On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 22:43, Brian Webster <[email protected]>wrote:
> A week or so ago, I ran a study of the population and households passed by > principal WISPA members. Tonight I ran the numbers based on the whole > national WISP coverage map you all contributed to over the last couple of > years. The method for the calculation is pretty basic. For every zip code > tabulation area there is a standard recognized centroid point. I took the > big yellow national WISP coverage blob > http://www.wirelessmapping.com/National-Coverage-Map-for-Fixed-Wireless-ISP%27s.phpand > selected all of the zip code centroid points contained within it. I > found a database table of households and populations for these zip code > tabulation areas. The numbers are based on the 2000 census data so it’s a > bit stale. > Isn't this exactly why the FCC now requests counts by census tract? ZIP codes are awfully big in some places, and just because an ISP can service one person in a ZIP, doesn't guarantee they can service everyone. David Smith MVN.net
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