Re: [AFMUG] new FCC boss

2024-11-18 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
Elon seems to be very anti-subsidy. He has made multiple statements to that effect over the years when asked. Even ones that would add funds to his own companies. Obviously if the government is giving out money you'd rather them give it to you instead of your competition. But as has been alread

Re: [AFMUG] new FCC boss

2024-11-18 Thread Ken Hohhof
It’s hard to keep track, like I can’t remember are they going to ban Tiktok, or save it? And are EVs good, or bad? And what if all the fiber techs are illegal immigrants? As far as BEAD, even without a DOGE department, a lot of people might agree that BEAD is way too big and a waste o

Re: [AFMUG] AI and recruiting

2024-11-18 Thread chuck
Never found it to be worth the effort to use and edit. But I used to write magazines columns on deadline so spewing verbiage comes easy for me. From: Josh Luthman Sent: Monday, November 18, 2024 8:05 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] AI and recruiting I've been

Re: [AFMUG] new FCC boss

2024-11-18 Thread chuck
We will see. We can hope. From: Mike Hammett Sent: Monday, November 18, 2024 12:50 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] new FCC boss Historically, Republicans were about reduced spending. That's gone. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Inte

[AFMUG] new FCC boss

2024-11-18 Thread Dev
So what will Carr do for/against the little guys? -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] new FCC boss

2024-11-18 Thread Mike Hammett
I said this to someone on FB: What is the source of your appreciation for Carr? Is it something solid like a variety of specific policy proposals he has talked about or is it simply because he said things favorably of your preferred political candidate? Neither party is really all that grea

Re: [AFMUG] new FCC boss

2024-11-18 Thread Dev
I see this in Politico "Carr has repeatedly pushed for a more aggressive plan to free up wireless spectrum for the private sector” and wonder what that means, aside from auctioning it all off to VZ/ATT/etc., will we get any without billions to spend? > On Nov 18, 2024, at 11:01 AM, Mike Hammett

Re: [AFMUG] removal of WISP equipment

2024-11-18 Thread Chris Fabien
What's your service agreement say? We abandon CPE pretty commonly and rarely have anyone complain. On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 12:16 PM Ken Hohhof wrote: > We are starting to run into cases where customers cancel (most commonly to > get T-Mobile Home Internet) and while the CPE is still perfectly fu

Re: [AFMUG] new FCC boss

2024-11-18 Thread Mike Hammett
Historically, Republicans were about reduced spending. That's gone. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: ch...@go-mtc.com To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" Sent: Monday, November 18

Re: [AFMUG] new FCC boss

2024-11-18 Thread Ken Hohhof
I am inclined to agree. I remember when we thought the Pai Fcc was going to be so much better and more small business friendly than under Wheeler. What seems to happen is the little guys get the shaft either way.And I'm tired of policies flipping every time the admin changes parties, because pol

[AFMUG] AI and recruiting

2024-11-18 Thread Ken Hohhof
You guys sometimes talk about the challenges of the recruiting game. If this article is correct, I'm glad I'm not in that game, either as a candidate, or a hiring manager. This really makes me feel like a dinosaur, and I don't know how this even works. Like with a bot sending out a thousand t

Re: [AFMUG] new FCC boss

2024-11-18 Thread Ken Hohhof
Extensive article from Ars Technica.https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/trumps-fcc-chair-is-brendan-carr-who-wants-to-regulate-everyone-except-isps/I do however consider the author Jon Brodkin to have a chip on his shoulder when it comes to ISPs.I had forgotten about Trump not renominati

Re: [AFMUG] new FCC boss

2024-11-18 Thread Dev
It seems likely that he’ll receive pressure to include Starlink in BEAD, since, you know, Elon. It seems opaque whether he’ll see the value of open/shared/lightly licensed spectrum, especially something sub 5GHz, but that’s what I want for Christmas, in case he calls and asks. Maybe I should up

Re: [AFMUG] new FCC boss

2024-11-18 Thread Bill Prince
Last I heard, Tiktok had some kind of deadline, which they were not planning to meet. EVs. I do not know whether Elon cares or not. I was pretty sure OMT thought they were evil, but when he hooked up with Elon, maybe he's going to change hit mind? As far a BEAD is concerned, I was always und

Re: [AFMUG] new FCC boss

2024-11-18 Thread chuck
When in college I was a fiscal conservative, small government, don’t waste money. All except for pell grants... From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Monday, November 18, 2024 3:38 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] new FCC boss It’s hard to keep track, like I can’t remember are

Re: [AFMUG] new FCC boss

2024-11-18 Thread Josh Luthman
"Free money" with a shit ton of strings. On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 6:53 PM Bill Prince wrote: > Last I heard, Tiktok had some kind of deadline, which they were not > planning to meet. > > EVs. I do not know whether Elon cares or not. I was pretty sure OMT > thought they were evil, but when he hook

Re: [AFMUG] AI and recruiting

2024-11-18 Thread Josh Luthman
I've been using ChatGPT for all kinds of "write this letter" or write a "multi page document describing something". It's a good ToC with a few good sentences/paragraphs. It does so much heavy lifting. The article suggests someone is doing the same, but for their job application. Why write a sto

Re: [AFMUG] new FCC boss

2024-11-18 Thread Ken Hohhof
I was a Reagan conservative. I think Ronnie would be confused if he were reincarnated in today’s political landscape, like one of those movies where someone comes out of suspended animation 50 years in the future. Maybe like the Woody Allen movie Sleeper where in the future chocolate and fat a

[AFMUG] removal of WISP equipment

2024-11-18 Thread Ken Hohhof
We are starting to run into cases where customers cancel (most commonly to get T-Mobile Home Internet) and while the CPE is still perfectly functional we would not redeploy it. Like a Cambium 450 SM with a reflector dish (as opposed to a 450b). So we don't want it back, and don't want to send a t

Re: [AFMUG] removal of WISP equipment

2024-11-18 Thread Nate Burke
Didn't it use to be that Dish/Direct required you to remove and send them back the LNB at your cost? On 11/18/2024 11:15 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: We are starting to run into cases where customers cancel (most commonly to get T-Mobile Home Internet) and while the CPE is still perfectly functiona

Re: [AFMUG] removal of WISP equipment

2024-11-18 Thread Jim Bouse [Brazos WiFi]
We say: "we will grab it the next time we are in the area". No special trip. Jim Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S22+ 5G, an AT&T 5G smartphone Original message From: Ken Hohhof Date: 11/18/24 11:16 AM (GMT-06:00) To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: [AFMUG] remov

Re: [AFMUG] new FCC boss

2024-11-18 Thread chuck
Historically, republican administrations were always against the USDA RUS programs. I presume they will be against the Bead if they can be. As far as the FCC goes, one would think Elon would be no friend to the WISPS. Who knows From: Dev Sent: Monday, November 18, 2024 12:08 PM To: An