They created a great system. Maintenance is another matter. I'm aware of what its like being a small player where the big companies are trying to squash you to protect their turf. But you are making a living, meager though it may be. Until you become a CLEC, your access will be expensive. Becoming a CLEC brings on a whole host of other troubles.
--Curtis RickG wrote: > Huh? The high system? > http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003226851_fragile26.html > http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2008/06/part_one_america_is_falling_ap.html > http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2008/05/09/us-infrastructure-is-falling-apart/ > > As far as making a living upon the internet, most of the WISP's I meet > make very little (including myself) and pay through the nose for > access ourselves. > -RickG > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Curtis Maurand <cmaur...@xyonet.com> wrote: > >> Not going there on this list, but there is a long list its done right >> including funding the development of the Internet upon which you make >> your living. I would add the highway system as well. >> >> --Curtis >> >> >> >> 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 >>> <t...@avanzarnetworks.com>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: wireless@wispa.org >>>> >>>> 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: wireless@wispa.org >>> >>> 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: wireless@wispa.org >> >> 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: wireless@wispa.org > > 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: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/