If WISPA was to get input on the grant process, I would like to see more "home town" WISP's ans ISP's get first hand at the funding. Why? simple. Telco's get to have their hands in Gov money 365 days a year. Its called the high cost fund.
With that the "home town" WISP's and ISP's, should be required with any large amounts of grant money to provide some sort of community service. IE First responder access, Library Access, Distance Learning, Community center access etc. Something that actually provides services back to the community that they are getting the money from. And I'm not talking FREE service here, nobody can do that in this economy. Sponsored maybe, discounted definitely. There should also be heavy stipulations on telco's getting funds from this. Telco's using government money have run to many ISP's ans WISP's outa business in the last few years. There should be restrictions that they cannot use these funds to deploy any new competitive services for end users, only upgrade infrastructure, or back haul systems. Fund spending once a company is accepted for the grant should be regulated not by acceptable vendors, but open to bids to create a more competitive buying place and to keep wasteful spending and price fixing at a minimum. Just my 2 cents. I have many other thoughts on the matter but am outa time before my morning meeting. Ryan Ghering Network Operations Manager Premier Systems Unlimited Inc. On Mar 3, 2009 8:05am, "Marlon K. Schafer" <[email protected]> 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: [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/
