Don't believe anyone says at this stage in the game about who is getting funding. They haven't published rules or applications, much less accepted anything.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Scottie Arnett" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 11:52 PM To: <[email protected]>; "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Starting a wisp - required capital > What you are missing...is most of us can't get the funding to build that > Backhaul required and provide CPE for 100,000 CPE up front. Ok, sorry, I > see you are talking about Cali! > > Many of us are covering rural areas that the local telco is not yet....and > if they do...they are getting subsidized by the government to do it! > > If you want to know the real solution to the problem...go back about 10 > years ago when the USA Congress got rid of line sharing and instituted all > the fiber rules that left 90% of the ISP's out in the cold because of > Congress's rules. The Congress funded all the copper and most of the fiber > deployments to these places that the telco's promised to build out. > > We have been picking up stragglers (ones even gov't funded monopolist's > won't get to, because it cost them too much) for years. > > Now, make a lease agreement for that crap that any one would agree too. I > mean having to depend on the government from month to month and their > decisions. Most of you deal with publicly traded companies....deal with a > few govt subsidized(rural telcos...they are getting 80% of that USF fee > you are paying on you city telephone fees!) > > I have already heard that one area we cover is getting Obama's funds to > build out FTTH in an area that has Population in July 2007: 1,892. > > Now! Deal with that. > > Scottie > > It's a freaking Circus act here! > > Scottie > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: [email protected] > Reply-To: [email protected], WISPA General List <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 17:07:54 +0000 > >>All these talks about financing have been very interesting. >> >>Let's say I wanted to start a wisp to serve a medium city in southern >>california (population 100,000 or so). >> >>I can get access to gigabit fiber for a 1 time cross connect fee of 2500 >>and a monthly cost of 1500. There are a few spots in town that would have >>Los to large portions of the city. >> >>I'm thinking 100,000 to cover initial costs (cpe/ap/ tower rental/mapping >>/spectrum analysis/marketing/sales). >> >>What are the pieces I'm missing? (I would use contractors for the initial >>build, and onforce.com for tech rolls). Anyone have a spreadsheet that >>has all the various pieces? >> >> >>Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile >> >> >>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>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/ >>--- >>[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] >> >> > > Wireless High Speed Broadband service from Info-Ed, Inc. as low as > $30.00/mth. > Check out www.info-ed.com/wireless.html for information. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
