The investors don't know why it won't work. They just see the speeds
possible and dream about 80g advertising.
On Sat, Jul 7, 2018, 12:27 <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
> I just find it crazy that these VC houses don’t have a single cynical RF
> engineer on tap to advise them on deals like this.
> I used to do that job for a smaller VC banker in a previous life.
>
> I shot down every single presentation I remember except one:
> A company wanted to buy the rights to an abandoned pipeline (water, sewer
> something, cannot remember) between Philadelphia and Manhattan (as I
> recall) a company wanted to blow a fiber down it.
>
> This was about 1998.
> I told them to go full steam ahead on that project.
>
> The banker rejected it.
>
> *From:* Bill Prince
> *Sent:* Saturday, July 7, 2018 11:09 AM
> *To:* af@af.afmug.com
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Starry raises $100M for 802.11-based fixed
> wireless rollout | FierceWireless
>
>
> Anyone remember MetroFi? I do. We got a couple of nice Dragonwaves when
> they went bankrupt.
>
>
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
>
> On 7/7/2018 8:28 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:
>
> A C series of financing... that means they have already blown all the seed
> round, series A and series B money.
>
> And they are just re-packaging the same tired old idea. Google Fiber
> morphed into one of these... did it ever amount to anything?
>
> I am totally cynical. I don’t believe in these mm bands for PMP.
> Range and weather are always going to be a problem.
>
> Use the $100M to build fiber instead.
>
> *From:* Jaime Solorza
> *Sent:* Saturday, July 07, 2018 9:16 AM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
> *Subject:* [AFMUG] Starry raises $100M for 802.11-based fixed wireless
> rollout | FierceWireless
>
>
> https://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/starry-raises-100m-for-802-11-based-fixed-wireless-rollout
> Jaime Solorza
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