Hello David, In this case the context was last mile connections, and there is usually very little if any profit in for non-monopolies that can't enforce whatever rates they please onto end users... Seriously how many small ISPs are rolling out mass amounts of DSLAMs for home user use, that aren't likely to go belly up in the next 1 to 2 yrs, in recent times the numbers of ISPs have been consolidated, or they just vanish... WISPs are a very good example of my point, most are looking at hotspots, specifically where corporate users are most likely to be, expensive hotels, airports, over priced burnt coffee etc :)
I foresee that most places listed above (well maybe not airports) but certainly hotels and coffee houses are likely to offer free wireless in the years to come as a competitive advantage in the market... If you had the choice of 2 hotels, 1 offering free internet, even if only modem speed, and the other didn't have internet or was $2/minute or something equally ridiculous, and all other things equal, which would you choose? Sure it's not as much of a concern at present as the only ones with wireless are corporate or early adapters, but the market will play catch up, you only have to look at Intels future plans to include wireless actually inside the CPU to see what the likely out come of that is going to be... Competitive edge = benefit for home user type consumers again, everything for nothing mentality... I'm not saying it's right, wrong or indifferent merely pointing out the obvious... And now I'll get off my soap box :) -- Best regards, evilbunny mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cacert.org - Free Security Certificates http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 1:43:35 PM, you wrote: DPR> At 01:00 AM 12/3/2002 +1100, evilbunny wrote: >>ROI = milk the corporate customers... everyone knows there's virtually >>no money in home users, they want everything for nothing... unless >>you're super large and have economies of scale... or reselling >>someone's product that does, there's no money in it... DPR> Which is why you want solutions the home users can manage themselves, and DPR> deploy themselves. These are called "consumer products", which Sony, for DPR> example makes lots of money on. DPR> I always find "there's no money in it..." to mean that the seller can't DPR> conceive of meeting the customers needs, and instead wants to force feed DPR> the customers stuff they don't really want. DPR> Corporate customers are used to being force-fed, will spend lots of money DPR> on stuff because budget size = status and ego. Such customers are DPR> non-economic, though they like to use words like ROI to impress their boss DPR> that they aren't wasting money (which they often are - remember all the DPR> money spent on Y2K "fixes").
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