What you all seem to have forgotten..... the big companies don't want the stimulus money. It requires them to open themselves up to the SAME level of INSANE TRANSPARENCY that any other grant applicant would have.
They reject the money for the same exact reasons you all are. Therefore.... please .... sit down and shut up :) Robert West wrote: > AT&T was just an example. I'm sure someone will be purchased but if > anything I see it as one company buying up and consolidating smaller > companies to make one big network. But even with that, I still see the > cellular companies trumping it all. They already have the basic > infrastructure, the financing, the political muscle and even the > frequencies. I'm not saying to jump ship, it's just good to keep an eye out > and play "what if" in order to survive. For me anyway. If they erode the > market, we just have to come up with other products and more innovative > things to offer that they can't. :) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Tom DeReggi > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 3:10 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] just attended broadband stimulus seminar and WOW..... > > Who said the buyer had to be ATT? By the way, ATT bought Wayport, a wifi > company. It didn;t make sense for ATT to upgrade infrastruvcture and take > Wayport's market, when all they had to do is inject investment into the > engine and share in the profits. Allthoguh Wayport was more of a LAN than a > > WAN company, it does show private wireless companies can be attractive to > RBOC. > > > > > Tom DeReggi > RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc > IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert West" <[email protected]> > To: "'WISPA General List'" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 1:07 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] just attended broadband stimulus seminar and WOW..... > > >> But I don't really envision AT&T coming to me and cashing me out. What I >> see is them upgrading their infrastructure and taking the market. They >> already have presence in our areas with cellular. I don't see think they >> will care one bit about most of us small time operators. If we had a much >> bigger presence and were able to compete on the same national level that >> they can, maybe. But as it is, we're just the small time pizza joint down >> the street that Pizza Hut opened across from offering items at half price. >> Well, until the small time joint closes. Then it's full price from then >> on.............. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of David E. Smith >> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:23 PM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] just attended broadband stimulus seminar and WOW..... >> >> Robert West wrote: >>> Why should [big companies] invest >>> their cash in building a market when we can do it for them and once it's >>> about ripe, they can just walk in and pick it? We need to do what we can >> to >>> protect our little piece of the pie somehow. >> A small entrepreneur sees an opportunity, builds something that lots of >> people want, makes some money from it, then a larger company buys it and >> makes said entrepreneur filthy rich (or at least better-off than he >> was). The customers win (they get the benefit of the new network >> regardless of who built it), the guy that just cashed out wins, the >> bigger company that buys the network wins (they presumably see profit >> potential or else they wouldn't buy). I thought this sort of >> sweat-equity-for-cash tradeoff was basically the American dream. >> >> I don't see this being a bad thing for anyone involved. >> >> David Smith >> MVN.net >> >> >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> WISPA Wants You! 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