I have seen many excellent ideas posed lately about ways in which WISPA
can do this or WISPA can do that for the industry. I am sure WISPA will
become the place where all of these things become a reality in the
future. For now we have a more immediate need. People need to stop
telling us what we ought to be doing and start paying their dues. If you
are paying your dues then you need to be telling others to pay their dues.
WISPA has spent the best part of our time on projects we feel are
critical to the future of this industry. I am not downplaying the
importance of some of the other ideas posed. I just know we cannot do it
all without more people, more money and more positive focus and
direction. Right now WISPA is made up of the following membership:
Principle Members (WISP Operators)= 64
Associate Members = 5
Vendor Member = 8
We have over 700 people using our list servers so people know we are
here and there is interest. They just won't pay their dues.
That means that a mere 74 organizations out of thousands are paying
their dues. That is reprehensible. How can any of us believe that this
organization can do more than we are already for our industry when 74
out of maybe 6000 join?
Let me be clear about this. Before we start saying these guys cannot
join or we need to shut these guys down or whatever we better start
getting more representation here. Maybe when we have more than 2% of our
industry represented in our organization then we can start setting the
bar a little higher. For now we better start looking at ways we can all
help prop this organization up before it falls flat on its backhaul. If
you are reading this and you are not a dues paying member of WISPA then
get over to http://signup.wispa.org right now and become a member.
Scriv
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