I was surprised to receive a call from Scott Mace of Penton asking if I would be interested in doing a Keynote speech at the Service Networks conference (formerly ISPCon) this November in San Jose. Surprised, because Penton has lost considerable ground with ISPs, once its core audience for ISPCon and Boardwatch Magazine by missing the strong and accelerating trend of Broadband Wireless Internet Access. Scott offered me the entire hour of the Keynote, but I felt that the audience would be better served if, in addition to my talk, hearing directly from a real, "doing it now, making money at it" Wireless ISP and a representative vendor of advanced Broadband Wireless Internet Equipment. I was delighted to hear that my first picks all said Yes to the invitation:
- Philip Urso, CEO of Wireless ISP TowerStream, which operates in Boston and other East Coast markets, using license-exempt spectrum
- Patrick Leary, Chief Evangelist of Alvarion (formerly BreezeCOM) which is the largest manufacturer with the broadest product line in the Broadband Wireless Internet Access industry
- Tom Freeburg, Corporate Vice President & Director, Motorola Labs, Motorola, Inc. Motorola is the second-oldest name in communications with one of the newest, most advanced products in the Broadband Wireless Internet Access industry - Canopy.
It should be an interesting time.
Steve Stroh
Copyright © 2002-2004 by Steve Stroh. This article originally appeared on my original Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog hosted on Radio Userland.
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