam works great. Just have her run up and sweep them off from time to time! roflol OK, just kidding. Pam cooking spray does a good job of keeping anything from building up and sticking to the antenna. marlon - Original Message - From: Bret Clark To: WISPA General List

Re: [WISPA] Ericsson is buying BelAir, betting on Wi-Fi

2012-02-01 Thread Tom DeReggi
That makes sense. Well stated Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Fred Goldstein To: WISPA General List Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 1:08 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Ericsson is buying BelAir, betting on Wi-Fi