Aspen Wireless News & Updates

ASPEN, Colo. – On a hillside overlooking downtown Aspen, three entrepreneurs; Jim Selby, Scott Stevens, and David Peterson describe The Aspen Wireless Network, an ultra-advanced Wi-Fi Mesh-networking system that now blankets this resort community with a high-quality wireless broadband cloud. Listening with obvious fascination was one of the most powerful people in American communications.

“This is breathtaking,’’ said Michael Powell, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, as the trio wrapped up its presentation. He was continually impressed, he added, at how modern technology has upended traditional assumptions of what it takes, in money and time, to create such a system.- Dan Gillmor, Mercury News Tech Columnist

San Jose Mercury News (FULL STORY – free registration)
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/9489638.htm?1c

Dan Gillmor Blog Entry
http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/010722.html#010722

The FCC Rural WISP showcase is rescheduled from it’s cancellation after hurricane Isabelle hits virginia and Washington D.C. Invited back for the reschedule after having braved the entire storm, AspenWireless makes a virtual presentation over Voice over IP remotely.

The showcase was designed to facilitate information dissemination about Rural WISPs as a compelling solution for rural broadband service. It also provided an opportunity for the Commission to learn what, if any, regulatory barriers stand in the way of rural WISP deployment.

The FCC Rural WISP Showcase
http://www.fcc.gov/osp/rural-wisp/

FCC Presentation
http://www.aspenwireless.net/selbystevens_aspenwireless.ppt