Frank Muto wrote:
Now this is spot on. WISPA is an ADVOCATE for the WISP industry. It
should never become, IMO an association buying group. Sure vendors may
look at WISPA as a market channel and wish to support it with paid
advertisements and sponsorships. But, unless there is enough accountable
(not made up numbers)membership they may not care to support the
organization.
Thank you for the lead in Frank.
My belief is, after having the buying group idea tossed around is for
the vendors to offer the WISPA membership a special discount that only
WISPA members can have. It's cleaner.
This is what WISPA needs to negotiate and work on.
You have already done this. Your offer of paying for any wisp's 250.00
membership fee was very very good offer and a benefit to WISPA members.
Before I ran for the board I was about to start a wireless assembly
business and I had a special discount for WISPA only members.
check out www.warvx.com and notice the special wispa discount listed on
the right hand side under news.
WISPA eventually will get more vendors offering our membership special
discounts. I've talked to various vendors myself and hear the "maybe"
and "pretty soon" words.
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