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I'd like to see someone shoot a beam even further East to small
municipalities with libaries and police departments that have no
Internet connection. Shooting that beam would create low hanging fruit
for folks in the networking business.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Jim<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Jim Ray, President
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 21:06, Aaron Bockover wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Okay, so Raleigh just isn't full of open WiFi hot-spots, and it'd really
be nice to have wireless broadband. Is anyone subscribed to such a
service? Does one really even exist yet in this area?
I tried signing up for the free Nextel Wireless Broadband trial last
year, but didn't get accepted. It's been a year, the trial is over, and
it doesn't look like they've rolled the service out publicly.
Verizon has wireless broadband, but Raleigh isn't one of its supported
cities.
Are we just that insignificant? I would really hate to have to start
using my cellphone for dial-up... that's just asinine!
Best,
Aaron
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<pre wrap=""><!---->There are a couple of folks *trying* to do wireless in Raleigh.
Unfortunately Bell owns all the reserved spectrum here and has just been
sitting on it. The few companies doing the Public spectrum are stuck
because no one will fund them with the specter of Bell looming over them
(and doing nothing)...
That's why places like Johnson County have Wireless DSL and Raleigh
doesn't.
It will get here though. My company is currently partnering (or about to
partner) with a big provider that is East of here. If that is successful
then we will be bringing them into Fuquay and Apex as an alternate
provider for our VoIP offering.
Jon Carnes
FeatureTel
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