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Ah,
But don't forget Craig McCaw and Clearwire. They have been quietly
buying licenses and setting up to deploy wireless broadband nationwide. This guy
built two major wireless empires before (Cellular One - sold it to AT&T and
Nextel). He will be ready to pounce on the market that gets caught high and dry.
As far as backhaul, remember there is a lot of dark fiber in the
US and other companies (Wiltel comes to mind) that provide big pipes and
backhaul services. I know they aren't always where we need them but they can be
of help. This group is made up of wireless operators, we can create backhauls
and networks to get around this problem. It won't be easy and it won't be cheap
but alas you could be free of the RBOC's. Seems like FiberTower might be in a
good position to help out too. They certainly will be on many towers where your
sites are, if not they should be within a backhaul shot to another tower that
has connectivity. It's time to think outside the box again. If anyone can figure
a way around this problem, this group can. Think of the possibilities of an RBOC
free network, when the VOIP companies can't get traffic through other networks,
where do you think they will go, can you say wholesale backhaul too? It's just
going to take a lot of cooperation and group thinking. This will be a huge
challenge for all of the small operators who are just able to keep up with
their day to day operations. It does seem like the only way out in the long run.
Might be a good time to attend the WISPBONE session at WINOG, this is exactly
what will be discussed, it now has more urgency.
Thank You,
Brian Webster
-----Original Message-----
From:
Tom DeReggi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August
03, 2005 9:06 PM
To: Dylan Oliver; WISPA General
List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Fwd: FCC expected to officially propose DSL
deregulationonThursday
AOL and Earthlinks don't need us. They will
build their own. We just get more competition in the Wireless
world.
ILECs stop having competition, WISPs start having
competition. The WISP indistry grows, but existing WISPs start to feel the
squeeze.
The independant ISP is our friend. Most likely if
they die, its just a matter of time before we do.
Should the vote go as planned in favor of the
ILECs, it will once again be a sad day, like last FEB 2003. Sorta like
in StarWars, when the Deathstar blew up Princess Leah's home planet as a
demonstration of its power, feeling a super void in the force as millions of
people were destroyed in a split second. Only ISP would be
equivellent to the People on the planet that got destroyed.
The truth is, probably nobody will
notice any difference initially when the vote happens, but slowly behind
the scenes the effects will be seen stronger and stronger as time goes on, and
eventually leveraged to the full advantage to wipe out independant
competition.
AS soon as you have 7000 indpendant ISPs, and the
TOP 10 Giant ISPs like AOL and Earthlinks trying to deploy their own networks
in unlicense, what do you think will happen? I can tell you the recent
allocation of 3650 surely isn't enough to solve the problem that will quickly
become apparent.
Just my 2 cents.
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 3:26
PM
Subject: [WISPA] Fwd: FCC expected to
officially propose DSL deregulation onThursday
"If the vote goes according
to Mr. Martin's plan, and the telecommunications companies find themselves
free of the requirement that they open their broadband networks to
competitors, it could have an immediate effect on ISPs such as America
Online and EarthLink. This fall, they could find themselves scrambling for
broadband alternatives. "
How 'bout them alternatives?
How you all doing on the build-out of your Open Provider Networks? Come on.
AOL may need you!
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From: Fergie
(Paul Ferguson) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Aug 3, 2005 12:27 PM
Subject: FCC expected to officially propose DSL
deregulation on Thursday
To: [email protected]
"United
States Federal Communications Commission Chairman
Kevin Martin is
expected to officially propose the
deregulation of DSL services from
telecommunications
carriers on Thursday."
http://www.redherring.com/article.aspx?a=13022
- ferg
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Primaverity, LLC
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