At 8/14/2010 02:35 AM, RickG wrote:
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on who you were) that same
outcome has not happened for other races in similar situations in
mankind's past history. Maybe there wasn't enough lawyers back in
the ancient days? So, in the modern era, it's no longer "only the
strong survive" but rather, only the best lawyer survives?
I made a one-paragraph quip in response to another, and the thread
went off kilter, so I'm avoiding those side issues now like the plague...
No matter, it would be interesting to be involved with a tribal roll
out of a high end network.
Indeed. The first time I used RadioMobile was several years ago,
when the local (Indian) ISP from a tribe in the plains region
inquired about putting up a wireless network across the
reservation. The total population density was about one person per
square mile, with a couple of small towns. Most of the reservation's
phone service, mainly the biggest town, came from an off-reservation
coop and the Indians didn't like them. So we talked about building a
WISP network with a CLEC to deliver wireless local loop. The
reservation was basically flat with not many trees, ideal wireless
country. SkyPilot boxes would have given a 10-mile radius between
hops. He would own it; I would be his consultant.
But then he stopped returning calls. Another tribe's telco had won
700 MHz licenses in the first (2002) auction, and was doing wireless
DOCSIS, and had this guy's reservation in their footprint. So they
became the WISP. I assume it's working, since the FCC web site last
year showed them inquiring if they would meet the build-out deadline,
or lose the license, and they said that they had it up and running on time.
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Fred Goldstein
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
At 8/13/2010 04:15 PM, lakeland wrote:
>Hmmmmm. How do you become a soverign nation?
Well, you start by having a big country. Then you get invaded and
settled by people with better weapons, and diseases that wipe out 90%
of your population. Then wars are fought which kill more of them and
take away more land, settled with treaties supposedly guaranteeing
them sovereignty on at least limited land. Then the survivors are
forced off their land, at least all of the good land, into deserts
and small reservations, where they're mistreated for another
century. Finally they get good lawyers and lobbyists and open casinos.
>Sounds like its a lot better than being a WISP or an Integrator. :-)
When you add it all up, I don't really think so. :-(
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