An "OFFLIST" would be good, as I am sometimes daft and occasionaly
slow to pickup on sublty. Anyway, at the risk of upsetting the
mailing list etiquette cart once again, I thought the following
message (from nznog mailing list) illustrates one of the more
salient points regarding telcos, unlicensed spectrum and free
market economies:
> From: "Neil" <neil@integrals.co.nz>
> Subject: CLEAR Net Tempest
> To: <nznog@list.waikato.ac.nz>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Has anyone else had any problems with Clear's 802.11 wireless
> internet service (http://www.clear.net.nz/services/tempest.html) as
> a source of interference? They have just done a rollout in Rotorua
> and totally stoped 3 separate wireless networks that had been running
> together nicely for the past year or two.
>
> [...]
Nothing like rolling out a loss-leader to squash all those peskie
"free" or non-telco services before rolling out "3G". Telco sponsored
roll-outs of 802.11b will put it back where in belongs (solving the
"ugly wires in the house" problem).
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Received on Mon Aug 13 12:51:01 2001