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...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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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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