Probably a network buildout cost of $3 per subscriber, or POP? There's more than enough room for charges covering both the local-ring and hub. It's a modern day land rush. --- Lars Aronsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Levy wrote: > > visit the Intel Press Room at: > http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20021205corp.htm > > [...] > > AT&T plans to provide network infrastructure and > > management. IBM plans to provide wireless site > > installations and back-office systems. > > It seems the owners are trying hard from the > beginning to make the operation of this company as > expensive as possible. IBM will benefit if every > installation takes two hours instead of one. AT&T > will benefit if there is a per-megabyte charge on > traffic, and unstable equipment with a huge need for
> network management. It's not like a small operator > that hangs a zero-maintenance commodity access point > off of an affordable residential DSL line, but more > like a replay of MobileStar/Starbucks. The burn > rate is there, as if this was 1999, but how much > have they got to burn? > > Is this perhaps a sign that AT&T and IBM really > don't have anything better to do? It seems like a > stupid project, but perhaps it was the least bad > they could come up with? During the time Cometa > burns its venture capital, both AT&T and IBM Global > Services can show an increased demand for their > services, perhaps at a very high prices, which isn't > too bad these days. Only the VC firms lose. > > -- > Lars Aronsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Aronsson Datateknik > Teknikringen 1e, SE-583 30 Linuxk�ping, Sweden > tel +46-70-7891609 > http://aronsson.se/ http://elektrosmog.nu/ > http://susning.nu/ -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
