[CWN-Summit] Fwd: [WISPA Announcements] WISPA Files New Comments on TV Whitespaces

[Ben West]

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From: Rick Harnish <rharnish at wispa.org>
Date: Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:12 PM
Subject: [WISPA Announcements] WISPA Files New Comments on TV Whitespaces
To: announcements at wispa.org, motorola at afmug.com

WISPA Files New Comments on TV Whitespaces

On Wednesday, September 8th, 2010, WISPA filed new comments on
Proceeding Numbers 10-24, 09-157, 08-167, 08-166 and 04-186 concerning
Unlicensed Operation in the Television Broadcast Bands and others.
WISPA feels that this is an important decision, the country needs to
reach quickly to achieve the goals of ubiquitous broadband.

WISPA is proposing certain rule changes to foster meaningful and
robust deployment of broadband services in rural, Tribal, unserved and
underserved areas of the country, which is consistent with the
Commission’s objectives and recommendations described in the National
Broadband Plan.  The rule changes include reducing subscriber antenna
height criteria, raising broadcast antenna height criteria, increasing
power limits in a compromised fashion to reduce interference to TV
broadcasters, eliminating spectrum sensing requirements and adopting
licensed-lite regulation used in the 3.65 GHz spectrum.

WISPA also makes objections to efforts to license White Space Spectrum
for High-Power Point to Point Links. These objections are specifically
concentrated on the proposal made by The FiberTower Group.

WISPA has consulted with many entities concerned with the TV
Whitespace ruling and has reached a common sense approach which
adopted many concerns of the different collaborators.  WISPA believes
its approach will generate reduced broadband deployment costs and
greatly enhance competitive broadband offerings.  Competition is in
dire need in our country that has followed a course of business
consolidation the past several decades which has limited and sometimes
starved economic growth in rural areas of our country.

As President Obama pushes the current Small Business bill, there is no
better time than now to support these efforts.  Just as open source
software has greatly enhanced our software applications, the adoption
of unlicensed spectrum use has also enhanced technical improvements in
wireless transmission of Internet other data the past several decades.
  Locally based Wireless Internet service providers have realized the
economic benefits of providing broadband to their neighboring
communities for over 10 years.  These operators have often saved small
businesses, rural governments, schools and libraries by providing
broadband service, otherwise not available, using unlicensed spectrum.

The full text of the WISPA filing can be viewed at
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7020911589.


Respectfully,



Rick Harnish

Executive Director

WISPA

260-307-4000 cell

866-317-2851 WISPA Office

Skype: rick.harnish.

rharnish at wispa.org



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Ben West
westbywest at gmail.com