Let me just add some ideas:
1) Follow what the DBS industry does: they get their customers involved
in making noise to Congress. Mailers, email notices, website buttons,
and online forms.
I understand that ISPs do not like to involve their customers for fear
that the customers will think you are dying and leave. If handled
appropriately, this need not be a worry.
II4A hired a lobbyist to write 7 template letters to be faxed to
Congress (www.ii4a.org/letters/).
2) Making noise in DC is expensive and time consuming. And diplomacy is
not something the ISP industry is noted for.
You need bucks. Start with a PayPal donation button. Put it everywhere.
Collect some dough to speak for the consumers who like their 3rd Pipe
bandwidth.
3) Come up with a realistic plan for the taxes. The gov't wants money.
Instead of saying NO TAXES, give them an alternative plan of action. How
could they collect additional money? PLay the DC game of compromise.
4) WISPA needs money. May I suggest taking this General list and making
it a subscription? Maybe $9.95 per month or $100 for the year?
5) You might want to set up a WISPA Meeting at ISPCON in May or at the
ISP Expo in Dallas in June.
(If you want help setting this up, let me know).
Those are my double-caffeine inspired thoughts this morning.
Regards,
Peter
RAD-INFO, Inc. - NSP Strategist
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