Re: Bait and Switch?

>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Moon <[email protected]> writes:

Brian> What does "anchor tenancy" mean? What does it look like?  My
Brian> first thought was of a shopping mall: a bunch of stores, mostly
Brian> small, with a large store (Macy's or Sears, for example) as a
Brian> big draw.

Brian> But I don't know how that would work for municipal wireless.

MetroFi gives away "free" wifi, but it also sells it, either without
ads or in fixed-wireless service.  What MetroFi is asking for,
essentially, is for the City to buy some amount of service so as to
provide a funding stream to make themselves either solvent or perhaps
more profitable than they are now (I have no way of knowing anything
about their finances).  It looks like they are willing to walk away if
the City doesn't do it.  However, the Willamette Week carried a story
in August with this:

   Kleier [the City's project manager] says that about six months ago,
   the company asked him to buy more network subscriptions than the
   city could possibly afford.

 We said our contract didn't have any commitments. And that was the
   end of that discussion, Kleier says.

This network was a business risk.  That's what makes America great,
right?  The City has been admirably effective at insulating itself
financially from that risk.


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