I think he's saying that no one has tried hard enough to do it in every part... People like Chuck are here and there, but few are putting forth the serious amount of effort to make it happen.
I think in the years coming, the average WISP will be significantly larger than they are now... not through organic growth, but through acquisition. Within a 1 hour's drive from me there's at least a half dozen WISPs with customer counts in the thousands. I believe one has 5k and another has 7k. In my area, a WISP with 500 customers should have fiber into the carrier hotels. Perhaps in south eastern MO, a WISP would need to have 5k customers to make the haul to St. Louis or Memphis... Actually, bad example, there's dark fiber available between St. Louis and Memphis.... though I forget it's exact path in your area. My point is that companies will start consolidating to both be able to take advantage of those fiber routes and once they have the fiber, to put more cash in their pockets. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Butch Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 10:36 PM To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information > On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Chuck McCown - 3 wrote: > >>Check out Garrison Utah or Burbank Nevada. Doesn't get much more >>rural than that. Of course I have spent the most part of the last >>20 years slowly building a fiber and microwave network to get to >>all these areas. > > 1. I never said that you can't get those kinds of access for > reasonable prices in ANY part of rural America. > > 2. You are quoting "micro economics" in a "macro economics" > discussion. Put another way, you are using personal experience > under the assumption that it somehow relates to the "rest of the > world"...it doesn't. > > > > -- > ******************************************************************** > * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* > * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * > * http://www.wispa.org/ * WISPA Board Member * > * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * > ******************************************************************** > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
