Good point, Butch. Well said. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
----- Original Message ----- From: "Butch Evans" <but...@butchevans.com> To: <sarn...@info-ed.com>; "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:42 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] From Today's WSJ > On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 13:29 -0600, Scottie Arnett wrote: >> If they are giving them some form of subsidy to build these >> networks, then I think we should have access to use it too. > > This is the wrong way to view it, though. I'm not looking to argue the > point, but want to address this in a slightly different way. Let's take > an area called ruralville, us. In Ruralville, there is a population of > 1000 citizens who earn an average of $22k/year. If there were no high > speed options in ruralville, would YOU build a network there? I know I > would. Especially if I carried the backhaul in from a larger network. > Would you require someone else to pay for the gear, or could you make > the numbers work for that area? I know I could make the numbers work. > > NOW...the question is: If it is feasible to make it work without a > subsidy, WHY SHOULD ANYONE GET ONE FOR THAT AREA? > > In my mind, it's not about "if they get one, I want one, too". It is > more along the line of "if I don't NEED one, neither do they". > > -- > ******************************************************************** > * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* > * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * > * http://store.wispgear.net/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * > * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * ImageStream, Mikrotik and MORE! * > ******************************************************************** > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
