On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Yury Gitman wrote: > 2) Your Signature to the Devil Called Verizon and Sprint: [I'm just > kidding I love these guys, just some good 'ole teasing] As Alex pointed > out there is only ONE thing preventing anyone from doing this. And that > your signature on the terms of service one signs with the highspeed > wireless service provider. Before using their futuristic high-tech > service we must promise to the little red man that we will not share > with our friends or resale. Does this sound familiar? It's like > wanting to share a dsl or cable modem with more then one apartment or > person. The only thing preventing a city of users from creating a > bottom-up infrastructure (like the one so celebrated in NYC) is this > signature. As you can see it's a deterrent, but not much of one. And in > the meantime, it's pretty amazing what new yorkers have done. No, they don't want to, because you will be making money while they will be doing most of the work. Obviously, usage pattern of 'rented' wireless is going to be different than average wireless user, so expect them to charge more for resellable connection. Nothing wrong with that.
> 3) What to do: > Verizon and Sprint are quite happy to sell each one of us highspeed > wireless for a small fortune for the rest of our lives. Other 80$/month is not a small fortune. > services (WiMax) will come up and compete and drive the price down. > So I think that the Magic Pizzabox has a two or four year window to > be a whole lot of fun, very useful, and/or a money maker, after that > you have to change some things around. The one thing preventing this > is the condition under which Evdo is sold. I don't know a way around > this. But I've seen this kind of roadblock by-passed a hundred times > by the collective minds and efforts of people who see a better > alternative. Maybe one of us will figure out a loop whole? Or someone > could simply start providing the PizzaBox delivery service, just > doing it under the radar, and taking the risk that they might get > their service cut off it caught [unlikely]. Don't. > Yet another alternative is to manifest a BWay.net that provides Evdo or > a service like it. I don't know, I'm just trying to clarify the problem > here so we can think-of or offer solutions. Or better yet, become the > solution. Yes, once bway.net invests 2B$ in evdo rollout, sure. -alex -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
