This is a new one for me. This new member started life as a cable
operator and has since sold out of that part of the business to focus
solely on their WISP operation! Please welcome Jaron Parsons of Summer
Communications. Jaron has said as soon as the cable company sell off is
completed he hopes to volunteer his time to help our efforts along with
supporting us with his dues. Thank you Jaron. We welcome the help. Here
is a bit about Jaron and Summer Communications in their own words:
I am the manager of the Networking and Wireless Division of Sumner
Communications in Wellington, Kansas. Our company began as the Local
Cable TV company here in wellington about 25 years ago, in 2002 I joined
the company as it was having many growing pains with the Internet and
technology related to providing the Internet. We were one of the first
companies to offer Cable Modem service in Kansas. I began with building
the company into a state of the art Internet provider with the cable
modems. In 2003/2004 we put up our first Wireless AP in the wellington
area. I could foresee huge potential for offering a broadband wireless
service to the rural area, and we needed a way to expand our Internet
offerings outside of our current cable plant. Our new wireless offering
has taken off since that day, and we currently have nearly 25 AP's
offering wireless broadband services up to 1.5 Mbps (download) in all of
Sumner County, and parts of Kingman, Cowley, Sedgwick Counties. We
currently offer services in Network consulting, Computer and Networking
Repair & Design, Wireless Internet, Web Hosting, Server Colocating,
Cable TV, and Cable Modem Internet.
Recently the owner of the company has decided to sell off the Cable TV
and Cable Modem portions of the business, so that we can focus on the
Wireless and Internet related Services, as well as the Networking and
Computers portions of our business entirely.
Our current website is located at http://www.sutv.com, however this will
soon be changing to http://www.sumnercomm.net as we split the company
into two entities. I came across wispa.org while researching CALEA
options. We like most are struggling hard to wade through the
information out there and find our the most economical way to become
compliant. We use mostly mikrotik based routers on our network for the
wireless and etc, and in searching it lead me to wispa. Once I read a
bit about WISPA, I quickly decided to join, as there was a wealth of
information available. THANK YOU!
I look forward to a long relationship with WISPA.
Jaron Parsons
Sumner Communications
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