In the call, they said they'd ultimately shoot for an AP within a 5-minute walk of anyone in urban America and a 5-minute drive in rural America. I'm hoping they'd qualify this statement a bit more, lest they leave many not believing from the get-go (perhaps they really meant a 5-minute drive in *suburban* America? Or can I expect the 'rural' service then to also mean Montana, or even Calif's Central Valley or upstate NY where it's a long drive to get between places?)
That said, I'm bullish on the Cometa concept, now that we know it's no longer just a rumor. Plenty of businesses and would-be hosting venues have held off on Wi-Fi strategies due to mandates they have regarding the backgrounds of their vendors. Not a lot has yet been revealed, but if it lives up to what it says, Cometa's partner makeup may be what it takes to win key deals. -Ken -------------------------------------------- Kenneth Berger LogX Technologies 350 Union Street, Suite 520 San Francisco, California 94133 +1 415 982 4414 (direct) +1 415 533 5300 (mobile) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://logxtech.com -------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- Moebius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sat in on the investor call for Cometa.. Cometa aims to deploy 20k access points in the United States by sometime in 2004. They used a metric of having an access point within 5 minutes of anyone in the United States (it was a little more complicated, but that was the gist). They will not offer services to individuals, but will resell the network to ISPs and others who will drive usage to it. In otherwords they will be a wholesaler of access with others determining how to market, bill, etc. for the usage. -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
