Re: Wireless Internet Wifi Hotspot - Worth it? - billing platforms?

Jason Morton wrote:

>Why do we keep getting these profit related things and from Cali no less?
>
Because the sunny weather makes us believe that there's a fortune to be 
made, next week, in the wireless ISP business. It's a basic business 
school problem -- where there are low barriers to entry or competition, 
the big guns stay home and dozens of neighborhood entrpreneurs show up. 
Predictably, companies then show up with supercharged claims to feed off 
the gullible entrepreneurs and wifi gets an even worse name.

Perhaps we need a separate dev-business list somewhere to talk about 
business plans, this *is* SWN dev-tech, right?

And to deal with a question left unanswered from our wireless internet 
consultant and wifi hotspot consultant friend in San Diego, the quality 
of installation (antenna selection and siting, connector installation, 
power protection, weatherproofing, code maintenance, hack resistance, 
lightning protection, etc) has far more to do with the success of a 
hotspot installation than whether it's Cisco or D-Link or homebrew.
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