I would like to personally thank the Board of WISPA for the effort, concern and passion displayed this week in St Louis at the Regional WISPA show. The team has increased membership and taken this industry to a whole new level with this successful conference. I believe we took another positive step forward by naming Rick Harnish as the Executive Director of WISPA. We all have a lot of confidence in Rick and his ability to organize and move this organization forward in a professional manner. For us to get the attention that we deserve in Washington DC, we need to continue to move forward with a single message with a professional approach and having someone focused full time, I believe we can achieve our goals as an industry. I appreciate what Rick has done for this group since its inception and look forward to where we will go in the future.
I remember back to 2003 when John Scrivner, Matt Larsen, Marlon Schaffer, Rich Harnish and Mac Dearman began discussing organizing a group that would truly represent the WISP ownership instead of being vendor driven. The leadership of this group, and many others still involved in WISPA, has taken this industry into the light of the FCC and is now leading the vendors to create the radios, management software and new product development that is needed for WISPA to compete. Congratulations to each and every WISP group out there today serving customers with the much needed broadband services. I understand that we have broken the 400 + mark in WISPA membership and impressed FCC Director Julius Knapp with the attendance at this conference. If you are a WISP and have NOT joined WISPA yet, now is the time to do so. We need everyone in this industry to be actively involved so that we can continue attract the attention in Washington DC that is needed. We could not be where we are today without the leadership and legal counsel of Steve Coran. Steve continues to represent us well and has brought attention to our industry. It is so nice to have legal counsel that "gets it" and understands our industry so well. Because of Steve, I will curb all of my "lawyer jokes" and change them to only "politician jokes"! :) There are so many others that need to be recognized for their tireless work and dedication such as Jack Unger, Doug Karl, Brian Webster, Dave Giles, Charles Wu, Victoria Proffer, Jim Patient, Michael Delp, Dennis Burgess, Butch Evans and WAY too many more to mention. (I always hate to start putting names into an email because I am SURE that I have left some very important people out.) Please forgive me for not putting your name in this email. This is a time for our industry to sit around the campfire and join Matt Larsen in a rousing chorus of "Kum-by-yah" (with his words of course). This is the time to join together and recognize where we have been and look to the future of where we are going. We have some new faces running for the WISPA board and that is VERY encouraging to see people volunteering to lead our group. Don't forget to take time to vote this week if you haven't already. Here is the link one more time: http://vote.wispa.org/ I don't post very often and I know that I have rambled on long enough. Thanks again to the WISPA Board for putting this event together and if you didn't come, you missed a GREAT opportunity. I hope to see you all again in November in Dallas, Texas!! Regards, David Weddell VP Business Development & Corporate Partnerships Omnicity, Inc. www.omnicity.net OTCMarkets: OMCY 866 586 1518 Corporate Office 765 499 7310 Cell [cid:image001.jpg@01CB2BF3.D94DE840] This electronic mail communication is intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information which is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and delete the original. Thank you.
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