Hey Marlon,
Here's what I see as our opportunity. In the past, the only
beneficiaries for Universal Services funds where the telcos. They also
collected many billions of dollars on behalf of rural
telecommunications. Like our central Colorado valley, the Telco spend
nothing on new services build out here between 1970 and 1997. Of course,
once entrepreneurial companies demonstrated that dialup, later DSL and
wireless were viable businesses in rural areas, *without* Universal
Services funding, they went about jumping into the market.
My discussion jumping off point is this: How can the Universal Services
funding be properly allocated to existing and new WISPs in rural markets
where it never has provided its intended 'urban pricing for rural
customers'... Its clear large businesses who have taken advantage of
these billions of dollars to fund their own interests will not
co-operate with competitive businesses - such as WISPs. This
non-competitive issue can kill off competition from WISPs. A portion of
our response should include a statement that 'in general - WISPs provide
rural services at competitive prices - but no necessarily at urban
prices' and WISPs should have direct access to U.S.Funding for rural
communities' and 'telcos should not be the only beneficiaries of USF,
and the mechanism for distribution of funds, application for funds and
monitoring of use of funds should be open, clear and encourage
competition and benefits to subscribers.
So far, that's about all I have to say. I'll have to dig into this a bit
more when I'm not busy making ends meet without USF. :-)
-AH
Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote:
I shot him a note this am. thanks!
Marlon
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Victoria Proffer"
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Subject: RE: [WISPA] USF fund issues
Marlon,
Don't have the addy, but phone is 415-577-4241.
Victoria
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Hi All,
I assume we'll want to file on this issue....
http://www.broadbandwirelessreports.com/pressreleases/files/DOC-262639A1.pdf
Here's the actual nprm
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-05-205A1.pdf
If anyone really understands the ins and outs of this, please speak
up. I'd
ask Kris Twoomey but I don't have his addy on my laptop. Can someone
please
forward?
thanks,
marlon
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