There are WISP consolidation companies out there.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert West" <robert.w...@just-micro.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 2:23 PM To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] just attended broadband stimulus seminar and WOW..... > 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: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] 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" <robert.w...@just-micro.com> > To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> > 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: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] 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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