That subject line should say
"WISPA's Recent FCC Filing"
On 9/23/2012 11:22 PM, Jack Unger wrote:
Section 706 of the
Telecommunications Act of 1996, as amended (1996 Act),
requires the FCC to determine and report annually on “whether
advanced telecommunications capability is being deployed to
all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion.
As part of their reporting obligation, the FCC issued a Notice
of Inquiry (NOI) to gather information in this proceeding and
WISPA's FCC Committee decided to use this NOI to restate for
the public record some of the significant points that WISPA
has made recently in other filings. Our filing emphasized the
following points.
1. WISPs provide fixed wireless broadband service to more that
3 million people in the U.S.
2. In large sections of some states (we used Texas and
Illinois as examples) WISPs are the only terrestrial broadband
providers.
3. In other areas where WISPs do have terrestrial broadband
competition, WISP networks are largely unsubsidized and built
with private funding.
4. In many areas, WISPs provide broadband service that is
comparable in speed, latency and data capacity to wired
broadband service.
5. The FCC should act to make more unlicensed spectrum
available including in the TV White Spaces, 3.55 GHz, 4.9 GHz
and 5 GHz bands.
6. When setting Connect America Fund (CAF) rules, the FCC
should make sure that subsidies do not go to providers who
would use those subsidies to compete with WISPs.
7. WISPs (who are unsubsidized) should not have to contribute
to CAF funding.
8. WISPs should have access to funding from the Remote Areas
Fund (RAF).
9. Carriers who receive CAF support should be required to
provide access to their backhaul networks to WISPs who want to
supply broadband to nearby unserved areas.
10. The National Broadband Map should be the sole source of
information about broadband availability. The FCC should
encourage all states to use common data collection and
verification techniques so that data in the National Broadband
Map is consistently shown from state to state.
A copy of WISPA's filing is attached.
Respectfully Submitted,
Jack Unger
Consultant to WISPA's FCC Committee
760-678-5033
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Jack Unger - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc.
Author (2003) - "Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks"
Serving the WISP Community since 1993
www.ask-wi.com 760-678-5033 jun...@ask-wi.com
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