This is a little rambly, but.
I was sitting in a park today looking for wireless and I came across two
Cometa networks. Wow, that's coverage. And they were going to spread
20,000. Wow. But they're shutting their doors.
Argh. Does that mean they rip out all that equipment and shut down the
line? Do all those hotspots just vanish? Argh. What a waste.
There should be a way and a deal that helps these businesses continue to be
a wireless hotspot. Maybe it's a goodwill gesture from Cometa's corporate
investors ("keep the equipment, for the good of all"), maybe it's some help
from a local ISP ("look, you didn't need that T-1, here's a DSL line you can
afford"). Maybe it's also some instruction sheet from a community wireless
group ("yes you can manage an access point").
In the big-picture, there should be some sort of transition plan that
minimizes the loss. I don't see any corporate player big enough to step in
to buy up these assets. So the network will just vanish. It'd be valuable
to keep it going, and I wonder, more cost effective than starting anew.
Thoughts?
Rob
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