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...actually operating any of these "deals" yet?
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| said by RadioDoc  :...actually operating any of these "deals" yet? I don't think any have rolled out yet. And Earthlink, while truly desperate to maintain a customer base, may be slitting their own throats by agreeing to pay to build out a system and then have to provide access to their competitors. Maybe they are doing these deals hoping that some bigger company(Rupert Murdoch) will buy them out later.
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| Actually earthlink will sell to competitors but at thier cost. So it doesn't cost earthlink a penny to sell to competition. The general idea is basically to replace the dialup subscribers with wifi subscribers. The total cost per subscriber is about the same as a dialup infrastructure provided you get enough customers per base station. In reality all they need is about 4 monthly paying customers per base station to make a profit on an adsl setup. 10 for a SDSL setup The idea is sound. Margin is good. Once everyone in the world moves to wifi Earthlink will be sitting on a gold mine of customers. |
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From: »www.earthlink.net/wifi/
Its listed as currently available in Anaheim for $17.95; uploads and downloads up to 1Mbps.
Philly, Nawlins, and Milipitas "coming soon."
Frisco "plans underway."
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| said by mr sean :From: » www.earthlink.net/wifi/Its listed as currently available in Anaheim for $17.95; uploads and downloads up to 1Mbps. Philly, Nawlins, and Milipitas "coming soon." Frisco "plans underway." Small part of Anaheim is covered. Only a few square blocks. But they do have plans to expand by year end.
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| they're not going anywhere
earthlink isn't going anywhere. They make plenty of money from reselling Time warner, and baby bell dsl. Last time i check they get 15 bucks out of 41.95(monthly fee) for every twc connection sold thru earthlink for doing pretty much nothing except email support. |
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Re: Are they...
I hope the opposite in that Earthlink finds operating the infrastructure and selling access to competitors to be a successful model. In fact, I hope they eventually drop the services option entirely, or split it off.
A separation of services and infrastructure would solve so many problems. But cool enough to see how this works out for now.
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Re: they're not going anywhere
Agreed ! Earthlink is chasing "muni wireless deals" in an attempt to get them off the street and then they will sell their business before it goes "poof" around a "blue-sky value" of these (un-built) networks and an un-proven business plan. If you look at their actual business plan, the numbers (take rates and ramp-up) it will never ever work. These guys are drinking bad water and smoking bad weed! Earthlink will be a dead company in under three years in my opinion. |
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