Travis Johnson wrote:
Hi,
Maybe you need to read my posts a little better... I think I have said
it twice already, but I will say it again:
I am not after Google, nor am I saying they are "evil". What I am
saying is there is a grand plan already in place with this 700mhz
auction they are considering. They have the money and the means to do
just about anything they want with it. We just need to keep our eyes
open. The telco's already own a great deal of spectrum, so another
20mhz really isn't going to matter much. They don't know what they are
doing, why would it change now?
The ILECs have been building the POTS network since 1900. They are not
incompetent and they understand how to buy power.
And, I'll say it again... The telco's don't scare me. Qwest offers
$19.95 DSL packages right now... our cheapest wireless plan is $39.95,
yet we continue to take people away from Qwest. Will I ever be as big
as they are? No. But I will continue to pick up the people that HATE
the telco and cableco, and that business alone will keep me in
business for a long, long time. ;)
That is exactly what we do here... We are a Canopy house and we
routinely take customers from both cable and our ILEC. You are right
about being in business for a long time. We are thinking in terms of
our grand children. I do understand your point. Ten, even twenty years
is going to work in rural situations.
We understand the phone company sold you DSL for twice what it sold to
the customer... but again, why does that matter here? The day they
started doing that was the same day you should have been installing
wireless to all of your existing customers.
You think like we did.
We have had Qwest literally take a customer away from us while all
three of us were conferenced on a call for support. That is against
their company policy, especially when we called their "safe line" for
ISP's. But there isn't a damn thing you can do about it, so you just
move on. :)
Well, enough. Move along from Google. You have larger issues to
concern yourself with.
-m-
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