Boeing is dropping it's plans to offer wireless access on the new 787
Dreamliner. It will be using a WIRED network instead.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/301086_boeing25.html
The reasons given were:
1. Reducing the aircraft weight.
2. Difficulty in getting regulatory approval in
An antenna in every row of seats??!!
~fred
On 1/27/07, Jack Unger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Boeing is dropping it's plans to offer wireless access on the new 787
Dreamliner. It will be using a WIRED network instead.
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My thinking is that Boeing engineers may have simply failed to learn a
lesson that some WISPs have known for years. Any knowledgeable WISP
could have told Boeing that putting two dozen access points inside an
airplane cabin would create so much self-interference that the system
would never
Sam, Walmart has made most of its money by screwing others.
Truck driver makes delivery to Walmart ad unload pallets. Goes to have
receiving sign for them. Receiving refuses to sign, and says that *after* the
truck driver *unloads* the items off the pallets, then he will sign. This is
NOT the
True, to be fair, there are Munis doing private Wireless, public wireless and
both. Most Munis see the benefit of doing it private, although some are still
politically tempted to do the public or public-private mix to make them some
campaign points. When we work with cities and they say they
I've been interested in using 900 MHz technology to start a small WISP in a
few areas in my region but am a bit intimidated by the vast amount of
competition. Just when I get started on the business plan and feasibility
of it all I start hearing about WiMax providers and 3G technology and wonder
Joshua,
Here is my view and remember while reading it that our company thusfar
is literally in the lead regarding WiMAX (Skylight says we have 80%
share of WiMAX deployments; Maravedis says over 50%; none say lower):
You are seeking to build and offer a fixed wireless broadband service.
WiMAX
By the way, a story about the inadequacy of 3G:
Last week I was in a car zooming south on highway 101 in the Silicon
Valley trying to make it on time for a WiMAX panel at WCA about
personal broadband (the world of mobile WiMAX). I was late. The driver
let me use his 3G CDMA connection to upload
I hope to have first hand experience as a BreezeMAX user soon to share.
Cheers,
-Dee
Alaska Wireless Systems
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Actually, Walmart has made most of its money by providing the CONSUMER with
what the CONSUMER wants.
A truck driver has his responsibilities. If he is told he should unload his
pallets - and
that is not his job, the issue is with his employer, whoever agreed with
walmart to
have the driver
The devil is in the details. I only sell unlimited connections over
leased line connections. Everyone else signs our AUP and agrees to a
maximum speed on their plan. We do not do this to be punitive either. We
do it because you will go broke if you try to sell multiple customer
connections per
Our company sells to US, European, and South American cable companies.
Outside the US, we see that the dominant service plan is broadband with a
byte cap.
Inside the US that is rare probably due to the US having been the birthplace
of the Internet and the widespread reverence for it as a system
Blake Bowers wrote:
The pickles... The famous pickles. Got to love it. You tie the
pickles with the
bankruptcy, when every industry analyst, all the business mags, Vlasic
themselves,
all agree, Walmart or the pickle deal was not a critical factor in their
bankruptcy.
Not sure about
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:27:22 -0800, George Rogato wrote
Blake Bowers wrote:
You know, the only real difference between WalMart and most other retailers,
is that what the manufacturer agrees to do, WalMart holds them to.
Rubbermaid, Vlasic Pickles, Bicycle makers, the list goes on and on. All
Blake Bowers wrote:
Actually, Walmart has made most of its money by providing the CONSUMER
with
what the CONSUMER wants.
Walmart fills only what the consumer wants. That is how they make
money,
by meeting those consumer needs/desires. When a customer wants
an apple for ten cents, you
I just read the USA Today article from 2003. It says the namebrand
items provide 15% profit while the private label items provide 30%
profit. Those are HUGE margins for a company now doing a billion a day
in sales.
I agree they have gotten where they are because they can operate on
very low
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:06:21 -0700, Travis Johnson wrote
I just read the USA Today article from 2003. It says the namebrand items
provide 15% profit while the private label items provide 30% profit. Those
are HUGE margins for a company now doing a billion a day in sales.
I don't know where
Mark,
While it is true that many suppliers created their own problems, both
Walmart Home Depot do in fact beat up their suppliers. Extra fees.
Delivery hassles. Invoicing issues. It is a catch-22: everyone wants to
sell at Walmart to get at the eyeballs, but at what cost? Why do you
think
200 lbs of aps and antennas How the hell is THAT possible?
I'll bet all of my gear weighs in less than that and I've got 6000 square
miles over coverage, not just one puny little airplane!
Steve, do your old bosses need help over there or what? You need to go back
to work for Boing!
My $0.02 slightly OT, but food for thought about price:
In my last lifetime I worked as a mechanical engineer. One achievement
I was particularly proud of was being the head engineer over a frangible
bullet production line (frangible copper alloy bullets for firing ranges
to prevent
Selling internet SERVICE is different than selling a PRODUCT. Your
costs are not in the hard costs of the product, leases, etc. it's in
the monthly costs (bandwidth, servers, employees, credit card
processing fees, etc.). So your "gross profit" is going to be much
higher than Walmart or
Mark, how would you like to be the employee at an American television tube
manufacturer and then lose your job and watch the plant close. The manufacturer
found that foreign companies were dumping their product on the American market
so they filed suit. When push came to shove, Walmart filed
One of my kids bought a game the other day. Wal-Mart had it at $x. A block
away we found the same game, brand new for almost half the price of
Wal-Mart.
We so rarely shop there anymore. Used to drop $400 to $500 per trip with
house stuff, clothes, groceries etc. We finally got fed up with
I read an article once about this. What happens when Walmart can't drop prices
any lower? Who foots the bill when Walmart employees get sick and go to the
Emergency room?
John
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