VERY NICE !!!! BRAVO !!!!! If a carpenter could drive a hammer squarely against the head of a nail with the same strength and precision as the points made below to the FCC then there would be no need for pneumatic nail guns and every nail would be deeply set with one swing! You do good work, Jack Unger! Thank you! Scriv
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Matt Jenkins <[email protected]>wrote: > *applause* > > On 09/23/2012 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 > > > > -- > Jack Unger - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc. > Author (2003) - "Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks" > Serving the WISP Community since 1993www.ask-wi.com 760-678-5033 > [email protected] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing > [email protected]http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > >
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