[MLB-WIRELESS] The future

[Marian Szczepkowski]

Charging for anything would require the individual or group to hold a 
carrier license 
while this is not difficult the problem arises when they try to implement 
a pay for use
service. The class license covering 2.4 and 5gHz clearly state that when 
it comes to
interference you are on your own. Hence they would not be able to stop 
you running a 
parallel service for free. 

The business model for routing is severely broken.

Where large areas are involved, these networks are probably only suited 
to hobby 
groups such as this one, and possibly councils seeking to do some good 
for there 
communities, especially in remote areas where a council or community 
organisations 
could use this as a vehicle to obtain better cost control for internet 
access.

This is not to say that someone may not charge to act as an internet 
gateway whilst
still being a member of melbwireless, but internet access does cost 
money. I see
no reason why this should be a concern to anyone. I suspect that the 
individual 
doing this would be subject to some fierce competition though.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 1/24/02, 5:24:09 PM, Mark Saward <tyreth at yahoo.com> wrote regarding RE: 
[MLB-WIRELESS] The future:


> Would it be possible to put anything into writing?

> The reason why I ask this is because there are people that will always
> try and take control of something good and turn it into a profitable
> enterprise for themselves.  Sometimes they might have romantic notions
> that it will improve the service, but in the end it is a different
> spirit that is at work, and power is removed from the people again.

> Mark

> > If anyone starts trying to charge for access I'd imagine they would no
> > longer be regarded as part of the Melbwireless Network and would not be
> > welcome to contribute to ideas and projects or even connect to the 
Network
> > for that matter.
> >
> > Charging for access goes against what Melbwireless is.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lkhoo at csc.com.au [mailto:lkhoo at csc.com.au]
> > Sent: Thursday, 24 January 2002 12:05
> >
> > "hardware" as in someone owns a particular AP that joins two seperate 
parts
> > of the network?
> >
> > aslong as there were multiple routes for traffic this sort of thing
> > shouldn't happen. As soon as they start charging for traffic the routes
> > could be adjusted to bypass that particular node.
> > Too bad for the people that can only access the network via this AP 
though!
> >
> > Lucas
> >
> >
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