| Segman, Cable companies did not pay for this study. Anyone who wants to see it has to pay for it. JupiterResearch is not a think tank funded by industry players -- it lives and dies on the accuracy of its research, for which it has a solid reputation.
The Jupiter Research report, as well as the Yankee Group report issued in May (also trashed by some "true believers") are not knee-jerk anti-muni and actually offer roadmaps to successful municipal deployments. They offer sound advice if you were just smart enough to see it.
I'm no fan of municipal networks, and in the long run I do think they are money pits that financially strapped cites can ill afford. Saying so makes me a "sock puppet."
But I guess if Jupiter's in the same fold, it's not bad company. Stupid, ignorant remarks like yours, which reveal the blind fanaticism of municipal wireless supporters and their utter intolerance for any challenge to the economic premises behind their "government-wi-fi-for-all" doctrine, works better than any number of pages of think tank analysis. Go ahead, Segman, keep ranting. Make my day! |
