Does network TV make money by entertaining or informing people?
In the long run, it's not about providing access. It's about
location-aware delivery of marketing/intelligence (ads, offers,
tracking, etc) via mobile devices.
On 1/31/2012 9:45 AM, Tom DeReggi wrote:
Yes, a typical tactic for the sole purpose to destroy the RF
environment, and scare high ARPU businesses and investors from
trusting third party unlicensed wireless providers solutions.
Its all about fear factor.
But Just like any other large scale MUNI network, it wont work, and
will be to costly to maintain, and the bad press will incourage the
Cable Cos to shut down the networks instead of continueing to damage
their brand's reputation as a quality high speed resildential
provider. They can plan to deploy 10,000 nodes, but planning has no
value if there is no where to put/mount them. Maybe they could mount
them inside people's homes :-) Surely, they aren't going to work
mounted on their tiny green 2ft pedestals on every corner. Surely,
they aren't going to pay landlords $200/month each to mount on 10,000
commercial building roofs. What they more likely would do is go put in
Wifi access points into the communities that they do not want to dig
up the streets and bring cable to, that the City/states are trying to
force them to do with cable, leveraging the franchise agreement
renegotiations. A attitude like, get off my back, why spend $5000 to
dig, when I can spend $200 on an access point and pretend we serve
everyone, and make it a play on all the lobbying WISPs did to say,
"wireless is good enough" for WISPs, so it must also be good enough
for Cable Cos. I could easilly see Comcast applying for USF, and using
Wireless combined with Cable.
>Time Warner is planning I believe around 10,000 node in the LA market
this year and after they get that market proven, they plan on rolling
out nationwide in their markets
Except the market wont be proven successful. Funny how history
repeats itself.
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Brian Webster <mailto:[email protected]>
*To:* 'WISPA General List' <mailto:[email protected]> ;
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:16 PM
*Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Ericsson is buying BelAir, betting on Wi-Fi
It's not just the cellular industry. Comcast is deploying 18,000
outdoor wi-fi nodes this year and giving that service for free to
their customers to keep them happy in a mobile environment and
reduce churn. Time Warner is planning I believe around 10,000 node
in the LA market this year and after they get that market proven,
they plan on rolling out nationwide in their markets. The networks
are specifically being designed for tablets and wi-fi enabled
phones in a nomadic but not seamless mobile environment. Being
that the cable companies who sold spectrum to Verizon for 3.5
billion dollars, they are using some of that money for these
deployments.
For those in those metro markets, these carriers are planning both
2.4 and 5 GHz dual mode radios.
Thank You,
Brian Webster
www.wirelessmapping.com <http://www.wirelessmapping.com>
www.Broadband-Mapping.com
*From:*[email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Jack Unger
*Sent:* Thursday, January 26, 2012 12:00 PM
*To:* "[email protected]" w; WISPA General List
*Subject:* [WISPA] Ericsson is buying BelAir, betting on Wi-Fi
In a sure sign that the cellular industry is getting serious about
Wi-Fi, telecom networking giant Ericsson is buying BelAir
Networks, adding its high-performance outdoor hotspot technology
to its portfolio, sources told GigaOM. The deal could signal a big
shift in the mindset of the big wireless vendors, which have
always favored their own specialized and expensive cellular
technologies to meet growing mobile data demand rather than more
generic but much cheaper Wi-Fi tech...
<http://gigaom.com/broadband/ericsson-pursuing-wi-fi-with-belair-networks-buy/>
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Author (2003) - "Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks"
Serving the WISP Community since 1993
www.ask-wi.com <http://www.ask-wi.com> [email protected]
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