In places other than Utah, they are all about solar panel leasing. Some regulatory/legal framework in Utah make it either uneconomical or illegal to do what they do other places. Solar followed by home automation and security. The internet service is to support the other stuff they are really pushing. I know a young couple that moved from my neighborhood to Boston and are pushing solar all day ever day and loving it.
I think they put the solar panels on your house at no cost and you agree to buy the power for a number of years or some such thing. From: Sterling Jacobson via Af Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 8:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Vivint wireless I just built out one of their local neighborhoods. Some have it good, some not so good. I think that’s how it goes with their radio to radio mesh type network. A lot are switching to my fiber though. They appear to have locked in some people to a two year contract though. Some of those can’t wait to get out of contract and switch. The radios in this neighborhood are fed from a school that is nearby on fiber. It looks like a square with a two or three antennas sticking up from the top and down from the bottom. Mounted on an arm, lots of short jumper coax cables. Powered over Ethernet. From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jaime Solorza via Af Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 9:39 PM To: Animal Farm Subject: [AFMUG] Vivint wireless Spoke to young guys from Vivint Today at lunch and they are beta testing 50 x 50 mbps wireless using a fiber fed hub and then cover a neighborhood. Testing here and Utah somewhere. They work for automation branch and didnt know particulars. Anyone hear about this? Jaime Solorza
