 | | Making Magazines Worth Buying: Magazines That Play Video um...you know what I am thinking...Please Hef, just don't add sound... | |
| Reviews:
 ·Verizon FiOS
| FailPoint should not be granted anything ... ..until they fix the mess they've made first!
Workers aren't getting paid OT
Customers are not getting service
CapGemini has no idea how to code databases for telco operations
And NO Bonuses...the former CEO should be sued...
I could go on. But then, IT'S FRIDAY and I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT!  | |
|  |  tschmidtPremium,MVM
join:2000-11-12
Milford, NH
kudos:4
 ·Fairpoint Commun..
 ·Hollis Hosting
| Re: FailPoint should not be granted anything ... I had mixed emotions when I read the article.
On the one hand anything that expands broadband coverage to unserved areas it good.
On the other the whole idea of Verizon sale to Fairpoint was that Fairpoint's business model was optimized for rural areas. They were supposed to be able to fund broadband expansion on their own.
I did a quick check of the numbers. If they expand service by 30,800 customers for $37.8 million that comes to $1,200 per customer. I assume that will go toward building out Remote Terminals and fiber back haul.
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| | | iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
 ·Comcast
·Verizon Online DSL
| Re: FailPoint should not be granted anything ... $1200 per customer is very spendy for DSL. Honestly, some sort of wireless solution would be a better way to spend the money unless customers absolutely couldn't get line of sight. Wireless would allow for faster download speeds than tired old ADSL, for one thing...
If on the other hand we're talking about fiber (highly doubt it), $1200 per customer is a great deal and Fairpoint should go ahead with it. | |
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| | Apple Patent Application From the Register article about the Apple patent:
Interestingly, the filing also describes a scenario in which the initiating device can "extend internet access (eg Wi-Fi) to other wireless devices in the vicinity. For example, [the] mobile device... can be configured as a base station for one or more devices."
In other words, internet tethering - an iPhone Software 3.0 capability that AT&T has yet to implement for iPhone customers in the US.
Windows Mobile has the ability to act as a wireless router, and has had it for awhile now.
Unless there is some special radio in the IPhone, wouldn't any phone that can run multiple aps simultaneously do the same thing? My WinMo phone can surf the internet, and make and receive calls at the same time, so yheoritically it should be able to send info concurrently. | |
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