On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Terry Schmidt wrote:
> > > In comparison though some things move faster, and we have more integration
> and
> > > communication than large companies. NYCwireless has more nodes in the metro
> > > area than all the commercial 802.11 providers combined.
> > >
> >
> > Are you sure about this? Do you count subscribers of even just Verizon
> > wireless? It would be great if you can elaborate the sources the statement
> > is based.
>
> I'm counting 802.11 providers, not Verizon wireless customers. Last time I
> counted, Starbucks had about 60 places. Joltage had 14 locations, but only 7
> were actually "on". I haven't recounted recently. Wayport / Boingo only had
> 4.
Terry, I understand that. I mentioned customers because I think it is NOT
the number of nodes that counts, but service quality of a node as measured
by, for example, number of custmers, distance, speed etc, among others.
Please remember Statbucks or whoever wants to get into the number games,
all they need is to buy 1 cheap Linksy AP for each store and they can run
over NYCWireless. Or they can simply say they did not turn it on.
As node auditing is on process, it may not be a bad idea to start thinking
what metric to use that can play for the favor of NYCWireless. But then I
will suggest to keep in mind the metric for PR, and the metric that would
be really useful for the members. I am sure the commercial vendors are
doing that from day one of their business.
Bon
>
> --Terry
>
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