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join:2000-05-11 | Are they... ...actually operating any of these "deals" yet?
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| Re: Are they... said by RadioDoc  :...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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| Re: Are they... 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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Decatur, GA | Re: Are they... I really wish they would work out a muni-fi for their hometown, Atlanta. Ah, but the wonders of living in Bellsouth country tells me that probably won't happen anytime soon. | |
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join:2001-01-13
Brooklyn, NY
| they're not going anywhere earthlink isn't going anywhere. They make plenty of money from reselling Time warner, and baby bell dsl. Last time i check they get 15 bucks out of 41.95(monthly fee) for every twc connection sold thru earthlink for doing pretty much nothing except email support. | |
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Oak Creek, WI
| Re: they're not going anywhere Agreed ! Earthlink is chasing "muni wireless deals" in an attempt to get them off the street and then they will sell their business before it goes "poof" around a "blue-sky value" of these (un-built) networks and an un-proven business plan. If you look at their actual business plan, the numbers (take rates and ramp-up) it will never ever work. These guys are drinking bad water and smoking bad weed! Earthlink will be a dead company in under three years in my opinion. | |
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Earthlink Scores Another Muni-Fi Deal
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