>>From: chuck goolsbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>Connect to the Internet wirelessly via a Ricochet modem
>><http://www.ricochet.net>. They are rolling out service in about 20
>>metropolitan areas this year.
>
>Those clowns have been promising to roll out service in about 20
>cities for well over a year now. I'm sure not holding my
>breath--they don't even do Boston, which is hardly a wasteland of
>techies. Don't get me wrong, the product is great, but Metricom
>seems to be run by a bunch of cavemen, and they're letting a great
>service languish and die.
They are not cavemen, they are just techie's trying to push a
technology through what has been traditionally a 'utilities' space.
They can't roll out service anywhere without the consent of every
little 'burg's city council. This takes much time. Seattle & San
Francisco were easy, tech savvy areas to install. The rest of their
deployments have proven to be politically very difficult.
Their networks are up and running in FAR more places than they
advertise (becuase they don't have FULL coverage) as they light up
the net as they deploy. I always have my ricochet with me and I
always make it my first connection attempt everywhere I travel, and
occasionally it works... and frequently in a place where they have
not promised coverage until 2001.
--chuck goolsbee
head geek wrangler, digital.forest inc, bothell, wa <http://www.forest.net>
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dad, errand boy, reluctant webmaster, the goolsbee's, <http://www.goolsbee.org>
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