Yeah. But the FCC is also to blame. The form is ridiculously complicated.
And how many are really gonna fill it out? The FCC needs to really do
research beyond asking the public to provide input.
Unfortunately, we'll likely never really know till there is a tax on
broadband connections. People are pretty good about paying the appropriate
taxes.....
Or, at the very least, the FCC needs to start going after those that won't
fill out the form.
It's a screwy deal. In the end, does it even matter? The public outcry has
died out long ago. Now it's just political posturing and handwringing. The
consumer's problems are largely gone. The ACCESS to broadband is very high
in most of the country. Who care's about the DEPLOYMENT rate other than us
that are deeply involved in the industry.
Mostly, everyone is worried about a mole hill that some are trying to turn
into a government funded mountain.
Marlon
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dawn DiPietro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] FCC Admits Mistakes In Measuring Broadband Competition
Marlon,
And why does the FCC only know about 400 WISP's? How can the FCC know
these numbers did not come out of thin air if the number of WISP's you
claim there are don't fill out the proper paper work and let their
presence be known? If the majority of WISP's don't fill out the papers
then how can you expect anyone to know these numbers are for real? Like I
have been saying for awhile now if WISP's want to be taken seriously then
they have to play by the same rules as all the other players. Considering
WISP's are lumped in with satellite dish and still equal less than 1% of
the market it is not even a blip on the radar screen. If there is anyone
to blame for this it is not the people reporting the numbers.
Regards,
Dawn DiPietro
Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote:
Arrgghhhhh!!!!!
The REAL problem is that the don't accurately count providers. They only
catch the larger ones.
We're NOT behind. Not like some like to claim we are.
Hell, there are at LEAST 3000 wisps out there yet the FCC only has 400 of
them filing the form 477. I'll bet the real number of wisps is north of
6000.
Why doesn't anyone ever talk about how much further ahead we probably
are?
grrrrrr
Marlon
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin S. Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 5:52 AM
Subject: [WISPA] FCC Admits Mistakes In Measuring Broadband Competition
Found this on Slashdot
"For years, plenty of folks (including the Government Accountability
Office)
have been pointing out that the way the FCC
<http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070205/165735.shtml> measures
broadband
competition is very flawed. It simply assumes that if a single household
in
a zip code is offered broadband by provider A, then every household in
that
zip code can get broadband from provider A. See the problem? For some
reason
the FCC still hasn't changed its ways, but at least they're starting to
realize the problem. They're now saying they need to change
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2115154,00.asp> the way they
measure
competition. Commissioner Michael Copps points out: 'Our statistical
methodology seems almost calculated to obscure just how far
<http://techdirt.com/articles/20070418/143208.shtml> our country is
falling
behind many other industrialized nations in broadband availability,
adoption, speed and price.'"
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