Walmart would need to own spectrum to make this work. Otherwise, anyone who wanted to disrupt the
service could park in the lot at the Walmart and interfere with all 'uplink' packets at that Walmart.
game over, insert quarter
jim
On Aug 10, 2004, at 7:44 AM, Ray Steding wrote:
Except that 50 United Methodist Churches in LA are likely available now to
be used in support of a Public Media wireless network. As well as
thousands of businesses, Presbyterian Churches, Uniterian Churches etc.
These organizations and businesses are ready now. The cost of the
infrastructure and the backbone is what is missing. But those items are
not difficult problems to resolve.
Going forward ahead of the Walmarts as a consortium of technologists with
the backing of influential businesses and organizations seems to be to our
advantage.
Likely, once the Walmarts see the writing on the wall they will back off.
At least their investors will.
Ray
http://www.dansherman.com/2004/06/walmart-communications-look- into.html
" Imagine this scenario... Walmart adds capacity to their already
notorious
bandwidth coming into their stores (that they use for their data links)
and
sets up Wi-Max points of presence at each of their stores. Because they
would be buying all this bandwidth in bulk (every Walmart in America) they
could get the best bandwidth price than anyone else in the US and then
hook
people up via Wi-Max to these point's of presence."
http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=100964
http://blogger.iftf.org/Future/000484.html
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