Matt Larsen releases White Paper on the WISP industry
Matt Larsen, a long time WISPA Board Member and advocate for the WISP industry has recently published a white paper for WISPA that covers the advantages of fixed wireless providers and the tremendous value that WISPs bring to our country. You can follow Matt’s Blog at http://www.wirelesscowboys.com. Matt presented on the paper as the luncheon [...]
“Awards A Plenty” At WISPAPALOOZA
One of the highlights of the 2011 WISPAPALOOZA conference in Las Vegas was the Annual Awards Banquet. Over 400 people attended this banquet which featured a delicious prime rib dinner. The attendees were graced with Phil Bolt, the CEO of the new Cambium Networks, which recently purchased the fixed wireless segment of Motorola Solutions. Mr. Bolt was [...]
Gigabit Nation Interviews WISPA Executive Director at WISPAPALOOZA
Craig Settles, a keynote speaker at WISPAPALOOZA took time to interview Rick Harnish last week. Listen to the interview and their great discussion about Fixed Wireless Broadband, Community Broadband and the future of technology which can speed up the delivery of broadband to unserved areas all over the world. Listen to internet radio with cjspeaks [...]
WISPAPALOOZA Reviews are Pouring In
WISPA did an awesome job, this is a good group of people and I only heard positive feedback for the whole experience. I have attended many trade shows before and never witnessed the level of dedication, excitement, friendship and perseverance as I did in Vegas. – Ronda Fenlon – Marketing Broadband/Lorex Great show. Thanks again [...]
News of Note — After Irene
by Alex Goldman. The hurricane has passed most states with minimal damage to most areas of the major cities, but some rural areas were hit hard. In Virginia, up to 2.5 million people were without power at one point. An overview of the damage can be read here. Any area with power supplied on above-ground [...]
Convergence Technologies, Inc. (CTI) Introduces the Apex9 LL-1000 Licensed Backhaul
Burr Ridge, Illinois — CTI announces an addition to the Apex9 brand of products with the introduction of the Apex9 LL-1000 licensed backhaul. The LL-1000 licensed backhaul has been in development for over a year and completed successful final testing in September 2011 and is now available to the public. The Apex9 LL-1000 was designed [...]
Las Vegas TDWR Progress Report
We appreciate the efforts that the WISP Community expends to be sure that we do not cause interference to Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) systems that operate between 5600 and 5650 MHz. This is part of the 5470-5725 MHz band that is shared between licensed and unlicensed operators. Licensed operators, including TDWR systems, have priority [...]
Audio Interview: Fulfilling a Steve Jobs Vision
Today’s Inside Digital Media podcast is a twenty-five minute interview with Ulik Broidawho is the Vice President of Marketing at Israel-based Wavion, which is a subsidiary of wireless equipment maker, Alvarion. Wavion specializes in Wi-Fi access points designed for outdoor use. Earlier this month the senior founder at Trilogy Partnership disclosed that at first Steve Jobs seriously considered whether Apple [...]
Audio Interview: Small – but ambitious – Wireless ISP
Today’s Inside Digital Media podcast is a 32-minute audio interview with Nathan Stooke who is the owner of WisperISP, The company was launched eight years ago with a single business subscriber and now has about 3,500, mostly on the Illinois side of St. Louis. Earlier 35-year-old Nathan owned a company that did computer programming for [...]
Audio Interview: Auction Value of a TV Station
Today’s podcast is a 30-minute audio interview with Bob Finch who is the founder of SelectSpectrum which is a spectrum broker. Bob matches buyers and sellers of licensed spectrum, much like stock brokers pair-off buyers and sellers of stock. I interviewed him for two reasons. One is curiosity about the value of TV station spectrum [...]
