Re: Wobbly Wi-Fi strives for stability in Portland (The Oregonian)

On the other hand, MetroFi is saving my sorry ass today. Qwest turned off my
DSL this morning and I am using MetroFi Free to connect from my apartment
right now.

I know this will be difficult for to all of you who are gainfully employed
to fathom, but I can't really afford DSL from Qwest. That's why they turned
it off. Not because I didn't want it, but because I couldn't pay for it.

I was MetroFi that came to the rescue.

Is it perfect? Of course not. But getting free WiFi to my apartment was the
difference between life and death. Why do you think I'm involved in
PersonalTelco?

It's free WiFi.

- Sam Churchill
www.dailywireless.org
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On 9/4/07, Tom Higgins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 9/4/07, Tyler van Houwelingen <tyler-V1V7y2s5pYxWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > You may have seen this as it is a local article (Oregonian) and mentions
> > PTP.  I am curious what you guys think of the MetroFi service in
> Portland.
>
>
>
> Speaking just as a person, not as the royal we of the nonexistent group
> consensus, i feel the same way about metrofi as I did when i first read
> over
> the details of the contract they won... bullocks
>
> Sure folks have tried to softball the issue in order not to come off
> looking
> like the local holligans bashing the dreams of the emperors new jimmiez,
> but
> for fraks sake did anyone (anyone at least who has not made a few dollars
> on
> the deal) actually believe it was going to work as the were spinning it?
>
> I'm sure if you go back thru the posts you will find the usual suspects
> doing the doom dance on the issue..like the whole issue of MetroFi
> eventual
> needing to drop its "its all good and free" trousers and making the "well
> we
> have to get paid somehow" biz plan PR shift. Yes it was always self
> evident
> thats what they were going to do but their spin was FREE FREE OMG FREE...
>
> A great video that descibes metrofis biz model can best be shown here
> http://youtube.com/watch?v=HM-cbc0zMr4
>
> .yea the smarm factor is just about as evident.
>
> So I guess you can figure out where I wont be sending a resume:)-
>
> Just my 2 cents, you may want that converted into pesos.
>
> -tomhiggins
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