David - I agree with you as well... I would consider this report / poll to be bogus to the actual #s of "Fixed" Wireless subscribers. With that being said, perhaps this mistake will work in our favor :) Or against us :(
JohnnyO -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David E. Smith Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 2:27 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] This is HUGE! John Scrivner wrote: > Check this out from the Pew report. It appears that fixed wireless is > much > bigger than what even I thought. According to this report 8% of all broadband > connections in the US are delivered via fixed broadband wireless. Ouch. That study looks to be horribly methodologically flawed. (It's at http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Broadband_trends2006.pdf if you're interested.) Their survey required the responders to know what they were talking about -- if you have DSL, but a wireless router/access point, and you're not all that technically competent, you may well say your laptop has "wireless" Internet access when that's not quite what they intended. Here's the question they asked: > Does the computer you use at home connect to the internet through a > dial-up telephone line, or do you have some other type of connection, > such as a DSL-enabled phone line, a cable TV modem, a wireless > connection, or a T-1 or fiber optic connection? That question gives me a headache, and I'd like to think I do know what I'm talking about most of the time. Note that their survey only had about 1500 Internet-using responders, which is juuuust barely enough to be considered a statistically valid sample for a population of a couple hundred million. (Their methodology is a bit vague on whether they're sampling all Americans, or just adults, or...) Don't get me wrong; it's an exciting quote. I just hope everyone takes it with the proper perspective, and realizes that it's probably "high" by some unknowable order of magnitude. David Smith MVN.net -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
