Hiya,
WISPA already has an effort under way to get the unused TV whitespaces (the
dead zone between channels) and hopefully the unused channels in any give
area kicked loose for unlicensed use.
Please contact me off list so we can see what ways we may be able to
collaborate on this effort.
thanks!
Marlon
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----- Original Message -----
From: "k claffy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Martin's call for more radio frequency
spectrumforemergency responders
[not reading this list regularly, but tom hit a nerve]:
tom et al
caida (www.caida.org) is an internet data analysis/research organization
whose mission includes informing public policy, aimed toward improving
policy 'toward congruence' with our best empirical (scientifically
grounded)
understanding of the relevant technological issues/constraints/parameters.
i am no expert on spectrum policy, but afaict the difference between
having huge effect and having no effect is sufficiently formalized
reporting/analysis of Real World Operational Experiences (this means
you), written in way that will convey to scientists (this means me), as
well as to the public, what happens when technology gets deployed in
reality. one underutilized option is collaborating with university
researchers to quantitatively document (1) potential deliverables under
various regulatory scenaraios (2) successes and failures under existing
regulatory scenarios.
caida Really wants to help support forward motion here, but we are
desperately lacking hard data. emergency situations are obviously not
the time to talk about research, but i want to make it clear that if you
still don't have what you want by the time this emergency is over, please
don't underestimate the value of hard data and careful articulation
of the experiences you have had, so that scientists can come in and help
compile them into comprehensive and unassailable demonstrations to their
funding agencies of why change is essential.
i believe the right kind of analyses/reporting could reduce the
length of this fight from 10 years to 2. (ok, maybe 20 to 4...)
but the research community and the deployment communities are going
to have to [find time and resources] to work together. we've never
needed eachother more.
k
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:18:55PM -0400, Tom DeReggi wrote:
"Auction", I hate that evil word.
Really guys, if there is any time to hammer congressional legislators and
Home land security personelle, NOW is the time. Before our precious
spectrum is auctioned off to the special interets. Auctioning off 700Mhz
to a major IELC could be the death of independent rural WISPs.
I got an idea, why don't they give the FULL 700Mhz to the 700 ISPs,
spread
out decentrally across the country, and in trade all 7000 WISPs will give
FREE access / priority access to public safety officials as needed.
(except public safety buy's their own CPEs). Instantly the staff of 7000
ISPs across the country available for disaster relief. it would be like
the
Navy reserves but instead the WISP reserves.
Basically anyone that is granted a non-exclusive license of 700Mhz must
first register as a volunteer emergency communications AID, and conform
to
guidelines for documenting configuration criteria for the public safety
workers. Why not AVOID the whole expendature althogeather for the
governement, and still accomplish public safety, when WISP can already
donate the service? Better yet, why not jsut grant the public safety
budget to WISPs to expand their network, to accommodate public safety
needs. Lets see the RUS grant get substituted with the Public safety
grant.
But auction? I don't see how that could benefit anyone. Communications
is
a necessary utility, not a luxury to auction off for a special interest.
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
----- Original Message -----
From: "George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 10:06 PM
Subject: [WISPA] Martin's call for more radio frequency spectrum
foremergency responders
>Snip/
>Martin's call for more radio frequency spectrum for emergency responders
>came after Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Conrad Burns (R-Mont.)
>called for Congress to move forward on legislation that would free up
>radio spectrum by requiring television stations to switch from analog to
>digital broadcasts. A move to digital television (DTV) would free up
>spectrum in the upper 700-MHz radio frequency band for commercial and
>public safety uses. The FCC has said it would give 24 MHz of that
spectrum
>to public safety users and auction off 60 MHz for commercial uses. /snip
>
>http://www.networkworld.com/edge/news/2005/092205-fcc-katrina.html?nl&code=nledgenewsalert7636
>
>
>
>
>
>I got an idea, why don't they just open it up to wisps all across the
>country, let us use ths spectrum for what we are now doing and then in
the
>event of another disaster, there will already be gear in place to keep
>everyone going?
>
>George
>
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