Re: [WISPA] Industry failings

Same here! Mark Koskenmaki wrote: Ok, thanks I'm 100% organic growth, here. And self-funded, too. Call it "bootstrap", if you like. +++ neofast.net - fast internet for North East Oregon and South East Washington email me at mark at neofast dot net 541-969-82

[WISPA] OT: AlvarionCOMNET Web site is live - link

: http://comnet.alvarion.com/ . for those that have signed up. Patrick Leary AVP WISP Markets Alvarion, Inc. o: 650.314.2628 c: 760.580.0080 Vonage: 650.641.1243 [EMAIL PROTECTED] This footnote confirms th

Re: [WISPA] Industry failings

Ok, thanks I'm 100% organic growth, here. And self-funded, too. Call it "bootstrap", if you like. +++ neofast.net - fast internet for North East Oregon and South East Washington email me at mark at neofast dot net 541-969-8200 Direct commercial inquiries to purch

RE: [WISPA] Industry failings

Organic growth is growth that is generated by the company itself through its own efforts, as opposed to buying the growth. For example, if you are the first to offer wireless Internet service in an area that you setup using your own capital, then you have grown organically. In contrast, if you go t

Re: [WISPA] Industry failings

Organic Growth means creating revenue through sales and marketing. *Organic growth* is the rate of business expansion through increasing output and sales as opposed to mergers , acquisitions and take-overs. Regards, Peter Radizeski RAD-INFO, I

RE: [WISPA] Industry failings

Organic growth typically refers to internally funded growth without outside investment. I would imagine that vast majority of wISPs are experiencing "organic growth". Best, Brad -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Koskenmaki Sent: Tues

Re: [WISPA] Industry failings

I have no idea what you mean by "organic growth" in contrast to "acquisition". +++ neofast.net - fast internet for North East Oregon and South East Washington email me at mark at neofast dot net 541-969-8200 Direct commercial inquiries to purchasing at neofast dot ne

Re: [WISPA] Industry failings

Organic growth is difficult. Most growth is via acquisition. You have to offer Value. You have to have a Plan. You have to Execute on said plan while offering value. - Peter Blair Davis wrote: Hear, hear!! Mark Koskenmaki wrote: For those of us in the "Ma and Pa" category, it wasn't too har

Re: [WISPA] Industry failings

Hear, hear!! Mark Koskenmaki wrote: For those of us in the "Ma and Pa" category, it wasn't too hard to see this coming. I've argued since the day I first dreamed of wireless broadband, that life's lessons would serve me fine... Find a way to meet the needs of your customers, in a way that ben

Re: [WISPA] Industry failings

For those of us in the "Ma and Pa" category, it wasn't too hard to see this coming. I've argued since the day I first dreamed of wireless broadband, that life's lessons would serve me fine... Find a way to meet the needs of your customers, in a way that benefits THEM and you. If you can't produ

Re: [WISPA] IkarusOS

I have a few clients using Ikarus... They seem to work ok. Some stuff just doesn't "work". I have a couple boxes that seem to have inoperable bandwidth controls or DHCP server. It's probably configuration, but I can't for the life of me figure it out. It appears to be exactly the same as the on

Re: [WISPA] Industry failings

Dustin Jurman wrote: Matt can you send some links for those sources. http://www.fibertower.com/investors-earnings-releases.shtml -Matt -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/piperm

Re: [WISPA] Industry failings

Dustin Jurman wrote: Fiber Tower is rocking the house. They are very focused and have a core nitch of customers that not only love their service but are willing to send lots of jobs and money to them. Oh.. And they are executing like white on rice. Are you joking? A quick read of their fin

Re: [WISPA] Industry failings

Wow. Do you have any factual basis for those statements, or are you just hoping? Does customers that send lots of jobs and money translate in any way to a net loss of 14.5 million in the third quarter of 2006, as opposed to a 4.9 million dollar loss in same quarter 2005? It is kind of scary whe

RE: [WISPA] Industry failings

Matt can you send some links for those sources. Dustin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Liotta Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 12:55 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Industry failings One the biggest factors holding our indu

Re: [WISPA] public saftey net.

Chris, AFAIK, no - they are not required to use 4.9 GHz exclusively. Although reguirements will vary depending on the group's needs and the recommendations of their techical people, there is no regulation that I know of that would prevent them from using the license-free frequency bands where

RE: [WISPA] Industry failings

Fiber Tower is rocking the house. They are very focused and have a core nitch of customers that not only love their service but are willing to send lots of jobs and money to them. Oh.. And they are executing like white on rice. Dustin Jurman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [

[WISPA] IkarusOS

Anybody have experiences they care to share? - cw TerraNovaNet http://www.TerraNova.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] 305-453-4011 Think globally. Act locally. Conserve resources. -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: ht

Re: [WISPA] Fiber Supplier

/Dan "The Cable Man" Oberholtzer at Elepro.com has always been a very good source of fiber for me. 26601 - 79th Ave South Kent, WA 98032 Phone: 800-423-0646 Fax: 253-859-9101 http://elepro.com/ Mario// / Scott Reed wrote: I have the opportunity to bid a inside fiber installation. I have a supp

Re: [WISPA] Fiber Supplier

You may want to contact Bruce at Lattice Business Solutions, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruce handles all my surplus gear, shelters, gensets, etc, and has been really good to deal with. He knows the industry. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Reed Sent: Monday, De

[WISPA] Biz Dev Proposal

Marlon, Brad, I can send wispa business. Personally, I'm a google marketing guy. most of our business comes from google... under a search for "evdo" according to adwords.google.com traffic estimator, under the terms, "wimax" and "wireless internet" you'd get 1800 visitors and 19000 visitors r

RE: [WISPA] Fiber Supplier

In that type environment you have several product choices, but I'd probably just spec in an OSP-rated PE (polyethylene) sheathed fiber with tight buffered strands since you'll be putting in conduit and will thus have a clean run with string. OCC (Optical Cable Corporation) out of Salem, VA would be

RE: [WISPA] Industry failings

This only adds more fuel to the argument that simply placing a multiple on a company isn't where the "smart money" is. Revenue is largely irrelevant. Profits are King. Revenue doesn't put kids through school or buy that new car...bottom line profit does. The concept of fixed wireless has long

Re: [WISPA] Industry failings

The one thing that has been the failure of SO many companies including NextLink, Yipes, et al - NOT ENOUGH SALES. Folks in the greater ISP industry tend to focus much of their attention on the technology. Building, tinkering, tweaking. Equally, your focus has to be on sales & marketing. It'

Re: [WISPA] Fiber Supplier

Thanks Patrick, I know how to do a lot of it, contract it. I know folks that do the labor part, but I am to supply the material. In the past someone else did it, so I am looking for vendors. Manufacturing facility. Total of 6000', Longest run about 2500. Lots of pull boxes, few bends, ju

[WISPA] Industry failings

One the biggest factors holding our industry back is a lack of success on the part of the big poster children. People look at the past failures of WinStar and Teligent and wonder if new entrants can succeed. Many investors are watching FiberTower and NextLink to see if these new poster children

[WISPA] Effect of Snow on 900

I put in a customer's CPE just as the snow season started at my customer's house in the mountains. They had around 2 inches of snow on the ground, and of course, some clung to the trees. They were gone for Thanksgiving weekend, and when they got back, it was a few days before I could get back to

Re: [WISPA] 900 Mhz Mikrotik SR9 Clients

- Original Message - From: "Butch Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 11:06 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] 900 Mhz Mikrotik SR9 Clients On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Marlon K. Schafer wrote: How many ip addys does each customer need in a fully routed

[WISPA] Content will drive growth

All, I thought everyone would be interested in knowing what the breakdown of broadband users were in the world and why people sign up for it according to the following article. As quoted from the article. The number of broadband subscribers in the world has grown almost t

RE: [WISPA] Fiber Supplier

Anixter, CSC Supply, Anicom (still around?), Graybar...these are (were) common suppliers in my day. You need to know what type of "inside fiber" though. Plenum? Non-plenum? What type of non-plenum? Will it require innerduct (also plenum or non-plenum)? Conduit (EMT, rigid, etc.?). Conduit construct

[WISPA] fiber

Can anyone give me any pointers to fiber for vertical lashing? I need @ 500', lighter the better, good durability. Thanks Chris -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wir

[WISPA] Fiber Supplier

I have the opportunity to bid a inside fiber installation. I have a supplier of fiber, but am looking for another one or two for competitive bids. Any recommendations for who to contact for about 6000' of multimode 50um fiber, 12 strand? -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Un

[WISPA] public saftey net.

If a first responder organization succeeds in getting homeland security funding, are they required to build an entirely 4.9 network? The folks I have talked with have this vision of having interconnected 4.9 networks that all first responders can connect to and that these networks will at some poi

RE: [WISPA] Routed vs bridged (again)...

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[WISPA] Japan ranks top in number of 2005 mobile broadband Internet users

04.12.2006 / 08:06 Japan ranks top in number of 2005 mobile broadband Internet users GENEVA. December 4, 2006. KAZINFORM - Japan ranked top in terms of the number of users of broadband Internet services via mobile phone in 2005, a U. N. telecom body said Sunday. The number of mobile broadband