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First National 802.11b ISP
JScarpace writes "The chairman and founder of Earthlink,
Sky Dayton, will introduce his newest company today, a wireless ISP called "Boingo" which will resell 802.11b access being provided by smaller ISPs around the country. Sky hopes to build up Boingo the same way he built up Earthlink -- by buying or partnering with enough smaller providers to offer a national service." An overdue idea and a stupid company name. Course it'll never get to me... the
downside of living in the sticks. Those of you in real cities may be one
step closer to the dream. update yup, another duplicate. Pre coffee
story posting should be forbidden. Ah well, maybe the flamers will get it
out of their system early ;)
is this the same story that timothy posted not so long ago, or is it just me?
do not read this line twice.
Fellas (-who-are-complaining-that-this-is-a-repeat):
There are 2 separate stories about wireless ISPs related to Earthlink. The previous story is about the announcement, by Earthlink, of a fixed wireless service that would use a roof-mounted dish to provide access. It's not clear it it would use 802.11b or something else. But the key seems to be that it's fixed.
The other story (i.e. this one) is about Sky Dayton's announcement of a new company that will be some sort of aggregator for 802.11b service from various ISPs around the country, and provide mobile service (a la Ricochet/Metricom, which Dayton derides in the little miniinterview/PR linked to above).
These certainly *seem* like different stories, don't they.
I'm banking my money on two Satellite-modem up-and-comers.
www.wildblue.com should have hopefully reasonably priced satellite modem access, even though the ping-times will be high (300ms+). Download speeds of 3Mbps. It's supposed to be available in mid 2002. But if it's like DirecPC, it will suck, big time, and everyone will get FAP'd all over the place. Nevertheless, it's my only real hope at this point.
www.teledesic.com is supposed to be available in 2005. Low ping times (comparable to T1), super-fast throughput (64 Mbps), but whether or not it will fly (pun intended) is questionable, IMHO.
-Slashdolt
As an Oingo Boingo Fanatic (and a Former Member of the Oingo Boingo Secret Society) I find this really offensive. I hope Danny Elfman and the boys sue Earthlink.
BTW, To you younger slashdotters: Find yourselves some Oingo Boingo music. They were one of the most creative and varied bands of the 80's. Kinda punk\ska\earlytechno, even a country style song. Great dance and party music. (sorry for the shameless plug, but what the hell. They are still my favorites!)
Just a dude. Stuck in IT.
Damn straight. Of course I think they should atleast license it or something of that nature. but IIRC correctly, they officially changed their name to Boi-ngo (or was that their last album of new music, not counting farewell?) so technically, it wouldn't be infringement or anything. Hell maybe it took so long for this to happen cause dayton is a huge boingo fan, and was waiting for the rights on the name to expire or something (been 6+ years now).....