Well, me too, but I'm willing to pay for something better than AOL. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Dustin Goodwin > Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 7:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: nycwireless@lists.nycwireless.net > Subject: Re: [nycwireless] Not sure about muni-Wifi? Read > this from the SBC chief > > > Just go ahead and turn the Internet off if you can only connect me to > the AOLized version of it. > > - Dustin - > > Jim Henry wrote: > > >You can't argue with that. They invest hundreds of millions > of dollars > >in transport and need to get their ROI. > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > >>Of Dustin Goodwin > >>Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 2:40 PM > >>To: nycwireless@lists.nycwireless.net > >>Subject: [nycwireless] Not sure about muni-Wifi? Read this > >>from the SBC chief > >> > >> > >>Please never tell me again there is no need for an > >>alternative to the > >>Cable/Bell broadband duopoloy. / > >> > >>"If there were any delusions that Ma Bell Wasn't Back > >><http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/27/1635247&tid= > 215>, SBC > >>CEO Edward Witacre has cleared that up in an interview > >><http://www.businessweek.com/@@n34h*IUQu7KtOwgA/magazine/conte > >>nt/05_45/b3958092.htm> > >>with Business Week Online. When asked about Google, Vonage > and other > >>Internet Upstarts he responded in typical Ma Bell Style: > 'How do you > >>think they're going to get to customers? Through a broadband > >>pipe. Cable > >>companies have them. We have them. Now what they would like > >>to do is use > >>my pipes free, but I ain't going to let them do that > because we have > >>spent this capital and we have to have a return on it. So > >>there's going > >>to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these > >>pipes to pay > >>for the portion they're using. Why should they be allowed to use my > >>pipes?'." > >> > >>- Dustin - > >> > >>/ > >>-- > >>NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > >>Un/Subscribe: > >>http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > >>Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > >> > >> > >> > >>-- > >>No virus found in this incoming message. > >>Checked by AVG Free Edition. > >>Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.6/152 - Release > >>Date: 10/31/2005 > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > Un/Subscribe: > http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.6/152 - Release > Date: 10/31/2005 > >
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