----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Comroe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Open Meeting on 700 MHz
Before I start sounding like Mark, I need to state that I believe
government plays an important helpful (even
Ok, now that I stopped snickering... Rich, we're not that far apart...
but
the difference between is, is that I'm willing to argue what we all know,
but often just don't really want to address. That being the obvious
outcomes vs the ideal we want.
vital) role to promote US industries and provide the best services for the
US people. I just think they're >doing a bad job in this regard. I
fervently believe that regulatory anarchy is the worst thing for us all
collectively when it comes to signals that can travel long distances.
There's no excuse for lack of regulation >which can destroy the utility of
our spectrum which can all go the way of CB. There's a terrible need for
active FCC watch-dogs to weigh-in to counteract the impact of paid
lobbyists. Of course, the major >industries have a voice that's orders of
magnitude louder. But that's the way it's always been.
That's the nature of government for you.
The "nature" has certain observable qualities, and I address those here.
That's why I state things like government being lethal. That's its
nature,
that's just how things are. You people keep confusing that with the
notion
of promoting anarchy, which I am not. As someone once said "eternal
vigilance" is the price we must pay as a democratic type society to get
and
keep liberty - and that could be defined as having a reasonably just and
responsible government. "Eternal Vigilance" can be defined, when it
comes
to WISP's, as standing up for or against everything that impacts our
business, our services, or our ability to do either.
It is the very nature of government and the governed to be adversarial.
I
know many of you think that's some kind of politics, but it's not
partisan.
It's just the nature of the beast, as they say. Anyone who thinks that we
must give up something, does nothing but offer payment for empty air.
Unless we are EVER defensive, eternally vigilant, we WILL get trod into
oblivion. That doesn't take bad people, or ANY hostility on the part of
the regulators toward us, that's just the consequences of the motions of
the
1500 pound gorilla attempting to walk around the anthills.
If we have good enough things to say, and ones that give the regulators
the
ability to say good things about what they do, then we needed play 'quid
pro
quo" which is just a nice way of saying "shady dealings" which we all
despise. Most of them would rather have something good to say and do
something good... It's easier, but until or unless we give them that
ammunition, INTACT, it's not going to happen.
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: Jack Unger
To: WISPA General List
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Open Meeting on 700 MHz
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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