johnscrivner
@mvn.net
 from:
korym 
| Re: It'll be interesting... I operate a WISP in Southern Illinois that serves several hundred users. We have received federal funding to expand rural broadband in one community. We currently have broadband wireless delivered over unlicensed frequencies for about 17 communities in the area. There are literally thousands of WISPs working hard to continue the expansion of rural broadband. Whether they are venture funded or not does not take away their significance. I am not looking for venture funding myself. I am growing my business with federal funds and with money I am borrowing myself. While I agree a WISP band would be ideal I believe we can do just fine with the newly exapnded unlicensed offerings we will see soon from the FCC and with coordinated efforts to work together through our new trade asssociation, WISPA, Wireless Internet Service Providers Association. WISPA will be working to develop a strategy for best practices and frequency coordination by WISP operators. We believe this will strengthen our position and help our image in the telecommunications industry to prove once and for all that WISPs are significant broadband players.
John Scrivner
WISP |
