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Re: Wireless ISPs during disasters (hurricane harvey, irma and maria)


From: Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 12:38:30 -0800

AeroNet is a large sized independent ISP in Puerto Rico (as compared to
major US48 based national carriers, and relative to the size of the market
as a whole) and makes extensive use of PTP And PtMP microwave/millimeter
wave equipment, so I guess they count as a WISP. They are active on some
industry specific WISP forums.

https://www.google.com/search?q=aeronet+puerto+rico&oq=aeronet+puerto+rico&aqs=chrome.0.0l6.3240j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8



On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:


While some of the big companies like Facebook, Google and Microsoft got
some press about their wireless experiments during the post-hurricane
recovery, the FCC hasn't heard about the experience of wireless ISPs during
the recovery.

Were there any wireless ISPs in south-Texas, south-Florida, Puerto Rico or
U.S. Virigin Islands?  How did they survive, or able to speed recovery
efforts? Were there resources they needed?

WISPs don't normally report in the FCC DIRS or NORS disaster reporting
systems, so WISPs are a blank spot.




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