Dorian In the World

I can't take it any longer. What is up with these (crazy) cities all over the planet spearheading municipal WiFi projects?!? I have said for almost a year that if I was a tax payer in Philadelphia or countless other wreckless cities I would sue the local government for misuse of my tax dollars. I predict a class action lawsuit or the like against a US city within a year. I do understand that taxpayer money is not funding the rollouts...but who is funding the city employee's time working on these projects?

What is going through a politicians mind when they 'come up with the idea' that their city should have ubiquitous WiFi coverage for the masses? Maybe ubiquitious housing, education or medical aid is a more likely target?!? I'm telling you it makes me crazy. Why don't they start dealing in electricity, cable TV or countless other commercial services?!? Does WiFi makes their citizens smarter or something? I haven't seen such a study.

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To be completely honest...almost no one should be a true entrepreneur. In fact, over the past few weeks I have said time and time again that 99.9% of people should never be entrepreneurs.

Why? Being a true entrepreneur (i.e.: neither an old family business nor a franchise) is time demanding, cash draining and can be extremely stressful and anxiety producing.

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The OECD has released a lengthy report on the state of WiMAX (PDF).

It was interesting to see a close to comprehensive comparison between countries on various metrics regarding WiMAX. Clearly at odds with most of the other countries in the report was the United States.

I have been deploying last mile microwave since 2000 and last fall began deploying what WiLAN termed 'pre-WiMAX' equipment (recently WiLAN announced their exit from the hardware game to focus on their WiMAX patent portfolio).

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I have owned a Blackberry since 2000 I believe. I had the old 957 model which now looking back upon the weight, size and functionality kind of reminds me of those old grey Motorola 'brick' phones (of which I have a new one sitting on my desk).

Over the past two years I have strongly asserted to anyone who asks whether my blackberry (since the 957 a 7280, 7290 and now an 8700) is useful or not, I strongly proclaim that my company, MetroBridge Networks, would be atleast 30% smaller in both sales, number of employees and number of customers with Blackberry.

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