If everyone would send these ideas to grantscommit...@wispa.org, I will allow them to go through. The Grants Committee wants your input but does not necessarily read every post on all the listservs.
Thanks, Rick -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of John McDowell Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 10:15 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] grant funds ideas I thought I saw some posts on that? My main concern is that I do not want a community to be determined by Census. There are too many small communities of 50-100 people that are not on the census that need broadband. This to me is one of the major pitfalls of the USDA program. I could have funded nearly 20 communities for grants already had the rules left out the Census. There needs to be a better way to determine if a community is indeed a community regardless of whether it is reported as a community or not. The second thing that I would propose is the use of funds for obtaining licensed spectrum, including but not limited to EBS/BRS and PTP microwave links. Thirdly, there should be no salary cap as the USDA puts on Network Administrative positions that must be filled to help manage this growth. Quality Network Engineers and administrators are high paying positions, not to mention, engineers with the experience in RF, cellular-type technologies with the know-how to build a top notch wimax network. On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Marlon K. Schafer <o...@odessaoffice.com>wrote: > Hi All, > > I've asked before but saw no discussion so here it is again.... > > If WISPA gets a chance to give input to the grant process, what should we > tell the government? > > I can't believe that NO ONE here has any input on this at all. Did my last > post fail to make it through? Or should we not give any input into the > process if given the chance? We'll just let the telco's get all of it > then? > > marlon > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -- John M. McDowell Boonlink Communications 307 Grand Ave NW Fort Payne, AL 35967 256.844.9932 j...@boonlink.com www.boonlink.com This message contains information which may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee), you may not use, copy, re-transmit, or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received the message in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail j...@boonlink.com, and delete the message. E-mail communication is highly susceptible to spoofing, spamming, and other tampering, some of which may be harmful to your computer. If you are concerned about the authenticity of the message or the source, please contact the sender directly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org 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: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
