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

David Josephson wrote:

>
>
> 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. 

I'm glad to see that somebody else picked up on the fact that he's 
ALREADY a consulant.
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