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Opening
Keynote Address
- 8am to 9am:
WISP
Industry, an FCC Perspective -
Mrs. Lauren VanWazer, of
the FCC's Special Assignments will
provide an overview on the FCC's past, present and future cooperation's
between the two entities. Katrina Relief Efforts will also be
discussed.
Ms. Lynn
Kline, Vice-Chairman of PART-15.ORG will announce this years
Fall License Exempt Industry Awards
Moderator:
- Michael
R. Anderson, Chairman, PART-15.ORG
9:00am
- 10:00am - Sessions
Administrative - Marketing
Strategies and Practices that Work - Being
a profitable WISP is about finding the right opportunities and
serving them early. Today, there are several untapped markets
that only
Broadband Wireless Access technology can address. To be effective
in doing so, there are questions that need to be answered. What
segments did you choose to target? What’s your value
proposition? What have you decided is the most efficient
communication vehicle to your targets? This session will explore
the answers to these questions as well as prompt you to think
creatively about marketing campaigns to reach
your prospective customers.
Speaker:
- Rochelle Paulet, Marketing
Director, Electro-Comm
Distributing
Technical
- Pole
Vaulting the Cops, Creating Legal Compliance Strategies That
Work - You want to
comply with the law, and be a good corporate citizen. However,
you need to focus on your business - and not on bizarre laws and
regulations. Stepped up regulatory enforcement, and local and
national laws dealing with terrorism, privacy, security and
e-mail, receive star treatment on the front pages of newspapers.
This session presents a case study in which a highly successful
ISP used pre-packaged legal tool kits to create new and
effective compliance strategies that moved their business
forward and did not sit on the shelf gathering dust.
Participants in this session will receive real-world advice
about effective strategies to deal with laws and regulations
addressing terrorism, privacy, security, e0mail and intellectual
property which should put both their investors and lawyers at
ease.
Speaker:
- David Snead
Specialized
- Walk
Before You Run: Effective Path Planning for Long-Range and
Non-Line- Of-Sight Environments - In
this session, WISPs will learn how to execute accurate path
planning in the most challenging situations - long-range and
non-line-of-sight environments. Attendees will hear how to
undergo an effective modeling exercise before purchasing and
installing a broadband wireless network. Internal evaluations
that should be conduced and anticipated outcomes as a result of
effective path planning will also be discussed. In addition,
several real-world case studies will be showcased during the
presentation.
Speaker:
Jim Hong, Orthogon
Systems
10:00am
- 10:15am - Morning Refreshment Break (Sponsored
by TBA)
10:00am
- Exhibit Hall Opens
10:15am
- 11:15am - Sessions
EXHIBIT HALL
EXHIBIT
HALL
EXHIBIT
HALL
EXHIBIT HALL
11:15am
- 12:15pm - Sessions
Administrative - Outsourcing
Essentials - In
this session, attendees will receive practical and immediate
useful advice on how to structure your relationships with key
outsourcing suppliers to maximize benefit and flexibility. This
session will focus on case studies involving Telco, help desk
and consulting services suppliers. Key points of discussion will
include negotiation strategies, flow-down provisions, regulatory
requirements you must impose on your suppliers, and learning to
deal with "our lawyer won't let us modify this"
contractual clauses. Speaker:
David Snead
Technical - E911/CALEA
for the Home Brew VoIP Providers
- This
presentation will discuss the increasing regulatory mandates the
FCC has recently proposed for providers of VoIP services. VoIP
providers must develop E911 capabilities by the end of November,
and in the meantime, get 911 acknowledgements from their
customers. And the FCC wants a backdoor into your broadband and
VoIP for CALEA. Still think your services are unregulated? Guess
again.
Speaker:
- Kris Twomey
Specialized
- Formation
of a Nationwide WISP Relief Organization -
The formation of a
National WISP Emergency Respond has never before been so clear.
9-11, Katrina and Rita are all indicators that the WISP industry
has a vital role to play in providing emergency communications
relief efforts
Speaker:
- Open Round Table
12:15pm
- 1:30pm - Lunch/Visit Exhibitors
1:30pm
- 2:30pm - Sessions
EXHIBIT HALL
EXHIBIT
HALL
EXHIBIT
HALL
EXHIBIT HALL
2:30pm
- 3:30pm - Sessions
Administrative - PART-15.ORG's
3650 Experimental Deployment
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This
session will provide an overview of P15's deployed 3650-3700MHz
Deployment in Illinois. Where
and how to file for the Non-exclusive Licensing, where to get
equipment, where to go for additional help, are all topics to be
covered.
Speaker:
- Michael
Anderson
Technical - Recent
FCC Rulings Effecting the License Exempt Industry
- TBA.
Speaker:
- Julie Knapp, OET, FCC and
Steve Stroh,
Editor in Chief, FOCUS on Wireless Broadband
Specialized
- Legal
Aspects of Emergency Relief Efforts -
In
the midst of destruction, WISPs have volunteered tremendous time
and energy to deploy wireless communications infrastructure in
the Southeast. These charitable acts do raise some legal issues
and simple steps can be taken to reduce the chances of
liability. This will be a round-table discussion.
Speaker:
- Kris Twomey
3:00pm
- Exhibit Hall Closes
3:30pm
- 3:45pm - Afternoon Refreshment Break/Visit Exhibitors (Sponsored
by TBA)
3:45pm
- 4:45pm - Sessions
Administrative - P15's
VoIP Reseller Program Highlights - Many
WISPs have tried to go directly to the VoIP companies to find
that you will need to sell hundreds and hundreds of subscribers
to 'meet your quota' in order to be a VoIP Solution Reseller
with them. With P15's VoIP partnership with Nuvio, the quota is
now on P15 and not the individual resellers. This session
provides general information about how the program works, how to
get paid, and marketing tips and tricks. The advantages and
disadvantages of P15's VoIP Reseller Program, what equipment is
needed, how to obtain the equipment. - Speaker:
Lynn Kline, Vice Chairman,
PART-15.ORG, Brandon Fur, Nuvio
Technical - Don't
Try This at Home - This
session addresses many of the typical mistakes most WISPs make.
Things that work and don't work "in the real world".
Problems and solutions will be covered. These three stooges have
more going for them than just the infamous Limo-Ride. Like every
single one of us WISPs, we've all made mistakes and some of
those were costly ones. This panel will concentrate on mistakes
most WISPs make and the solutions found to fix them .
Panelists:
- Rick Kunze,
Stuart Pierce and Jeremy Kinsey (Larry,
Moe and Curly)
WISPCON
Roundup - All
attendees invited. Raffles - and much more
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