Thanks Frannie,
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Frannie Wellings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "John
Scrivner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Fwd: TV White Space]
Hey Marlon and John,
Well, there's lots going on.
In the House, Inslee and Blackburn have introduced their bill, the
American Broadband for Communities Act:
http://www.freepress.net/congress/billinfo.php?id=172
In the Senate, we have the two bills S. 2327 and S. 2332, and now Senator
Stevens has included unlicensed spectrum in his new massive telecom bill.
It's called the Communications, Consumers' Choice, and Broadband
Deployment Act of 2006. It would require the FCC, within 270 days of
passage, to finish the pending white spaces proceeding. It says that
within 270 days, “a certified unlicensed device may use eligible broadcast
television frequencies in a manner that protects licensees from harmful
interference.”
It also, as I understand, would extend USF to broadband though I don't yet
have an analysis of this section. Much of USF implementation would be
dealt with at the FCC. USF is not included in the big House telecom bill:
http://www.freepress.net/congress/billinfo.php?id=169.
The question now is what happens with these two massive telecom bills and
the separate unlicensed bill in the House.
I'll give you more information when I have it available, but please
continue to ask if you have any questions.
Best,
Frannie
Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote:
Hi Frannie,
Any idea where this issue stands at this time?
How about USF?
thanks,
Marlon
(509) 982-2181 Equipment sales
(408) 907-6910 (Vonage) Consulting services
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Frannie Wellings"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "John Scrivner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Fwd: TV White Space]
Hi,
No problem here. The impression below is false. There was even a staff
briefing on Friday in the Senate on white space use for unlicensed. I
know a number of people who work in the Senate and who did the briefing,
Ben being one of them, and this was not even discussed. It's not going
around on the House side either. The discussion is all about broadband
access. Unlicensed vs. licensed has been discussed, but there's no move
to change it to licensed use.
So it's okay. WISPA should do a House and Senate call-in very soon
though to promote the bills in the Senate and the proposed bill by
Inslee and Blackburn in the House. I'll help in whatever way I can.
Best,
F
At 10:40 AM -0500 4/15/06, John Scrivner wrote:
Hi Frannie. As you can see below we have a problem. Can you fill me in
on whatever you know about who, what, how this effort is being done to
kill our chances at the whitespaces? We had a significant presence to
help during Katrina and used a great deal of unlicensed frequencies to
help restore communications. I think we need to drive home the point
that if WISPs and others have this spectrum available we will implement
it and have it ready when disaster hits. Unlicensed deployed for
broadband delivery can help make disaster communications infrastructure
ready to use and already deployed. We should be able to dedicate a
large part of the available time on the network to first responder
traffic only which in essence gives them a chunk of the spectrum
without having to dedicate the frequencies to this and without losing
its usability for broadband to the people. Why leave large swaths of
spectrum dormant only to be used during an emergency when the same
spectrum can easily and effectively serve both interests? Let me know
your thoughts.
Thank you,
Scriv
PS. I want to put together a "Call to Action" via email and on the
website for all WISPs regarding the current white spaces bills once
they leave committee. Please let me know how we can best help.
Mike said:
Hi guys
Giving you guys a heads up here as I can imagine you would be very
disappointed if the chatter I'm hearing comes true.
As you know I'm on that FCC panel for Katrina Communications failures.
During many of the discussions and research there is a lot of chatter
going
on all over D.C. about using the TV white spaces (or at least a large
chunk
of them) for Emergency Response ONLY(much the same as 4.9GHz).
I know you guys are working hard on trying to get the TV space for the
License Exempt WISPs, but the current chatter could have a significant
impact on your efforts.
You may want to do some digging to find out more about who, what, when
and
where this chatter is coming from and where it may go.
Regards and good luck
Michael
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