No please, let's not go there Josh. Obviously lots of people in the world, not just in the US are going to disagree vehemently with you. That's a completely useless conversation for a public list. Private conversation over a beer? Sure ;-). In a worst case, what you see as a banana gone bad someone else will see as a banana at perfect ripeness.
One thing maybe the FCC or other branch of government could do is issue regulations that would help expedite tower zoning approvals. Right now a large part of the review process just drives up the cost for no discernible benefit. As an example, in upstate NY a firm a few years ago shopped a boiler plate zoning requirement to many of the little towns up this way. As a result, if you want to merely change the type of antenna on a tower, or just add to it, you (legally, though I know a lot of firms don't actually do it) have to go through a full zoning hearing, which requires a $5K to $7.5K fee and includes paying a town's "consultant" to review the application. Crazy waste of time and money. (Yes, you can blame the problem on the town government, but people do have a right to set up their own rules by-and-large, and that's what these towns have done, even though they don't understand what they've done exactly. It's a place where the Fed. government might be able to step in though and set some intelligent ground rules). Chuck On Oct 8, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: >> Are there things you think the government - FCC, congress, etc. - >> could do > to help ISPs and expanding broadband? > > Seriously? Name one thing the government has done right in the last > 200 > years. The list should start and end with the military and that can > be > argued either way. The only thing the government could do to help > is to not > do anything at all. > > 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 Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Tim Sylvester <[email protected] > >wrote: > >>> Stimulus: I don't believe in it and did not apply. >> >> I want to understand people's opposition to the Broadband Stimulus >> programs. >> >> >> Rick and other people opposed to the stimulus, can you expand on >> why you >> don't believe in the Stimulus and why you didn't apply? Are there >> things >> you >> think the government - FCC, congress, etc. - could do to help ISPs >> and >> expanding broadband? >> >> Tim >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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/ -------------- Chuck Bartosch Clarity Connect, Inc. 200 Pleasant Grove Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 257-8268 "When the stars threw down their spears, and water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile, His work to see? Did He who made the Lamb make thee?" From William Blake's Tiger!, Tiger! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
