I need to retract a comment that I made unclearly. "What we do know is we have a lot of work todo, to fight individuals advocating for states."
I did not mean that we should "fight states". I think it is important that we continue to work with our States, to improve our communication, and discuss the roles that are best for each of us. It was mandated by congress that NTIA consults States, and it is just common sense for us to coordinate with States who may already have put in lot of time and resources determining the needs of their State. What I meant by the above quote was that, there were some comment made at the NTIA public meeting today thst were not ISP/WISP friendly. We need to fight the comments made by those advocates. They did NOT promote fair working relationships between local ISPs and the States. The comments were very Anti-ISP, and State advocates were highly in favor of States having full control of Grant proceeds, apposed to private sector ISPs being eligible. We had to remind them that Congress also mandated that ISPs be eligible, if they could prove public interest good. The first half of the panel discussion was on what constituted public interest good. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom DeReggi" <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 9:07 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Today's meetings > No, because panelists spoke, not NTIA policy makers. > > What we do know is we have a lot of work todo, to fight individuals > advocating for states. > > Tom DeReggi > RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc > IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> > To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 7:57 PM > Subject: [WISPA] Today's meetings > > >> Do we know any more than we did yesterday? >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions >> http://www.ics-il.com >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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/ >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG. >> Version: 7.5.557 / Virus Database: 270.11.15/2004 - Release Date: >> 3/16/2009 7:04 AM >> >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.557 / Virus Database: 270.11.15/2004 - Release Date: > 3/16/2009 7:04 AM > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
