Re: wi-fi info

There are a lot of problems with that, it's like all those companies
that built huge fiber infrastructures down in the lower 48, they all
went bankrupt. The only people that have ever made any money building
infrastructure are the people who build it to sell, like alaska's cable
infrastructure, GCI turned an average infrastructure(that was built to
sell), into one of the best in the united states. If you tried to write
a business plan for something like that, it would never work, you'd
never make a profit, unless you sold it to some company. Who would want
to buy the service that you're offering? Who would supply A) the space
for these different nodes to go up around town(on top of buildings and
such) B)who would supply the money for these things to be built C) who
would maintain it? Lets say you did manage to drum up enough money to
build all the infrastructure, now you're faced with the problem of
demand, You have way too much supply, and not enough demand, with each
day spent, you'd loose money. Nobody would want to buy your service,
and it couldn't be free, because no bank in the land would lend money
to you when you don't plan to pay them back. It's a nice idea, but
there's no way in hell it could ever be accomplished.
On Jul 14, 2004, at 1:18 PM, nate wrote:

> Well,
>
> That's kinda interesting because I was thinking about setting up a
> community network that is free to the public. Cause think about it. The
> ability to transfer data within a community wirelessly is faster than
> the Internet. 11mbps vs. 1.5 Yah. we can setup an intranet around
> alaska.
>
> later,
> Nate
>
> On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 12:18, Justin Dieters wrote:
>> Speaking of, does anyone know of a list of Alaskan places
>> (particularly Anchorage and Eagle River) that offer free wireless
>> access? Places like coffee shops, restaurants, etc. I'm talking
>> about legitimate access, not 'my neighbor down the street has an open
>> access point' :)
>>
>> The only place I know of is UAA has some access in the CAS and
>> Engineering buildings.
>>
>> Justin
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Greg Madden <pabi@gci.net>
>> Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 10:49 am
>> Subject: wi-fi info
>>
>>> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/wireless/library/wi-
>>> run.html?ca=dgr-lnxw04WirelessTools4Lnx
>>> --
>>> Greg Madden
>>> Precision Air Balance, Inc.
>>> Phone: 907-276-0461
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