Indeed, and the Pew study is very credible, well circulated on the Hill, and used frequently as source material for other briefings and other reports.
Patrick Leary AVP Marketing Alvarion, Inc. o: 650.314.2628 c: 760.580.0080 Vonage: 650.641.1243 -----Original Message----- From: John Scrivner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 3:31 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] This is HUGE! The point is we have a well known, if not largely credible source, who has just released a report that says we (Fixed Wireless Broadband Providers) are serving the broadband needs of approximately 8% of US home users. We obviously have been completely ignored in other reports and surveys so for once it is nice to see us represented in some statistically important degree. I am not really that concerned about the exact number of customers. It is just nice to see us making the report in some meaningful way. Scriv David E. Smith wrote: >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: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ **************************************************************************** ******** This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. **************************************************************************** ******** **************************************************************************** ******** This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. **************************************************************************** ******** -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
