Marlon,
I understand that the vast majority of WISPs have chosen not to file the 477
form (or in the alternative they just don't know that they are supposed to
file).
Just out of curiousity, what do you hope to accomplish by locating the
thousands of non-compliant WISPs? Are you hoping to use this as-of-yet
unidentified mass to evidence the difficulty of meeting the standard, or are
you hoping to convince those non-compliant WISPs to join WISPA in its
efforts to develop a workable standard? or are you just hoping to prove out
the estimates that you have already provided to the FCC? Or is there some
other driving force?
Larry Yunker
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From: "Marlon K. Schafer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Principal WISPA Member List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 10:43 AM
Subject: [WISPA] wisp survey
Hi All,
OK, we're not going to get most wisps to fill out the 477 any time soon.
At least it's historically looking that way.
2 years ago I brow beat the major vendors and manufacturers into giving me
the number of wisps that they show on the books and/or radios sold into
the US market in the last 4 years.
That effort lead to the belief that there are a genuine uncontestable 3000
wisps in this country with a minimum of 1,000,000 subscribers. Numbers
that the FCC folks still use today as being more accurate than the 477.
Does anyone know of a research group that we could hire to repeat my
efforts in the past. Something that might be more effective yet? There
has to be a better way to do this than the 477.
Any ideas on the costs to do this project? Should we even put any effort
into it?
Could this be done by a group of scholars at a college?
Looking back on the data that I'd gotten at the time and how I calculated
things, I think that the real number of wisps was likely closer to 6000.
Today my gut tells me that that number is up by 25ish % and that the
customers serviced is likely at least double what it was back in late
2004. I know MY customer base has more than doubled since that time.
thoughts?
marlon
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