On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Bruce Ehlers wrote: > You guys are arguing about non-issue... Wifi for profit is a LOOSER without > added value. Any Tom, Dick, or Harry can put up an antenna and provide FREE > Wifi service to his neighbors, but is that what they really want? I don't I normally don't argue with people who use LOTS OF ALL CAPS and can't tell loser from a looser, but I'll make an exception here.
> Let the city provide free service and figure out why someone should pay > you for yours.. You'll be far better off and make a bunch of money while > the city provides another inadequate service that no one cares about. > It's the American way... By the way I'm still waiting for someone to > throw into this argument the "we're at war" statement as an issue for > something. This argument is ridiculous. Go provide water service (or compete with city-owned monopoly) to everyone within a mile of your house, and then talk to me. Just because you can't control everything the government does (and might not care about everything the government does), does not mean you shouldn't act to prevent government from doing yet another stupid thing (in this case, establishment of yet another monopoly). > I live in MN and provide FREE wifi service to anyone within a mile of my > house on the St. Croix river... Everyone can use it from their boat for > free, but I'll also bet that they have their own service that they pay for > at home. Yep, I'm one of those Tom, Dick, and Harry's and having fun > providing a FREE service to my neighbors on the river... I don't think that > Qwest or Comcast is worrying too much about it because they provide > something that I can't ADDED VALUE. No. They don't care about it because a) there aren't enough of you to make a difference b) you do not compete with qwest - there are absolutely no guarantees or recourse for customers who use that service. If 90% of your town was covered by free wifi provided by people like you, trust me, they'd care. -alex -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
