I had a VC guy call me about BelAir networks idea of putting APs on poles
and flooding hotels or schools with 2.4GHz years ago....He didn't
understand RF at all...
Jaime Solorza
On Sat, Jul 7, 2018, 2:06 PM Lewis Bergman <lewis.berg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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