I think that everyone that has a rep on the telecom subcommittee of Commerce committee should contact them to voice concern.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of George Rogato Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:16 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] [Sarcasm Alert] Yippee! Sprint "owns" the NTIA I was going to suggest that clear wire would be the biggest winner in this stimulus package. But I didn't want to throw a wet towel at anyone. We still have to take a shot at it and get something. John Scrivner wrote: > Does anyone know the stock symbol for the company that makes KY Jelly? > I think that is where I will be moving my portfolio to. I'll just go > ahead now and predict that Sprint / Clearwire end up with a minimum of > $3B, likely more. > > > TODAY'S SPOTLIGHT... Former Sprint exec tapped as NTIA deputy director > > The Obama administration has named a former Sprint Nextel executive, > Anna Gomez, to serve as deputy director of the National > Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which will > handle as much as $6.65 billion in new stimulus wireless and broadband > grants that will be available to Sprint and its competitors. > > Gomez, former vice president of government affairs with Sprint, is > currently acting director of NTIA, which influences the president's > telecom policy within the Commerce Department. > > NTIA spokesman Bart Forbes said in an interview with the Wall Street > Journal that Gomez understands that the public has "every right to be > concerned about her role in a potential broadband grant program," > because of her history with Sprint. "She is discussing this with the > ethics office and will look to remove herself from the decision-making > process" for grant applications where appropriate, he said. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
