They get exclusive rights to light poles for a mesh deployment. I'm not at all advocating these projects but at the same time I just can't see several mesh muni projects per city being successful. I agree that there are way too many "consultants" jumping into the game. I heard about a consultant today saying that 900 Mhz can go thru 6 miles of trees and do voip for more than 25 calls per sector..... I won't name the vendor but I've heard the same from their reps. I thought maybe our industry would start to mature a little more in 2006 but I guess it's still a waiting game. Brad
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Rogato Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 5:19 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Council rejects wireless proposal Tom DeReggi wrote: > They have been exclusive. But that is part of the problem. Some how some > people conclude that an open wholesale network gets around the legallity > and intent the FCC has for unlicensed spectrum. > > But I also feel it is anti-American and border line illegal for City > agreements to be exclusive. EXACTLY, this has been the problem all along. Whats going to happen when Earthlink gets exclusivity in any of these cities or towns we are in. Is the city now going to stop us from operating in their area? Of course they are. Nice thing about this city council, is that one of the councilors was a wisp. Not sure if he's non profit or what, but he understands and he was able to explain the situation to the other councilors. I'm afraid that in most all councils, they are not educated, aware, or understand the reasons against exclusivity. I think all the wisps in wispa and else where, ought to go to their city council, address the council at one of the regular meetings. At the beginning of the meetings generally there is a time for public comments that you can talk to the council about stuff not on the agenda and tell them what you have to say. I'm not saying that you all should go and complain, but rather go and introduce yourself and tell them who you are what you do and the service you provide, amount of employees that you have and a maybe even general idea of how much you gross and put back into the local economy. I've had to go in front of the council a couple of times, and it's usually an easy and positive thing. If they like what you are saying or even if just one of them likes what they are hearing, they will engage you into even more conversation where you can pump your wisp even more! It's really up to us, the small operator to take the bull by the horns and make some hay. Otherwise, the "consultants" are going to come in and sell them on someone else. -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org 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(190). ************************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************************ ************ This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses(42). ************************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************************************ 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: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
