Kill-all-the-telcos!! It'll be great to see it when it does come though. Best, Aaron
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 00:21 -0400, Jon Carnes wrote: > On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 21:06, Aaron Bockover wrote: > > Okay, so Raleigh just isn't full of open WiFi hot-spots, and it'd really > > be nice to have wireless broadband. Is anyone subscribed to such a > > service? Does one really even exist yet in this area? > > > > I tried signing up for the free Nextel Wireless Broadband trial last > > year, but didn't get accepted. It's been a year, the trial is over, and > > it doesn't look like they've rolled the service out publicly. > > > > Verizon has wireless broadband, but Raleigh isn't one of its supported > > cities. > > > > Are we just that insignificant? I would really hate to have to start > > using my cellphone for dial-up... that's just asinine! > > > > Best, > > Aaron > > > There are a couple of folks *trying* to do wireless in Raleigh. > Unfortunately Bell owns all the reserved spectrum here and has just been > sitting on it. The few companies doing the Public spectrum are stuck > because no one will fund them with the specter of Bell looming over them > (and doing nothing)... > > That's why places like Johnson County have Wireless DSL and Raleigh > doesn't. > > It will get here though. My company is currently partnering (or about to > partner) with a big provider that is East of here. If that is successful > then we will be bringing them into Fuquay and Apex as an alternate > provider for our VoIP offering. > > Jon Carnes > FeatureTel > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
