Uh Sam, you do remember the 5.4 gig band right?
255 mhz of NEW spectrum, made available last year.
There's also 24ghz and 60ghz available. We just need people building the
new toys at price points that will work for us.
Know what I want? A 15 or 20 meg $1500 to $2000 60 gig solution good for a
mile or two.
marlon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Tetherow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] CALEA Exemption for Small Wireless ISPs
My opinion then, is that the FCC can get off their duffs and provide
internet to the hinterlands themselves.
There is more to CALEA than having a $500 unix box, and sharing a $7000
turnkey box is not an option unless you are sharing it within a tight
geographical area since response times on execution of certain parts of
CALEA is shorter than an overnight shipment.
As for getting more spectrum, quite honestly I will believe it when I see
it. The FCC is far more interested in the cash that spectrum sales bring
in than it is interested in providing the best use of the spectrum for the
American public.
Sam Tetherow
Sandhills Wireless
cw wrote:
My opinion is that you're not helping the big picture by saying
compliance is more than you can handle. The FCC is not going to go out of
their way to hand out more spectrum to providers that can't perform basic
requirements. Just like they're not going to help providers that refuse
to file 475 forms. You can build a unix box for five hundred dollars that
will do the job for you. Or you can buy a turnkey box with support for
seven thousand. I've seen it suggested people pool their funds and share
a $7000 turnkey box. If you can't do any of these things, then you can't
provide required services. I don't like or trust government but I don't
think they're out of line requiring providers be CALEA compliant. This
one ain't special interests motivated. - cw
Jack Unger wrote:
Dear Representative Stupak,
I'm writing to support your request on March 14, 2007 asking that the
FCC Commissioners consider a waiver from CALEA regulations for small
broadband providers.
In a nutshell, the costs of complying with the CALEA provisions are far
in excess of what small broadband providers can afford to pay. It is
poor government policy to allow the costs of CALEA compliance to
literally put small broadband providers out of business thereby denying
broadband Internet access to many rural Americans.
Do you plan to introduce legislation that directs the FCC to reconsider
their regulations and to consider the compliance costs when regulating
small Internet access providers?
Please advise me how I can further support your effort to retain
broadband Internet access service for rural Americans.
Thank you for your time, interest, and efforts.
Sincerely,
Jack Unger
P.S. - I am copying this email to the general email list maintained by
the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA.org) to help
as many small ISPs as possible learn about and support your efforts in
their behalf. I will forward your response to this list.
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