IP: Re: BROADBAND WON'T HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: Peter Cochrane <petercochrane () conceptlabs net>
>
> ALL = For the record - here is my reply to Dave!  Peter
>
> Dave (Hughes)  = Do you think I spent my life sucking my thumb??   I lost 
> pints of
> blood trying to get them to see sense!  In the end - after a decade - I
> moved on!  Never seen this before?  You must have lived a very sheltered
> existence indeed.  Look inside Xerox, ATT, IBM, Ford et al - all (it seems)
> giant corporations/organisations are more or less the same.....Peter
>
> > From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> > Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 08:18:38 -0800
> > To: dewaynes () warpspeed com (Dewayne's Wireless News List)
> > Subject: RE: BROADBAND WON'T HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT
> >
> > [Note:  This comment comes from reader Dave Hughes.  Dave Farber
> > posted Cochrane's article on his list this morning.  There are a
> > number of FCC types on his list, so maybe it will make its way to
> > Powell and the other Commissioners.  DLH]
> >
> > At 8:10 -0800 12/31/01, Dave Hughes wrote:
> >> From: "Dave Hughes" <dave () oldcolo com>
> >> To: <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> >> Subject: RE: BROADBAND WON'T HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT
> >> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 08:10:08 -0800
> >> MIME-Version: 1.0
> >>
> >> This guy was the CT0 of British Telecom? Why the hell has it taken THIS
> >> long for THAT company to wake up and smell the wireless roses? And he
> >> was personally using 2mbps E1 radios from his home to his work, as a
> >> benefit of his employment, and never saw before it was yanked from him
> >> when he retired what its value to BT might have been years ago? Below I
> >> have snipped most of his lengthy screed flagellating BT for its
> >> incredibly bad future-business decisions. And left his repeated
> >> references to wireless as part of the only workable solution of the
> >> future now that the big boys are too broke to lay fiber to everyone.
> >>
> >> Incredible! No WONDER Welsh BBC and a Telecom Consumer specialist came
> >> to America to do a documentary on what I do with wireless in a small way
> >> out of Old Colorado City! No wonder they are flying me over next month
> >> to put up a rural 802.11b demonstration project in North Wales. Wales -
> >> where bandwidth is incredibly low or non-existent. (56kbs dial up over
> >> BT lines!? Don't make me laugh) And no wonder the first Minister of the
> >> Welsh National Assembly is bugging their UK Spectrum authority to permit
> >> 'commerce' to be done over 802.11b (which is not permitted yet) after he
> >> saw the documentary, where I said it would be useless to deploy 802.11b
> >> on a 'neighborhood' basis unless commerce was permitted. That this is
> >> NOT just a no-business ham technology. (the formal review of the rules
> >> is now underway)
> >>
> >> Three years ago when I went over to the UK and Wales, it was clear to me
> >> in a one-week trip, that I could hook up EVERY Welsh farmhouse to the
> >> net at least at 2mbps, wirelessly, using nothing more than the village
> >> PUBs as ISPs! Because the whole country is only 150 miles long and 50
> >> miles wide, and 99% of the population, even all those small sheep farms
> >> are less than 5 miles from the closest PUB and village! Wireless nirvana
> >> - even at 100 milliwatts!
> >>
> >> But isn't this set of revelations (paralleling Isenberg's Confessions)
> >> just as applicable to US Telcos, whom, after the dotcom collapses and
> >> the drying up of expansion capitol, the same damned thing in the US?
> >>
> >> This is another article that should be shoved right in front of Powell
> >> and all the FCC commissioners!
> >>
> >> Dave Hughes
> >> dave () oldcolo com
> >>
> >>

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