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Re: And I DON'T want to see them said by pfak:May I ask, are you even a property owner? Here's a dumb question: Why doesn't AT&T compensate the property owners somehow?
When I was working in the WISP business we deployed over a dozen "mini-POPs" (mini point of presence) to reach customers that didn't have a good line of sight to one of our main POPs. We built them out of small sheds and usually offered the property owner free internet access if he was willing to let us place one on his property. We figured that giving away free service to one customer was worthwhile if we got ten paying customers out of the deal. I'm guessing that these boxes serve more than 10 customers and that the ratio would be a lot more favorable for AT&T if they were to attempt a solution like this.
Of course I don't pretend that a solution that worked for a small company with 2,000 customers would scale well for an outfit the size of AT&T -- but this attitude of "Bend over, there's nothing you can do to stop us" is the reason why everybody hates the phone company. Surely there is a better way they could go about this? |
 KoolMoeAw ManPremium
join:2001-02-14
Annapolis, MD | TOTALLY agree and I've said the same thing. I'm not sure why I'm amazed that whatever company doesn't offer the inconvenienced homeowner free, or at least discounted, services in exchange As you say, one freebie for many payers?
Surely...
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