Michael Erskine wrote:
The ILECs have been building the POTS network since 1900. They are
not incompetent and they understand how to buy power.
Actually, maybe not incompetent but entirely without vision and with an
eye only to quarterly numbers.
Your best recipe for retaining customers -
Smith, Rick wrote:
I can tell you for a fact that Embarq and Verizon have 700 Mhz
and FTTP on their radar BIG time.
It's that whole battle vs. war thing... They're willing to
get their heads handed to them 9 times because that 10th is
their nuke...
OK I've gotta throw away this devil's
Rumors of Embarq pulling fiber in NW NJ. I'm trying to figure this one
out,
since it's home for me :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Peter R.
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 7:48 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Google makes it
Just to throw another log on, here's the CTIA's approach:
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CTIA-The Wireless AssociationR President and
CEO Steve Largent issued the following statement today in response to a
letter from Google to the Federal Communications Commission asking for
special conditions in
In an article entitled Broadband Baloney in the Wall Street Journal today,
Robert McDowell, a Commissioner on the FCC stated:
Criticisms of our definition of broadband being too lax are already
irrelevant as over 50 million subscribers are in the 1.5 to 3.0
megabits-per-second fast lane.
That my
Thats the problem...most of the senate, congress, heck the whole government and
their appointees do not know the difference in a piece of twine with two cans
attached and a copper line with telephones attached, much less how the internet
works and the physics behind it.
They only know how to
Oh brother. Here we go again.
marlon
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From: Scottie Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 7:34 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Broadband Baloney? An FCC Commissioner's
takeonBroadband..
Thats the problem...most
Hi All,
I just completely rebuilt a tower site. It had inconsistent speeds and I'd
hit the point that I normally change things around.
When I hit 50 people to a tower I'll sectorize it.
On this tower I had an omni at about 25' (the hill is 700 feet over the
valley) and a 15dB integrated
The bad thing about Google's wholesale push is this:
We asked for bidding credits and CMA sized blocks in the upper and lower
700 MHz bands in the upcoming auction. If Google gets their way then the
upper blocks will NOT be CMA sized and will have wholesale requirements
attached. I can see
Look into some high Q cavity filters.
Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
Hi All,
I just completely rebuilt a tower site. It had inconsistent speeds
and I'd hit the point that I normally change things around.
When I hit 50 people to a tower I'll sectorize it.
On this tower I had an omni at about
Has anyone worked with these Powerstations? doesn't look like anything
strange or unfamiliar, except that it has every feature I can ever remember
wanting.
www.ubnt.com
Any comments good or bad?
Zack
Would you like
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From: John Scrivner
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Subject:
Re: [WISPA] Google makes it official -- putting up $4.6 billion
The bad thing about Google's wholesale push is this:
We
make sure the firmware is up to date
Zack Kneisley wrote:
Has anyone worked with these Powerstations? doesn't look like anything
strange or unfamiliar, except that it has every feature I can ever
remember
wanting.
www.ubnt.com
Any comments good or bad?
Zack
I'm not sure who isn't listening to whom, but I've said more than once that
Google is only bidding if the FCC sets up the auction requiring wholesale.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
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From: Travis Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
oh, and hardly any of the auctioned spectrum has or will in the short term
be used for broadband. It's used for cellular and other services.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
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From: Mike Hammett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WISPA
Wholesale to yourself. :-p
While not a great victory for us, any loss for the telcos is a victory for
us.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
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From: John Scrivner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
I've used various VNC programs over the years on 2000 and XP. Vista seems a
little different. What do you guys do to control those machines?
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
W.D.McKinney wrote:
If Google wins, the spectrum will be tied up for a long time with little on no
use right away.
I suspect most of Google's business plan here is get spectrum, lease
spectrum, earn lots of money with little actual work, and in that case
it's in their best interest to get
Mike Hammett wrote:
I've used various VNC programs over the years on 2000 and XP. Vista seems a
little different. What do you guys do to control those machines?
If it's Vista Business or Vista Ultimate, the built-in Remote Desktop
Connection service works just fine.
(Not sure about Vista
I'd imagine so in the Business and Ultimate versions. There are a pair of
Home Basic machines and Remote Desktop doesn't function like VNC in that I
can't share the desktop with a local user.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
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Mike Hammett wrote:
I'd imagine so in the Business and Ultimate versions. There are a pair
of Home Basic machines and Remote Desktop doesn't function like VNC in
that I can't share the desktop with a local user.
Let me take this opportunity to point out the virtues of Windows Anytime
America's Internet Disconnect
By Michael J. Copps
Wednesday, November 8, 2006; A27
America's record in expanding broadband communication is so poor that it should
be viewed as an outrage by every consumer and businessperson in the country.
Too few of us have broadband connections, and those
W.D.McKinney wrote:
Yes indeed, big cash boys will be the driver in 700MHz side, sure wish it was
designated for the WISP folks directly so that we could see some real
innovation.
If Google wins, the spectrum will be tied up for a long time with little on no
use right away.
Cheers,
-Dee
Mike Hammett wrote:
3 mbit is not fast. The US IS behind other countries, there's no
point in whining about it. Yes, there are very substantial reasons
why our numbers don't look as good as theirs, but there's no need to
skew the system to make us look better... just solve the problem.
The leasing mechanism could be interesting. You would have to sell over
a long period or with the right of first refusal on lease termination
otherwise there would be no serious bidders if you are not guaranteed
long term access to the spectrum.
What would be really interesting would be if
I'll duck after this post, but I by and large tend to agree with the basis
of the article.
Scottie, exactly what regulation would you recommend?
What has regulation solved in the past 11 years? By and large, I've not
seen a single bit of FCC regulation that has had a net positive impact for
Mike Hammett wrote:
Broadband Baloney (Opinion) FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell
According to several recent surveys, the average percentage of U.S. households taking broadband is about 42%; the EU average is 23%.
And wait until 2009, when our economy comes to a screeching halt. And the
Peter R. wrote:
Mike Hammett wrote:
3 mbit is not fast. The US IS behind other countries, there's no
point in whining about it. Yes, there are very substantial reasons
why our numbers don't look as good as theirs, but there's no need to
skew the system to make us look better... just solve
I guess I'm the opposite. I have plans that currently range from 256 to
2048. Most customers pick the 2048, with 256 coming in second. There are
some on other plans, but they were the fastest at the time. Prices range
from $25 for 256 to $55 for 2048. Business accounts are 50% higher $ and
Sam, I agree with your observation 100%. Given most of the oversubscription
models in place in the industry, it is not even a matter of having
cheapskate customers. Internet access (broadly speaking) is NOT very
bandwidth intensive.
Filesharing, video, etc... is bandwidth intensive. Other
I'd be curious to know if your percentages will scale. I know the first
100 or so customers I had were opting for the higher speeds as a rule,
but at the 600 mark the trend for me is $30 for 380K in the residential
space.
Sam Tetherow
Sandhills Wireless
Mike Hammett wrote:
I guess I'm
from his congressional visit:
I have recently proposed rules for the 700 MHz auction that I
believe will facilitate a national wireless broadband service. A
coalition of companies that support a national wireless broadband
alternative, Intel, Skype, Yahoo, Google, DIRECTV, and
EchoStar, urged
Clint Ricker wrote:
I'll duck after this post, but I by and large tend to agree with the
basis of the article.
Scottie, exactly what regulation would you recommend?
STRUCTURAL SEPARATION like BT is experiencing in the UK, which would
never happen here.
What has regulation solved in the
Clint Ricker wrote:
People pay 6Mb/s connections for the same reasons they pay for faster cars,
even though the speed limit is the same for a Ford Pinto as a Ferrari. Not
an entirely apt analogy, but pretty much sums it up.
As long as we're going with car analogies, I think a big truck or
Scottie, exactly what regulation would you recommend?
I think the FCC had it going going in the right direction with Computer
Inquires I, II, and III. Problem was, they never enforced these! The even
took out the office in early 2000 that investigated the companies that
broke the rules.
I am
Its not approriate to start changing the definition of Broadband.
200mbps symetrical enables a specific set of core Internet based
applications.
Maybe we need a new word, to define Broadband capable of handling Next
Generation Internet Applicationa Super Broadband? :-)
I'd also argue that
http://www.newamerica.net/files/openaccess700mhz.pdf
REPORT CONCLUSION FOLLOWS
*
In conclusion, I reiterate that the open-access policy would
likely be doomed to fail and the competitive benefits of the
policy would not then be realized if the
So what BT is doing in the UK?
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
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From: Scottie Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 5:03 PM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] Broadband
What all bands does the public safety industry use?
150 MHz
450 MHz
800 MHz
4.9 GHz
4.9 is exclusively public safety.
Nextel was granted some 1.9 GHz so that they would vacate 800 MHz, leaving it
to public safety.
The others are general commercial bands.
Now the FCC wants to give them 700 MHz.
Forced wholesale access of the physical layer / network layer does
absolutely nothing to increase availability and, in fact, actually
hurts availabilty.
You are incorrect there. The plant company would need to keep building
out to increase revenue.
The Application side would want that as
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