On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Robert Liu wrote: > 1) Read the Philadelphia business plan. If you are an ISP, > municipalities like Philly are building a vibrant marketplace for you to > sell your service. The city is the wholesaler...not the retailer. In that case, I have no problem. If the city provides free "transport" service to the ISP of your choice, and not the end-user service, that's fine by me.
But that's *not* what the cities which actually *have* done the wireless broadband have done, so your argument is specious. > 2) Again, read the plan. No tax dollars are used. Even the bonds are > taxed, not tax exempt. I wish I could have unconditional guarantee backed by tax revenues (HINT: the only reason people buy bonds is because of that guarantee) in order to expand. Certainly beats having to borrow money against my house! > 5) Cities like Philly aren't fighting the building of new towers. > They aren't funding it making it much more costly for the wholesale > venders. But they certainly aren't opposing it. Sure they are. Try to put up a wireless tower in your community, and see how complicated the approval process is, how retarded people are with regards to "eyesores", etc. -alex -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
