Thank you very, very much
Scriv. It feels great to be appreciated and complimented however
WISPA's work on behalf of our industry would not be possible
without
a) The work, the understanding and the support of the WISPA
Board and of WISPA President Elizabeth Bowles.
b) The suggestions from and the work of the Members of WISPA's
FCC Committee.
c) The outstanding legal mind and work of Steve Coran of Rini
Coran.
d) The financial and the moral support that we receive from
WISPA Members that makes our work possible.
Together, we will continue to grow our industry and the services
that we deliver to our friends, our neighbors and other members
of the public who need and rely on us.
jack
On 10/2/2012 11:24 PM, John Scrivner
wrote:
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 1993
www.ask-wi.com760-678-5033[email protected]
--
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 [email protected]
