Just had to throw this in there so I could have a small voice in this =) What bothers me is how everyone believes the big executives (owners, operators and engineers of AT&T, Motorola, Nabisco, etc) need paycuts. Most if not all of these people work harder then many and they manage, support and rely on hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of employees!
With me so far? Now think about this: paycut the million dollar salary of the athletes. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth." --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Robert West <[email protected]>wrote: > And yet it's a fact that small businesses generate more jobs. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Steve Barnes > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 1:39 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] just attended broadband stimulus seminar and WOW..... > > It is frustrating how the large corps control so much and the government > looks out for them. Like the 700Mhz band. Just think what you could do > with a 10 watt 700Mhz band with 20 or 40 Mhz channels. But what happen > Government sold the band to the highest bidder and I bet less that 10% of > the band has been deployed. This is again where Cooperation between wisp's > is important to get that word out. WISPA can help us have a voice. > > Steve Barnes > Manager > PCS-WIN > RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Robert West > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 1:08 PM > To: 'WISPA General List' > Subject: Re: [WISPA] just attended broadband stimulus seminar and WOW..... > > But I don't really envision AT&T coming to me and cashing me out. What I > see is them upgrading their infrastructure and taking the market. They > already have presence in our areas with cellular. I don't see think they > will care one bit about most of us small time operators. If we had a much > bigger presence and were able to compete on the same national level that > they can, maybe. But as it is, we're just the small time pizza joint down > the street that Pizza Hut opened across from offering items at half price. > Well, until the small time joint closes. Then it's full price from then > on.............. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of David E. Smith > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:23 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] just attended broadband stimulus seminar and WOW..... > > Robert West wrote: > > Why should [big companies] invest > > their cash in building a market when we can do it for them and once it's > > about ripe, they can just walk in and pick it? We need to do what we can > to > > protect our little piece of the pie somehow. > > A small entrepreneur sees an opportunity, builds something that lots of > people want, makes some money from it, then a larger company buys it and > makes said entrepreneur filthy rich (or at least better-off than he > was). The customers win (they get the benefit of the new network > regardless of who built it), the guy that just cashed out wins, the > bigger company that buys the network wins (they presumably see profit > potential or else they wouldn't buy). I thought this sort of > sweat-equity-for-cash tradeoff was basically the American dream. > > I don't see this being a bad thing for anyone involved. > > David Smith > MVN.net > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > 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! 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