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Many cities are already making this illegal, hopefully Baltimore realizes how damaging this truly is for business.
They could have gone with Althea design and have both freeloader and sustainability problem solved. Instead they did this...
The capital costs of building networks like these, when you factor in the know-how and time required to build and scale a WISP, are really far beyond the bandwidth costs, which appears to be all that Althea accounts for. Passing the hat to cover gateway costs seems like a fine approach to me.
It has broken my heart to see what has happened there, since, but I know that it's a really strong town, and I'm glad to see this.
I find these kinds of projects very interesting. It is just too bad the site does not talk about the technology they use (or maybe I am just not seeing it?). I am interested in this because I have recently been working on simulation studies of large Ad Hoc networks where we look at the B.A.T.M.A.N protocol. It was originally built for use in the Freifunk ( https://freifunk.net/en/ ) network in Germany which is simila…
This should be illegal, how could private enterprises possibly compete with community organized ISPs? You have to take into account the increase in profit every ISP has to make every year. How is the industry going to survive if you allow competition from ISP's that do not need to make profit? Many cities are already making this illegal, hopefully Baltimore realizes how damaging this truly is for business.
This should be illegal, how could private enterprises possibly compete with community organized ISPs? You have to take into account the increase in profit every ISP has to make every year. How is the industry going to survive if you allow competition from ISP's that do not need to make profit? Many cities are already making this illegal, hopefully Baltimore realizes how damaging this truly is for business.
This should be illegal, how could private enterprises possibly compete with community organized ISPs? You have to take into account the increase in profit every ISP has to make every year. How is the industry going to survive if you allow competition from ISP's that do not need to make profit? Many cities are already making this illegal, hopefully Baltimore realizes how damaging this truly is for business.
Do Habitat for Humanity stores put Home Depot out of business?
Do food banks put grocery stores out of business?
Does offering free water as a drink put bars out of business?
Same product category, very different markets.
This should be illegal, how could private enterprises possibly compete with community organized ISPs? You have to take into account the increase in profit every ISP has to make every year. How is the industry going to survive if you allow competition from ISP's that do not need to make profit? Many cities are already making this illegal, hopefully Baltimore realizes how damaging this truly is for business.
A threat to commercial providers is a very good thing as it might force them to step up their game and provide even better access, if people realize they don’t need continuous access to streaming media to get by. More likely, they’ll just throw money at lawyers and politicians to get any competition shut down, but hope remains.
This should be illegal, how could private enterprises possibly compete with community organized ISPs? You have to take into account the increase in profit every ISP has to make every year. How is the industry going to survive if you allow competition from ISP's that do not need to make profit? Many cities are already making this illegal, hopefully Baltimore realizes how damaging this truly is for business.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Non profit EINs are public knowledge. Perhaps they are non-profit?
No, all EIN's are public per se, but they are used as an SSN for getting credit, etc. They are on annual reports, sure but that requires some work vs just having it on the website.
There is also a ton of value. It makes people who donate more confident that their donations made through corporate gift matching or donor advised funds are going to the right place.