Mr. Liu, while i personally appreciate your insights and expertise, please consider being gracious. its a pretty hectic world out there so i want to keep my inbox as peaceful as possible. looking forward to more detailed comments from you soon. thanks. bob
On 4/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/ > -- Robert Q Kim, Wireless Internet Advisor http://evdo-coverage.com http://wireless-internet-broadband-service.com http://hsdpa-coverage.com 2611 S. Pacific Coast Highway 101 Suite 102 Cardiff by the Sea, CA 92007 206 984 0880 -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
