John,
Regarding your comment:
"Enabling thousands of new bustling and growing
entrepreneurs to build local wireless communication broadband companies
is the smartest thing they could do which is why they will not do it."
Yes, creating and supporting new entrepreneurs is what government
"should" do but our government has become corrupted (there, I did it...
I uttered the "C word") by the big money from large, entrenched,
politically-connected corporations. By providing large political
campaign contributions and gifts (like trips on corporate jets) large
corporations now control how new laws are written and how existing laws
are enforced. It should be no surprise that new laws are written to
benefit large corporations.
Back when I was a child (in the 50's) I was taught and I believed that
the job of government was to "do the greatest good for the greatest
number of people". Today, that's changed. Now, it's my impression that
our government writes laws to benefit those who contribute the most
money to political parties. In the last few years, there are examples of
bills that were actually written directly by large,
politically-connected corporations, delivered to Congress, voted on and
passed into law. Because laws written today fail to benefit the majority
of the people, our real economy is going downhill.
Our government prints billions of new dollars each month (millions of
dollars each day) but these dollars are not being circulated in our
real-world, local-businesses economy. These dollars are circulated on
Wall Street. These dollars are circulated between our government and
large corporations. These dollars are circulated between foreign central
banks in countries outside the U.S.
Now that I've framed the problem (political corruption), I have an
obligation to do more than just complain. I have an obligation to
outline the solution. The solution is to take the money out of politics.
Allow all candidates to campaign with an small but equal amount of
public money (our money). Remember, the job of politicians is to write
the laws that govern our country. By taking the large-corporation money
out of politics, politicians will be reminded each day who they are
supposed to be working for... they're supposed to be working for "us".
"Us" is not large corporations. "Us" is real-world, middle-class,
grass-roots, local-entrepreneur, working people. By taking the
large-corporation, big-money factor out of politics, government will
once again write laws that bring "the greatest good to the greatest
number of people". The FCC will then promote policies that truly build,
benefit and support local economies.
jack
John Scrivner wrote:
Travis Johnson wrote:
John,
This is just my opinion, but I seriously doubt the FCC is just going
to "give" away 700MHz licenses, even on a per base station basis.
I never said they should "give" it to us. I said they should have base
station sized auctions. They can include an opening bid amount. They
always do.
And the WISP community is not going to spend even $5,000 per license
if they could.
I would spend $20K+ per base station license. I am not kidding. I would
do it in a heartbeat because I could make it back in one year alone from
not having to tell people NO when we could not get them signal.
The cell companies will be bidding, and once again it will be in the
millions of dollars per region.
It is like farm ground. We are the farmers. None of us can farm if we
have to buy a million square acres of ground to farm. It is not fair. It
is exactly the same correlation and the FCC needs to hear it. (And
understand it which is a big stretch for them)
Honestly, what would you do if you were the FCC? Deal with hundreds or
thousands of little operators at $5,000 per license, or sell 3 or 4
licenses for the entire US for millions of dollars?
It is NOT about what is easier for them. It is a matter of what is best
for the country. Enabling thousands of new bustling and growing
entrepreneurs to build local wireless communication broadband companies
is the smartest thing they could do which is why they will not do it.
Scriv
Travis
Microserv
John Scrivner wrote:
Apparently there is a meeting scheduled today, April 25, at the FCC
over how the 700 MHz band is going to be split up for auction. It
amazes me how we can be kept in the dark about these meetings. If
anyone can tell me how to get included on announcements of such
meetings I need to know about it. This really angers me that we are
not there with some representation today. If anyone reads this who is
near the DC area please go to this meeting and tell them we need
spectrum to be made available on a base station license basis. They
need to auction off individual base station licenses or reserve some
for a flat fee so all of us can compete. If they do not then hundreds
if not thousands of operators who are now serving rural broadband
will not be able to compete. This is an anti-competitive problem that
the FCC needs to address with this auction. This is a big deal. If we
do not get some 700 MHz or similar sub- 1 GHz spectrum it is going to
be very bad for us all.
Scriv
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