You ever notice that most of the ISP's that are still around started around 1994-95?? After that the market got too tight. If you want to do Wireless you need to get in soon before the train leaves the station so to speak. Jon > On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:52:01PM -0500, Austad, Jay wrote: > > Actually, that's exactly it. We wouldn't necessarily get getting in > > on the ground floor since there are a couple of other ISP's here in > > town that do this (Implex.net and sbwireless.net (or .com or .org, I > > forget which)). Even so, if we have an existing infrastructure when > > AOL/TW/Intel/whatever comes in, there's always the possibility to > > sell it to them rather than be put out of business. > > Funny. > > Ground floor doesn't mean instant money, profitability, or that you > win in the long run. > > I started Winternet - where is it now? Where is VISI.com now? > > Hell, almost all of the ISPs that started after Winternet are larger > (or they are out of business or absorbed by the borg). > > > However, given the amount of freedom that AOL/TW/ATT Broadband > > current gives their customers, it would likely be very easy to > > compete against them. Just don't modify people's traffic, don't > > block anything, let them run servers, provide static IP's, and > > provide tiered service levels. All of these things are an > > improvement over ATT Broadband's shitty network, and if ATT came in > > and offered wireless, it's probably safe to say it's going to suck > > just as much as their cable modem service does. > > Uhm, the cable companies have announced plans to cap bandwidth. > > Unless you pay the fees, running servers is a no-no, period, on the > networks you talk about above. > > -- > Mike Horwath IRC: Drechsau drechsau at Geeks.ORG > Home: 763-540-6815 1901 Sumter Ave N, Golden Valley, MN 55427 > Opinions stated in this message, or any message posted by myself > through my Geeks.ORG address, are mine and mine alone, period. > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.tcwug.org tcwug-list at tcwug.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list