Re: Guerilla Internet Service Providers (fwd)

[jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>]

At 05:37 PM 1/2/96 -0800, you wrote:
>> It seems to me that phone line costs are turning into a floor price for
>> Internet access, when they shouldn't really be.  The main asset telephone
>> companies have, right now, is in RIGHTS OF WAY.  Put an ISP in a business
>> park that allows you to run  your own dedicated copper pairs, and you've
>> bypassed $25/month/line business phone line charges. 
>> 
>> At some point, individual urban and suburban blocks could easily be
>> "guerilla re-wired" for ISP access without serious trenching, etc.  The
>> phoneco would still be involved, but in a far lower-profit mode, as the
>> supplier of a single T1 to a multi-block area.  
>
>For the "last mile" to the ISP user, wireless could be a better bet.
>Have antenna, will surf.

Yes, you're absolutely right.  It would be great if some entrepreneur could
buy a T1, put up a 2000 MHz (or somewhere around that; whatever frequency
was allocated appropriately) local "cellular" data system which would be
able to connect to up to, say, 100 simultaneous  or so local users using
modems little more complicated than a current 900 MHz cordless phone.  Okay,
maybe all this stuff is already being worked on at a few dozen or hundred
companies around the globe, but I can't wait...  



>(Not speaking for Qualcomm, etc.)
>
>Peter Monta   pmonta@qualcomm.com
>Qualcomm, Inc./Globalstar

Question:  Is this the "Qualcomm" that does the Internet access software, or
the "Qualcomm" who builds the wireless amps/filters/hardware/etc?   Or is it
all the same company?!?