I can think of one company off the top of my head that would pull a stunt like that here in Alaska.
-----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Josh Reynolds Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 3:50 PM To: wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] FCC Broadband experiments phase 2 funding question It depends. I know of large ISPs with heafty cash reserves set aside for various projects, and it wouldn't be outside of their realm of "morality" to pull a stunt like that. Josh Reynolds, CIO SPITwSPOTS www.spitwspots.com On 07/31/2014 03:44 PM, Gino Villarini wrote: > Why would you bid $1 , if you wanted to lock the area. You would have build out already? > > Sent from my Motorola Startac... > > >> On Jul 31, 2014, at 7:26 PM, "Josh Reynolds" <j...@spitwspots.com> wrote: >> >> Deployed to. >> >> The whole thing sounds like a freaking play to the cable cos (imagine that). >> >> From my understanding, if you were a very large provider and wanted >> to maintain market-share and not let a competitor build out in your >> area with federal funding, you could submit a bid for the >> competitor's proposed market (and a bit more) for freaking $1 for the entire project. >> You *would* have to have the whole project bankrolled by your >> company, and done in something like 18 months I believe... but you >> would theoretically "win the bid" (which conveniently, amounts bidded >> and received are never announced). >> >> The bid submission system is 100% automated, from the way they described it. >> >> Josh Reynolds, CIO >> SPITwSPOTS >> www.spitwspots.com >> >>> On 07/31/2014 03:10 PM, Gino Villarini wrote: >>> So I have been reading on this topic lately >>> >>> On the financial side the FCC is going to fund for 10 years on monthly installments what? >>> >>> All the locations on a high cost census track that you deployed or the ones that actually subscribe? >>> >>> Sent from my Motorola Startac... >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wireless mailing list >>> Wireless@wispa.org >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> _______________________________________________ >> Wireless mailing list >> Wireless@wispa.org >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
