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RedFish Chaser · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:40 pm Post subject: FREE Broadband on the Horizon?

I'm ALL for FREE stuff, including Broadband service and Good beer (LOL)!

I don't know if most of you have heard about this, but there's a company in Silicon Valley who's filed with FCC to get approval to offer FREE broadband in USA. However, FCC has been stalling and stone walling the review of the application and approval. Sounds possibly like lobbying and corruption by existing internet service providers?

Here's a link of the News Release that I received via Email from connections with Public Technology Inc. http://www.corpus-wow.com/gallery/albums/MYLISTINGS/M2Z/M2Z%20082207.pdf

Here's a link to send Emails to our legislatures to get them to have FCC review M2Z's application. Let's jump on FREE broadband! www.m2znetworks.com/pdf/Application.pdf

I'm figuring why M2Z wants to offer Free broadband, THEY WILL MARKET the INTERNET world and SELL advertisements! What a damn creative and smart business MODEL! Another form of YouTube in a different way.

More power to them!

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Bluffer · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:49 pm Post subject:

Nothings FREE, just sounds that way. get you on the other side, Idea

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RedFish Chaser · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:06 pm Post subject: I'm an Optimist

Bluffer, I'm an Optimist. Perhaps I'm a naive RedFish.

If M2Z put in their application for Free Broadband, then they'll have a hard time doing nothing less. They'll lose their license. They have nothing to lose to offer Free Broadband. They'll generate so much revenue from advertisers! This is the Yahoo, Google, the YouTube. Except a KEY thing, they will be the connection to get to the Yahoo, Google, and the YouTubes, CorpusFishing, Corpus-WOW, etc. They will force existing Internet Service Providers to go their direction and/or lowering their connection cost big time. Otherwise, they lose millions of customers.

M2Z's business model is brilliant if they can get past current ISP lobbyists and FCC approval!

I'm ready to go work for M2Z!
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Drake · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:28 pm Post subject: Free Broadband

There is a ton of free specrtum out there to operate on basicaly anything between 2.010 and 2.3 ghz (with a few exceptions). And there is about 4x as much about to be made free. As soon as all tv siganals are moved to hi-def and digitized 1/2 of that channel space will be free and 1/2 will be auctioned off for all types of uses. Off the top of my head I do not remember how much spectrum that is but it is huge.

The problem of this business model is tied to the infrastucture costs. Towers aint cheap and on line ads are. So who is going to pay to build it? Which is compounded by who would use it if you have to keep closing pop-ups or watch a 10 second comercial to watch a 1 minute video. So who is going to pay to advertise?

Free TV is trying to deal with that one now by doing all they can to discourage TiVO type devices/services.

Bluffer · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:37 pm Post subject:

Scamwise it sounds free. Confused

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rabbit · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:00 am Post subject:

That would be nice. Let me know if it happens. Probably be so full of advertisements and popups you wouldnt be able to use it. Laughing

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noskunks · Horse Mullet Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 157

or at worst free like the wi-fi in the great city of Corpus Christi, use tax money of the constituates to build the infastructure and then allow earthlink to collect $6.00 a month from everyone who wants to use it!

RedFish Chaser · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:08 am Post subject: YUP

That $6.00 is I believe $6.99 or something like that for six months if you sign on for some length of agreement. Otherwise, I believe it's $19.99 or something. And even then, that crap WiFi connnection doesn't work well in most parts of the city!

Well I'd expect that M2Z company use it's own capital. They'd use existing fiber optics and put what ever repeater cells/towers/etc.

I'm tired of Time Warner having a near monoploy with POOR service after getting the initial hook up. They can nearly charge what they want without fear of losing customers to ATT and the likes. It pays to own shares in those companies if one can afford to invest!
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