Fiber doesn't suffer from interference or have a low number of frequencies you can use at one location.
Richey -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stuart Pierce Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 9:16 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Why the telco's will never be true competitors to us I'm not sure I agree either, but wireless obviously can't be cut. With that though, our fiber hasn't been out more than twice in 5 years. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:15:16 -0600 >I'm not sure that I agree that wireless has higher uptime than fiber. > > >----- >Mike Hammett >Intelligent Computing Solutions >http://www.ics-il.com > > > >-------------------------------------------------- >From: "Tom DeReggi" <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 7:40 AM >To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [WISPA] Why the telco's will never be true competitors to >us > >> Agreed, Brett. >> >> I see people use business Cable all the time, UNTIL they have an >> outage, and then they loose all their customers feeding off it after that. >> If there is one Thing the Cable Cos understand it is "you didn't buy >> a service with an SLA because we dont offer one, so we can care less >> if you are down for a week, read the small print.". >> And what can you tell your subs once it occurred? "Oh I used a low >> cost Cable service, uh oh yeah why did I say we had better service >> than the Cable cos?" >> >> Plus, Wireless is more reliable from an uptime perspective, than any >> other technology (even Fiber), so why would a WISP want to use >> anything other than Wireless for connectivity to a tower? >> >> Well, it is true that some Business CAble services are less expensive >> than a single antenna roof right fee. But I used that arguement to >> negotiate lower roof right fees. >> >> Tom DeReggi >> RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc >> IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Bret Clark >> To: WISPA General List >> Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 5:49 PM >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Why the telco's will never be true competitors >> to us >> >> >> Blah...I wouldn't rely on any telco or cable company to serve our towers. >> We are completely wireless between towers, even our upstream Internet >> links are wireless running to local Internet exchange points. That >> way if there is a problem we are responsible for it and we can fix it >> without getting the run around from a telco. >> >> I was in the CLEC business for over 10 years and if there is one >> thing telco's do better than anyone else is finger point! It was >> never their problem until you provided beyond a shadow of a doubt it >> was their problem and 90% of the time is was their problem to begin with! >> >> Bret >> >> Tom Sharples wrote: >> I found out about so-called business DSL a few years ago. We had it >> here (Qwest), and every three to four weeks it would go belly-up. The >> "fix" was that, after a day or two of dead air, Qwest would send out >> a tech to power-cycle the ancient and creaky Nortel neighborhood >> dslam. This went on for a few months, until I switched to Comcast >> business-class cable. That has proven to be extremely reliable, and I >> haven't looked back since. >> >> Tom S. >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Marlon K. Schafer" <[email protected]> >> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 1:41 PM >> Subject: [WISPA] Why the telco's will never be true competitors to us >> >> >> I have a tower down. It's fed by a *business* grade DSL link. >> >> Can't get to the main router at that local. >> >> So I log onto the Century Tel (century link nowadays) web site go >> find a phone number for tech support. >> >> IF there is a phone number on their Microsoft Bing cloan of a web >> site, I couldn't find it. So, I decided to try the online chat thingy. >> >> Up pops a page with a spot for a the username, phone number and zip code. >> Naturally, I put the right things in the boxes. Only to get an >> error. So I tried again, and again. Finally I actually READ what >> the smallish print said you can ONLY put in ONE of the fields, not >> all of them. Hate to allow any answer to work rather than make >> people only fill in one field where they usually have to fill in all >> of them. My fault for not reading the fine print, but then again, I >> shouldn't have to.... >> >> Next, I finally get a tech on the screen. Well, kinda, the web site >> doesn't have anything but an error at the top. But the chat part >> eventually came up and a tech was on the line. We quickly >> established that the tech support guy wasn't able to see if there was >> a dsl connection or not. ug >> >> So, he gave me a phone number for tech support. >> >> I called that number only to sit on hold for a while (not toooo bad >> though) >> and then find out that that wasn't the right number for a business >> account. >> >> Called the next number. Sat on hold a bit longer this time, but >> still only a few minutes. We quickly got through all of the who are >> you type stuff. >> Then the gal on the support end asked me to tell her what lights were >> on on the modem. "Um, I'm an hour and a half form there." "Well, >> sir, I'm unable help you unless someone is on at the site." >> >> Sigh. The home owner at this site is a snow bird and won't be home >> for months yet. >> >> The tech support people aren't able to tell if there is a connection >> or not. >> It's not like this is a little, rinky dink company like mine. This >> is a HUGE telco! Ug. >> >> They won't even try to fix a business account that I pay $1200.00 per >> year for. Probably even more than that. Amazing. >> >> Have a great day, I know I will. >> marlon >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ----------- >> WISPA Wants You! 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