n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
 ·Optimum Online
| Service Provider?
Of course my question is why any of them have to pay the MTA anything at all. The providers are paying for the infrastructure and the upkeep. It sounds like a tribute payment to the MTA for nothing more than the right to run the wires you are already paying for. I would be interested to see who the first provider will be to sign up with Transit Wireless. If none of the major providers want to sign up then it could be some very expensive dead air underground or the roaming charges to the major carriers will be horrendous.
--
I support the right to keep and arm bears. |
|
Network Guy
join:2000-08-25
New York
 ·PHONE POWER
·Broadvox Direct
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| Uh, maybe for the right for Transit Wireless to do business within MTA's premises? Sort of the same way all major carriers are paying an increasing number of building owners around the city to install communications equipment atop tall residential buildings? |
|
insomniac
Oh Yeah
Premium
join:2002-09-22
Naperville, IL
clubs: | Exactly - it's a lease. Similarly, US Cellular paid $2.9 million for a 10-year lease to deploy its CDMA network in the Chicago subway tunnels.
--
If everything seems to be going well, you've obviously overlooked something. |
|
