GOLFnSUN
Enjoy the sun
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
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|  Dumping WiFi lost $61M in revenue & saved $145M in costs
Earthlink, until recently, was desperately trying to grow revenue due to the ever shrinking dial-up customers they had and were trying to replace. To replace those dial customers they went in 10 different directions - and the biggest losing move was to get in to the muni-WiFi arena. Now that they are rapidly unwinding that commitment, their costs have gone down dramatically - much more than their reduced revenues.
Unfortunately, for the long term prognosis of the company, they still haven't found a way to grow revenue while keeping costs in line. So while they have made a nice short term turnaround, their long term prospects still look bleak.
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PhoenixDown
-- Wants FIOS
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join:2003-06-08
Fresh Meadows, NY
clubs:   | Muni-wifi may not have been the best approach but city-wide wifi networks where users would subscribe to high speed connections like their Cable or DSL counterparts sounds plausible. I'm surprised it didn't work out better. |
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Renard2008
@comcast.net
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All due respect ... forget about Earthlink for a second and think about the city; of all cities out there I think NOLA was one of the most unfortunate choices - they have much bigger things to worry about, and precious little money to spend on non-essential stuff like wi-fi.
Just my opinon, though. |
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factchecker
@cox.net | Just to give you heads up... The muni-wifi project in New Orleans predated Katrina and the Earthlink project.
It was originally deployed in order to monitor cameras placed in high crime sections of the city. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| reply to PhoenixDown
With muni wifi your fighting against shitty Centrino laptops with zero gain antennas and no tx power, and your fighting with really slow speeds compared to Cable and DSL (who gets more than 1.5 mbit/s on wifi WISPs? even if backhaul is more than a T1, you'll be rate limited to a T1). Also remember your dealing with incredible inertia with existing Cable and DSL, and alot of cable and DSL providers now offer 99 cent broadband 768k or 1m down and $15-$25 a month, and they always work, rather than wifi which can be degraded by 2.4 interference or congestion over precious 802.11b links. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | reply to factchecker
How does wifi have enough bandwidth to have 10s of cameras going over it? 11B is 4.5 mbitps and 11G is 20mbitps. |
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truocchio
join:2004-07-05
Miami Beach, FL | thats why it failed so many different times...great expectations and nothing to deliver. |
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