With money like that, you can afford to run against one of Elizabeth Taylor's former husbands. The FCC can be forgiven for indulging in a bit of wireless hype and hyperbole. The wireless industry, perhaps with too many marketing departments in the driver's seat, is guilty of relentless self-promotion. Granted, the FCC warns every prospective bidder that there is no guarantee of business success. Yet the commission's fine print is lost in an overall atmosphere of a wireless gold rush.
Many rural citizens take a skeptical look at any statement that oozes out of Washington.
Most would rather trust their neighbors than a bureaucrat or salesman. So don't listen to the FCC or a wireless vendor, listen to your neighbor. Of course, it is rude for you to pry into your neighbor's business, especially strategically important business, so I've done it for you. I polled several rural telecommunications providers located throughout the United States and interviewed their respective representatives about rural wireless issues. Of the entities interviewed, some providers are rural telephone companies while others are purely wireless entities that have their roots in rural telephony.