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At 03:33 PM 1/25/2007, you wrote:
>I saw that there will be a free level and a premium level. They may
>have a zero cashflow regarding billing, if the bid winning company
>absorbs all the costs, and claims to use premium revenues to fund the
>thing; I just don't buy that is the case though. Plus they'll have to
>supervise the project at some level, that costs money as well. If it
>were a citizen sponsored thing, inevitably there will be someone paying
>for bandwidth and someone else getting it for free. I personally would
>not accept that, but if the person providing bandwidth is OK with that
>one way equation, then so be it. Now the projects where someone close
>to a CO buys a fat pipe and the resells bandwidth at a fair price to
>those closeby, that sounds fine. I just can't be onboard with giving
>away something of value for free, somewhere in the chain, it has to be
>paid for.
>
>Brian
Brian, if you go based on that concept, then all these SCFN nodes are
contrary to your concept. :)
I pay for my bandwidth here at my house, and I also paid for the
network gear and the mast and the antenna.
Based on that, am I not giving away something of value for free,
where somewhere in the chain it's getting paid for?
-S
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