Wireless ISPs must have “a seat at the...
Wireless ISPs must have “a seat at the table” as the FCC considers the IP transition, Lariat, a small Wyoming wireless ISP, told several FCC officials Wednesday, an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/10ASWtm). “The ‘IP transition’ is not a transition;…
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our network has been all-IP from the beginning,” Lariat said. Wireless ISPs are “an archetype of what all broadband networks will one day be: general purpose networks on which voice is not a special service but simply another ‘app,'” Lariat said. WISPs have several concerns, including possible exclusion of over-the-top VoIP providers from numbering systems; continued anticompetitive special access pricing by ILECs; disparate treatment of non-carrier broadband companies; and incumbent requests for “wasteful and unnecessary” USF funding to overbuild areas “already served by WISPs.”