Thanks Rick
From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Rick Harnish Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 2:41 PM To: memb...@wispa.org Cc: 'Principal WISPA Member List'; 'Wes Griffith'; 'Ubiquiti Users Group'; mississi...@wispa.org; 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] [WISPA Members] Letters of recommendation needed by the WISPA group Joe, Good Luck on your project. Join us at WISPAmerica 2014 in Little Rock, March 21 <http://www.wispamerica.net/> st-28th Respectfully, Rick Harnish Executive Director WISPA 260-307-4000 cell 866-317-2851 Option 2 WISPA Office Skype: rick.harnish. rharn...@wispa.org adm...@wispa.org (Trina and Rick) From: members-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:members-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Joe Miller Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 12:33 PM To: memb...@wispa.org Cc: 'Ubiquiti Users Group'; 'Principal WISPA Member List'; 'Wes Griffith'; 'WISPA General List'; mississi...@wispa.org Subject: [WISPA Members] Letters of recommendation needed by the WISPA group Ladies and gentlemen, Finally after over 8 long years since hurricane Katrina, we are really close to deploying wireless Internet service into the Waveland, Bay St Louis, and Perlington areas of Hancock Co MS. Ground "0" of Hurricane Katrina Aug 29, 2005. I have spent years working on this project since WISPA / Part15 / T1 International left the area. The current infrastructure of the phone and cable companies are still sub par due to the salt water intrusion of the flood waters that destroyed most of the county and with the small population left, they are not willing to spend the millions required to replace it. I feel that this is a great opportunity to let the powers that be in Hancock Co know that we, the WISPA group have not forgotten about these people. I believe that bringing this technology back into the area will help with the economical re-growth of Hancock County, MS. Although the FCC map does not show this as a high cost area for Broadband, I assure you that it is. I have a tech who lives in Waveland that has to use a MiFi card because she cannot get high speed Internet at her house. With this she is subject to overages from the carrier. This problem is wide spread throughout the area. I am today asking for letters of support from this group on your company letter head that I can take with me when I meet with the new Mayor of Bay St Louis tomorrow at 3pm 2/24/14, and with the Hancock County officials on 2/26/14 at 9am. I know that this doesn't give anyone a lot of time to write a letter, but I was informed of these meetings this weekend. Any help with this will be appreciated. I would like to see this as a WISPA project and not just a DSLbyAir project. Every talent in making a wisp is encouraged to participate. "Many hands make for small work." I believe that this is a good opportunity for the group to show the country that this IS what WISPA is all about. This will give us as a group more credibility moving forward. It is time to help these people where they have been forgotten over the last 8 years. The weather channel refers to the MS Gulf Coast as the land mass between New Orleans, LA and Mobile, AL. we are Landmassians. www.facebook.com/Landmassians Although the rubble of the hurricane has long been discarded over the years, some progress has been made to get the area back to a pre-Katrina state but it has a ways to go yet. As Rick Harnish describes........We are the IP Transition....We are WISPA. This I believe will be a challenge to the rest of the country. I also think that D.C. should look at this and say, "this is how it should be done by private enterprise." If anyone wants to help with this project, feel free to contact me off list. Joe Miller www.dslbyair.com 228-831-8881
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