Todd Boyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well, a CWN is not a global internet, it is a local apparatus >that has an upstream (the internet gateways, which must be >paid for) and it has a downstream (users of gateways and >routes to reach them) and there is not going to be any CWN >unless USERS are willing to pay a few bucks.
So the NoCat people should build a PayPal subscription system into NoCatAuth? Or we all just use one of the commercial roaming systems like Boingo/Joltage? [1] The too free to bill approach actually makes quite a lot of sense in several scenarios. - So few people use my node that I won't bother. Anyway I'd pay for the bandwidth anyway for my own use so it's not costing me anything extra. - I'll just mark it up to advertising. I've only got to sell 3 extra coffees a day to cover it and I'll use the bandwidth myself in the evening anyway. Where it might be a pain is in the first scenario except that your location means that there are 10s of people using it all the time. [1]There is a trick here that Boingo-Joltage have spotted and somebody will make work, which is the global roaming system for the rest of us on an MLM-franchise model. The T-Mobile-Starbucks-BT Openzone approach is very capital intensive and will never get universal coverage. But some tie up between a Telco and hardware-software manufacturers might be able to put a package together where the operator made money as well. So who's M$ going to partner with then? -- Julian Bond Email&MSM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webmaster: http://www.ecademy.com/ Personal WebLog: http://www.voidstar.com/ CV/Resume: http://www.voidstar.com/cv/ M: +44 (0)77 5907 2173 T: +44 (0)192 0412 433 -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
