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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4682)	12/19/2001 5:56:40 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

In my earlier post I stated: "Not to be overlooked are the relationships that the ISP has with other entities, and their philosophical leanings that may affect how they are regarded by other ISPs. I also mentioned that Gordon Cook, publisher of cookreport.com , had some comments that he had asked me to air here w.r.t. to some of these issues. Cook writes: ------ "I read the silly investor stuff and was going to add a comment of my own.... i tried to sign up the other day...had problem....don't remember what i gave it for my name and password. what i tried did not work. So send them to http://wireless@oldcolo.com I just looked at starnetwx.com not especially impressed because I DO know this technology... it is good technology but it is not a silver bullet for everyone's broadband connection needs or investment dreams ohhhhhh MEGA POP....... is on their web site which says: today, MegaPOP has developed into the largest 56K V.90 and ISDN wholesale dial-up network in North America. There are currently more than 1,200 access locations throughout the United States and Canada and more than 1,000 ISP customers -- including MSN, Juno, NetZero and Bluelight. now THAT is interesting I am using megapop to get net access right now..... They have authentication problems at least twice a month....ie...my dial in refuses to authenticate but they seem to be able to give me PPP connection that allows me to pick up and send pop 3 email and browse the web. BUT given their free customers they are the source of MUCH spam and their adresses 64.24.xx.xx are black holed by a largish number of other ISPs. In other words you send mail to foo@imt.net and you get a bounce saying that your mail comes from a known source of spam and they are denying you the ability to reach their customers. luckily i found a way around this via the xtend xmit feature of eudora that allows me TO SEND email from the same pop mailer where i pick up!!! they key question for these folk is where do the wireless providers connect to the rest of the net....if at megapop that is an interesting and novel solution but not one without problems for serious users. and there are plenty of other problems. lessigs new book has a chapter on the wireless commons that is very good but if the silly investor folk are there looking for the next pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, the answer is that there are no more pots of gold..... you saw that with the proposal you evaluated. these wireless business'es can make a profit BECAUSE they stay small and BECAUSE they use the FCC part 15 rules that were put in place for radios that the big boys didn't think it worth while fighting about but radios that now have gotten very very good. the internet enables this kind of small grassroots operation in the same way that it has enabled me to run a small publishing operation from my from porch for TEN YEARS. the BIG problem however is that telecom if it is to continue to do what it is capable of has to be understood as an ENABLING technology in the same way that our interstate highways enabled economic growth over the past 40 years and THOSE required public investment as a national resource and commons imagining that the free market could do the same thing has brought us non stop bankruptcies of the innovative players, walled gardens and monpolies (aol time warner and microsoft), and remonopolization of telephony and the prospect of what isenberg called permacession yesterday. george gilder may have been well meaning but he paints pictures of technologies that without sound public policy will produce all the imapct of fairy tales. Except. Know what? the evil witch in the end is the one that wins. [Gordon Cook] The COOK Report on Internet 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA (609)882-2572 cook@cookreport.com