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Michieru2
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reply to FightingBlue
Re: Rollout won't begin until 2007

Uhm, yes it does cost to distribute, because you need to buy the equipment to do so. Which is why we need router's, which is why we need switches, anything internally is based on distribution and when you consider a citywide WiFi network costs rise.

So while it does not cost to reproduce, to distribute there are costs. Plus when you consider hundreds if not thousands of users using this WiFi network your going to need a real fat pipe. It might look small when you look at one user, but when you look at the whole picture it will actually cost you.

Plus there not demanding any tolls, they are just going to show you advertisement, etc. Not every ISP is out there is evil. Plus T1's go into the $400 range I don't know where did you get those numbers.


FightingBlue

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"Uhm, yes it does cost to distribute, because you need to buy the equipment to do so."

No, that's build-out. I'm talking about bandwidth. Even if you amortized the cost of build-out into the service, you'd still be talking about fractions of a penny on the dollar compared to what the big ISPs charge. And the main build-out, the important high-bandwidth connections, have been paid for a thousand times over, and a thousand times again.

"Plus T1's go into the $400 range I don't know where did you get those numbers."

I got them from the lowest quote to run a T1 to one of my potential tower sites.
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