Correct me if I am wrong here Rick, it will be fruitless to do the map
unless you are able to maintain customer speeds of 4megs down and 1 meg up.
If you service your customer at speeds lower
than that then it does not matter, the FCC will fund the Telcos.......
~Doug
-------Original Message-------
From: Rick Harnish
Date: 11/29/2012 2:53:28 PM
To: 'WISPA General List'
Subject: Re: [WISPA] FCC Connect America Fund -- It's Baaaackkkk!
Are you on the Louisiana Broadband Map?
http://www.bakerbb.com/labroadbandmapping/
My contact in Louisiana is:
Mr. Craig Johnson
Louisiana State University
E313 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
cjohn...@lsu.edu
I do however see Michael Baker Group is the contractor. I suggest calling
them to find out who from their group is working on Louisiana.
Michael Baker Corporation
100 Airside Dr
Moon Township, PA 15108-2783
(800) 553-1153
Where there is a Wisp, there is a way!
Respectfully,
Rick Harnish
Executive Director
WISPA
260-307-4000 cell
866-317-2851 Option 2 WISPA Office
Skype: rick.harnish.
rharn...@wispa.org
adm...@wispa.org (Trina and Rick)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On
> Behalf Of Cliff Leboeuf
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 4:01 PM
> To: WISPA General List
> Subject: Re: [WISPA] FCC Connect America Fund -- It's Baaaackkkk!
>
> Rick, I thought that we did this task, but please tell me how I can
confirm. - Cliff
>
>
>
>
>
> On 11/28/12 4:45 PM, "Rick Harnish" <rharn...@wispa.org> wrote:
>
> >Fred,
> >
> >I assure you the WISPA FCC Committee is indeed on this. You make great
> >points and we appreciate your review. You are definitely correct, that
> >WISPs NEED to get on the National Broadband Map NOW! Those that don't
> >will be suffering from subsidized competition. Anyone who does not
> >know who to contact, drop me a line. I have contacts now for all
> >states. Maybe, I can get that list up on the WISPA website under WISP
> >Resources. There is one now, but it is not complete. I now have 4-5
> >names per state I believe.
> >
> >The guys at towercoverage.com are making it easy and inexpensive to
> >make your maps and get them uploaded to the National/State Maps as well.
> >
> >Where there is a Wisp, there is a way!
> >
> >Respectfully,
> >
> >Rick Harnish
> >Executive Director
> >WISPA
> >260-307-4000 cell
> >866-317-2851 Option 2 WISPA Office
> >Skype: rick.harnish.
> >rharn...@wispa.org
> >adm...@wispa.org (Trina and Rick)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org]
> >> On Behalf Of Fred Goldstein
> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 5:17 PM
> >> To: wireless@wispa.org
> >> Subject: [WISPA] FCC Connect America Fund -- It's Baaaackkkk!
> >>
> >> The FCC's home page ( transition.fcc.gov ) has an item about Connect
> >America
> >> Fund, posted with no description. This turns out to be a further
> >> NPRM
> >about
> >> Phase I funding.
> >>
> >> As you may recall, CAF Phase I was the short-term (2012) step that
> >>offered
> >> $775 per line to price-cap ILECs (the Bells and other big
> >> ones) to bring "broadband" to "unserved" areas that they otherwise
> >wouldn't. It
> >> was budgeted for $300M but only about $115M was claimed, mostly by
> >> Frontier. The Bells didn't take much. CenturyLink however whined
> >> that
> >the
> >> definition of "served" should be changed to specifically exclude
> >> areas
> >WISPs, so
> >> they could get subsidy money to overbuild existing WISPs. The FCC
> >>turned
> >that
> >> one down, though CenturyLink did take money for some other areas.
> >>
> >> The new Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking:
> >>
> >http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2012/db1119/FCC
> >-12
> >-
> >> 138A1.pdf
> >> asks what to do about the remaining Phase I money. While they could
> >> of course just not spend it, lowering the USF tax (now around 17%!),
> >> that's
> >not one
> >> of the two options they are proposing to select from. One option is
> >> to
> >simply
> >> add this funding to Phase II, which begins in 2013. Phase II allows
> >>for competition in the awarding of funds; there will be a reverse
> >>auction, and
> >the
> >> bidder who asks for the least subsidy money gets it.
> >>
> >> Most of the FNPRM, however, is devoted to the other option,
> >>essentially a second round of Phase I. They propose changing Phase I
> >>rules to encourage
> >the
> >> ILECs to take more money. There are a lot of questions about
> >>details, but
> >the
> >> basic ideas are along these lines:
> >>
> >> 1) Redefine "unserved" to be anywhere that doesn't have 4/1 service,
> >>vs.
> >> 768k/200k in the first round. This would be based on the National
> >Broadband
> >> Map, using 3M/768k as a surrogate for 4/1. (The agencies apparently
> >hadn't
> >> agreed on speed tiers.) So an area served by a WISP at 2M/500k, or
> >> by
> >Canopy
> >> 100s, would be deemed "unserved", since it's not 4/1.
> >>
> >> 2) Allow challenges to the national map. So if an ILEC thinks an
> >>area is unserved even if a WISP claims it's served, they can argue
> >>the matter to
> >the
> >> FCC. This works both ways, so I suppose an ISP could claim that the
> >>map omitted them by mistake. But it points out that a WISP SHOULD
> >>MAKE SURE ITS COVERAGE AREAS ARE ON THE MAP! (Just a little shouting
> >>in case anyone didn't hear it.)
> >>
> >> They are supposed to come out with a list of unserved areas (census
> >> blocks0 next month.
> >>
> >> There are some other interesting details. Phase I awards are $775
> >>per new customer. That number may be adjusted in this second round.
> >>Also, in
> >areas
> >> served by (rural, subsidized) Rate of Return Carriers, the subsidy
> >>number
> >comes
> >> from the FCC's High Cost Proxy Model. In Phase 2, these areas get
> >subsidized
> >> according to a more elaborate cost model now being debated.
> >>
> >> There is also the possibility that the Phase I recipient may have to
> >>build
> >a
> >> certain amount of "second mile" (basically, exchange feeder
> >> fiber) as well as "last mile" distribution. But there's no clear
> >obligation to make
> >> this available at wholesale, which would be nice.
> >> They also ask about how to handle builds that have to go through
> >> served
> >areas
> >> in order to reach unserved ones. So even if you're on the map, you
> >>could
> >get
> >> overbuilt by the ILEC.
> >>
> >> Note that a Phase I awardee must apply to serve specific unserved
> >> areas
> >and
> >> applies to serve a certain number of unserved subscribers,
> >> *but* they do not actually have to use it where they said they would.
> >>The
> >> applications are merely suggestions of where they might
> >> find their unserved customers. They can actually spend it
> >> elsewhere, so long as they get at least one customer added per $775.
> >>
> >> An open question is that several awardees said that their proposed
> >>service areas are confidential. The FCC has not decided if this is
> >>acceptable, so
> >it's an
> >> open question now. I'd think that a WISP should be allowed to know
> >>if the
> >ILEC
> >> plans to build subsidized service to an area they're thinking of
> >>building
> >to, so
> >> this should be public information, not confidential. So tell the FCC!
> >>
> >> I am hoping the FCC Committee and others interested will take note of
> >this. It
> >> probably won't reach the Federal Register for a while, and then the
> >>30 day Comment period begins.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com
> >> ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/
> >> +1 617 795 2701
> >>
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