George,
Welcome to my world. A world where ISP's bitch about everything, but
take little action.
A world where the ISP associations are supposed to miraculously handle
everything with little budget and a even less manpower. (You are
experiencing this now in WISPA).
FISPA, AASP, II4A and the state associations like CISPA, TISPA, KYISPA
all do a little part, but politics gets in the way usually. And ISP
owners tend to want to work on their own, lurk, etc. Even Pareto's
Principle doesn't apply. (It isn't 20/80, it's more like 1/99).
The fraction of active members will eventually burn out.
Like ripples in a pond or the butterfly effect, the actions you take
today will affect the entire industry -- maybe a tiny tiny bit, but
still. Get involved.
- Peter
RAD-INFO, Inc.
Interim ED for II4A (www.ii4a.org) & former board member over at FISPA
George Rogato wrote:
The problem with all of this is that most ISP's wireless or land line
historically do not get involved in a trade association and work
together for the common good.
Land line ISP's didn't join together and wisps are not joining
together either.
Here WISPA has been created and hardly anyone is taking advantage of
joining WISPA and trying to get anything done.
This is the sad thing that is discouraging, that an organization has
been created and nobody is taking advantage of it.
It's also discouraging to hear that some people say or imply that
WISPA is a good old boys club run by insiders, when in actuality WISPA
is an organization "wide open" that just about anyone in the wisp
business can join run for office get elected and take charge.
Very disappointing, and this is what makes me scream when I hear posts
like Roberts the other day accusing board members of getting paid with
perks or Marks suggestion this morning that the board is on the inside
with this stuff.
You guys, the wisps that are out in the fields doing the wisp business
should be trying harder to get the entire wisp community to join this
organization and to get something accomplished.
My "poll" for a working group for muni wireless had 2 respondents.
Only 2 wisps are interested or think they need help with muni wireless?
Hard to believe.
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