Boycott Clearwire

Wed Dec 27 06:05:35 PST 2006

Spectrum licenses do enable valuable services e.g. the cell phone, without
the tragedy of the commons, which is happening to Wi-Fi in some places from
interference.  (Radio spectrum, by the way, cannot be purchased, only
leased.)   What will be interesting are if the white spaces (400-700MHz)
become unlicensed, as Microsoft is now vying in Washington for.  You could
have technology do the work of not interfering instead of the license
approach - Every Xbox as a 16e mesh node at 400Mhz would work.

As for clearwire - great idea, right time, I believe Craig will and SHOULD
do very well.  He is covering the world with Wireless Ethernet, which is
pretty cool - even if they are not yet Net Neutral.  Personally, I prefer
muni Wi-Fi approach, but that is cuz that is where my (and many of yours)
interests lie...

tyler

Tyler van Houwelingen
Founder and CEO
Azulstar, Inc.
1-877-AZULSTAR (main)
1-616-842-1104 (fax)
www.azulstar.com

-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at seattlewireless.net
[mailto:talk-bounces at seattlewireless.net] On Behalf Of Jim Oksvold
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 4:28 AM
To: SeattleWireless Talk List
Subject: Re: Boycott Clearwire

>From: "Peter Yorke" <peter at seattlewireless.net>
> My main objection to Clearwire is their complete lack of commitment 
> servicing rural areas in Washington state while blocking competitive 
> usage of the spectrum in those area they don't/won't service.
> 
> VOIP is such a small percentage of the total bandwidth usage per 
> consumer that blocking it is another anti-competitive abuse of it's 
> customers that will doom this venture like so many other recent McCaw 
> business.

Which brings us to the core of WHY all this happens.
SOMEBODY sold radio spectrum to private companies.

The Socialist State represented by shortsighted white collar untechnical
unpractical politicians are ALWAYS looking for ways to fill the insanely
large deficit of the State.
I am not referring to the small deficit related to "communism went bankrupt
as expected so now we finally get around to clean up/away our former fascist
allies we formerly sorely needed to fill the gaps in the Boulder dam against
communism but no longer need" thingy like
little things in Afghanistan and Irak and a few smaller places. Don't even
think about Cuba and Venezuela as these are merely dustspecks on your
Ray-Ban sunglasses easily rinsed away with a few drops of soap/Clearly
Canadian and totally ignored. ( Yep - their democratically or not elected
politicans are so clueless/talentless that they make ours look good -
elected or not :-)

No, I am referring to the giant onslaught on the economy of baby boomers
looking for a pension.
The huge mass of people born from 1945 to 1955.
As the pension funds and medical funds are inadequate start looking for
all sorts of taxes increasing to make up for lack of properly funded
pensions.
(Did I mention USA mortgaged to the hilltop and property prices falling ?)
Forward financing of unavoidable future costs are now looking like an armada
of icebergs
heading for Manhattan at 55MPH - Unstoppable unless you want to hit them
with nuclear bombs.
I shall refrain from mentioning the hollowed out Central Banking System and
the paperlike value defending it. Continentals ring a bell? (Yep - This year
too I bought perfume for my chosen Lady from USA - Cheapest source worldwide
was a nice Lady in Washington State of all places on Earth - USD 45 only
with shipping to Europe included) - Previous years it used to be from a
Highway junction across a bridge from Manhattan - Newark I think they call
it :-)

Better think twice before you buy more real estate than you strictly need.
Real estate can hardly be moved, which makes it a suitable taxable object.
Got rodents? - Call the exterminater.
Got taxes? - Call The Governator - Ooops, even he can't perform miracles
even if you get around to elect him President :-)

It is the equivelant of selling your communal waterworks to a private
company
and expecting the company NOT to maximize the profits
when they are selling you water. Dont expect them to be ethical about it.
Or as I joked with a few years back:
Would YOU sell your toilet seat in your bathroom to an american insurance
company
in order to lease it back for 27 years?

Take it from me - I am a Libertarian and I have been connected to 10MB/s
Ethernet Cat5
with optical fiber 20 meters away since January/February 2000.
When the Americans entered Bagdad it was the same as ALL of Irak combined.
Makes you think for a while.
If nothing else - The Kurdish men meeting at  a club one block away seems a
lot happier now.
They got at least some freedom and now they can phone home with dirt cheap
IP-telephone :-)
It's good to talk with your loved ones and even better when you can easily
afford it :-)

I really don't like income taxes (Libertarian remember :-) - But if push
comes to shove I would like some of my tax-money spent in Afghanistan - They
could really need it - Don't expect any fast return
on investment - To me it looks like 30-40 years to get things done. (Dead
Serious)
Judging from the grim faces of exiled antagonistic Marxists from Irak where
i live
things will need 20 years to improve in Irak. Generals usually are no good
as Finance Ministers - They are simply not educated in economy.
And The Governator? - He is actually educated in economy, and he's got his
own little private
pension fund :-) - Not bad for a Nerdy Nerdanderthaler from a dark valley in
Austria with a wifey who is a Scientologist just like myself  :-)

A Happy New Year to you all. And for those who survive the Baby-Boomers it
looks like sunshine all the way to the sunset :-) - Be sure to build your
own private pension fund and invest a small amount of it in producers of
wireless equipment - There is not enough Copper in Chile to do it the old
way with POTS worldwide. Who knows - On a sunny day Hugo Chavez might make a
decent order of wireless equipment in order to give The People of the
Bolivarian State "Free Internet to the People" :-)
And even if you cant get decent IP-Telephone to were you live,  you might do
the world a service
and hopefully increase your pension fund while you do it. There is money to
be made :-)

Greetings
Jim Oksvold
Oslo, Norway

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