Who said the buyer had to be ATT? By the way, ATT bought Wayport, a wifi company. It didn;t make sense for ATT to upgrade infrastruvcture and take Wayport's market, when all they had to do is inject investment into the engine and share in the profits. Allthoguh Wayport was more of a LAN than a WAN company, it does show private wireless companies can be attractive to RBOC.
Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert West" <robert.w...@just-micro.com> To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 1:07 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] just attended broadband stimulus seminar and WOW..... > But I don't really envision AT&T coming to me and cashing me out. What I > see is them upgrading their infrastructure and taking the market. They > already have presence in our areas with cellular. I don't see think they > will care one bit about most of us small time operators. If we had a much > bigger presence and were able to compete on the same national level that > they can, maybe. But as it is, we're just the small time pizza joint down > the street that Pizza Hut opened across from offering items at half price. > Well, until the small time joint closes. Then it's full price from then > on.............. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of David E. Smith > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:23 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] just attended broadband stimulus seminar and WOW..... > > Robert West wrote: >> Why should [big companies] invest >> their cash in building a market when we can do it for them and once it's >> about ripe, they can just walk in and pick it? We need to do what we can > to >> protect our little piece of the pie somehow. > > A small entrepreneur sees an opportunity, builds something that lots of > people want, makes some money from it, then a larger company buys it and > makes said entrepreneur filthy rich (or at least better-off than he > was). The customers win (they get the benefit of the new network > regardless of who built it), the guy that just cashed out wins, the > bigger company that buys the network wins (they presumably see profit > potential or else they wouldn't buy). I thought this sort of > sweat-equity-for-cash tradeoff was basically the American dream. > > I don't see this being a bad thing for anyone involved. > > David Smith > MVN.net > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
