The exact number of WISPs may be in specific debate, but whether the number is higher than the reported 400 odd WISPs is not. I am certain the number is at least 500% higher than that. And doing some basic number crunching (which I won't reveal) on the amount we sell into the U.S., along with good estimates of what our principal peer vendors sell, it is easy to see that number of subscribers is much higher than reported. That does not even count the subscribers attached to BWA purpose-built Wi-Fi gear, both certified and not certified -- a number I suspect is at least as high as Alvarion's + Moto + Trango.
Patrick Leary AVP WISP Markets Alvarion, Inc. o: 650.314.2628 c: 760.580.0080 Vonage: 650.641.1243 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 1:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] FCC Admits Mistakes In Measuring Broadband Competition 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 (509) 982-2181 (408) 907-6910 (Vonage) Consulting services 42846865 (icq) WISP Operator since 1999! [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.odessaoffice.com/wireless www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam ----- 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 > > -- > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ ************************************************************************ ************ This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses(190). ************************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************************ ************ This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses(42). ************************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************************************ This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses(84). ************************************************************************************ ************************************************************************************ This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses. ************************************************************************************ -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
