] Municipal Broadband - A Growing Threat (to Telcos)
Thats the big thing government forgets to realize, that the costly
part of FREE wifi to deliver is End user infrastructure and support,
not deployment of the transport network. Thats why I believe many
Government projects
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From: Tom DeReggi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Municipal Broadband - A Growing Threat (to Telcos)
Thats the big thing government forgets to realize, that the costly part of
FREE wifi
Peter,
Unfortunately some of these types of funding has as many strings
attached to it than the RFP's themselves.
Regards,
Dawn DiPietro
Peter R. wrote:
Most RFP's I have reviewed including Atlanta are hot for someone to
come in and give away free wi-fi, especially to schools and the
Thats the big thing government forgets to realize, that the costly part of
FREE wifi to deliver is End user infrastructure and support, not deployment
of the transport network. Thats why I believe many Government projects will
not be successful. I can give you a perfect example. I almost had
All,
As quoted from the article;
“The competitive impacts of municipal broadband will be especially
threatening to incumbents to the extent that muni nets can be cost-
justified
by increased efficiencies, cost savings and other ‘internal’ or social
benefits captured by local governments,
Most RFP's I have reviewed including Atlanta are hot for someone to come
in and give away free wi-fi, especially to schools and the under-served
sections of town.
There are a couple of problems:
1) How do you monetize that?
2) Most of the under-served don't have computers
The only real
http://www.telecommagazine.com/newsglobe/article.asp?HH_ID=AR_2244
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