In 2004 *I* called the main distributors in the wisp space. 5 of them as I
recall.
It took some time and some arm twisting, but I got them to tell me how many
wisps that they had in their databases.
It totaled out at 12,000! I assumed that around 25% had purchased from most
of them at one time or another.
The highest number for any one company was 6000. That means that there
were, really, 6000 wisps that could not have overlapped with any of the
others. So, it's reasonable number I'm sure.
(sorry Peter, I thought I'd sent this but got interrupted and am just now
hitting the send button....)
Marlon
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 8:37 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] FCC Admits Mistakes In Measuring Broadband Competition
Where did you get THAT number?
3000. 6000.
I'd bet that there are less than 2000 total indie ISP's left.
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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