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To: pcstel who wrote (27832)	5/24/2010 1:49:12 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 29987

No I wouldn't: <You would be amazed at the number of people that are willing to pay good money for terrestrial broadband service.> My bet is that swarms of people would rather pay for something that works well than spend ages being hassled by advertisements and muck in exchange for "free" service. Yes, as you wrote, a few years ago many wifi routers were not secured. Walking around our block 3 years ago I counted about 20 wifi ssids out of about 60 hours with 6 of them unsecured so I could just connect and start using internet. Now, I doubt if any are not secured. I should go and test it again. <this laptop I have has built in EVDO. But, I can't log in because I don't have an account. i.e. I don't know the Seckret Handshake. > Don't they let you just hook up, pay $5 or so and start using 50 megabytes or maybe even 100, or maybe even 1000? 10c per MHz per pop per year is certainly not a bank breaker. But cheap is only cheap if there isn't something even cheaper. No wonder GSM lasted so long when such little pressure was on spectrum prices - it was far more important to have a sim and global roaming and lower unit cost handsets and swankier handsets than to save $1 a year. The pressure on spectrum seems to have been over rated over the last 20 years. So much squeezes through spectrum now, with such little cells and micro, pico, nano and femto cells reusing spectrum at low cost that spectrum prices are still quite modest. As mobile cyberspace really gets going, there is surely going to be some upward pressure on price, though the capacity of wifi and ADSL, let alone fibre, is barely tested yet. Mqurice