MHz Auction for a wholesale-only provider."
But how do you find someone that can qualify as "Wholesale only?", and
afford to buy sizable portions of Spectrum?
And how do you define "Retail". Retail connectivity or Retail services? Is
Google considered Retail? IS a WISP Connectivity Provider considered Retail?
For that matter what the heck is WHOLESALE anymore? What purpose would the
Retail Connectivity provider play? Would the WHolesaler just be a license
leasor?
Are we saying that 700Mhz spectrum must be strictly used for last mile
transport, and connected to a third party transport and backbone provider?
Is 700Mhz wholesale going to replace the ILEC local loop? Who's responsible
for Wireless CPE installation? The proble, with Wireless Wholesale, is the
FCC now has to define how businesses will operate in order to define what
"Wholesale" means. Its much harder to define Whoesale for Wireless than it
is for Wireline services, where the wire is a physical thing that has a
defined cost and location.
I'd agree that OPEN ACCESS is best delivered when sold to a Wholesale only
provider. If that were accepted, it would rule out many possible buyers,
and severly lower the cost of spectrum bids. Thats a good thing for the
industry. But technically it could be argued that Google is retail, and
"Wholesale Only" would rule out Google from bidding and rule out the Google
4.5billion commitment. I think the Government is smart enough to realize
that "wholesale only" translates to fewer governement dollar earned from the
auction. Actually, "Wholesale Only" would restrict just about every WISP in
America from bidding, unless they planned on shutting off their existing
customers. "Wholesale Only" is a pipe dream, and not realistic.
"Wholesale Only" woul;d force new players into the market, forming new
companies to start out structured as Wholesale Only, which basically would
excluse all existing WISPs.
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Unger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 6:47 PM
Subject: [WISPA] New America Foundation Paper - Open Access for the 700
MHzAuction
http://www.newamerica.net/files/openaccess700mhz.pdf
REPORT CONCLUSION FOLLOWS
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"In conclusion, I reiterate that the open-access policy would
likely be doomed to fail and the competitive benefits of the
policy would not then be realized if the open-access license
were controlled by an entity that was affiliated with a
vertically integrated retail provider. No blocking and no
locking are likely to be toothless without the third leg of the
stool: no retail. If the FCC is serious about open access, it
should set aside a modest amount of spectrum in the 700
MHz Auction for a wholesale-only provider."
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