On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Charles Wu wrote:
If memory serves me correctly, BPS Networks / Telephone is an rural ILEC -- you deploy wireless in areas where it doesn't make sense to deploy DSL over your own infrastructure
BPS Networks is an ISP that is partnered with BPS Telephone (an ILEC).
Now, this isn't meant as a comdemnation or anything, but knowing this background information about you helps me understand your position (which, IMO, is quite enviable) -- the potential of losing access to the services offered by local loop is not a possibility since you own the local loop -- so this discussion is immaterial =)
My position has little to do with my partnership. I have NO interest (financial interest, that is) in the success or failure of BPS Telephone. In truth, if they fail, I gain (because I don't have the "strings" keeping me from providing a more profitable wireless service inside their border. _I_ (the ISP) do not own the local loop. In fact, I am growing more an more frustrated with them due to their inablility to focus on reality and accept the future of telecommunications (which WILL include a significant VoIP factor). But that is another argument entirely. ;-)
As a result, you have the luxury of being able to watch from the "woodwork"
My "luxury" to do this is not due to my partners as much as it is the fact that I simply don't have time to say the same thing over and over again to a group that is replying with the same thing over and over again, and neither of us (not "you and I", but our respective "camps") is able to agree on anything other than we are both tired of trying to prove our point. This is not something that will be resolved, IMHO.
BTW, my opinions are based MUCH more on my ISP background (going back to 1991) than any partnership with BPS. Just an FYI.
-- Butch Evans BPS Networks http://www.bpsnetworks.com/ Bernie, MO Mikrotik Certified Consultant (http://www.mikrotik.com/consultants.html) -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
