[MLB-WIRELESS] grumpy people - get a move on

[Lucas Lozo]

If you want to get a mass people on the system,
Charge every one $5 or $10 per month, offer FREE internet, unlimited
time bytes etc.
Use the Money to BUY Fixed  Bandwidth Un-metered bytes and watch the
people flock,
If every one gets only 1K or so download,  Well its almost Free..!!!
 
Low Cost Internet would be the prime incetive for anyone to get onto the
wireless lan.
 
Next Motivation if is not a concern (it is to me) and a "Pirate software
swapping"  But then who is legally liable for this.
 
Otherwise what other motivations are there for people to get on??
 
But The Real Issue is as far as i can see is to decide firstly: 
 
1. Melbourne Wireless LAN is it to contain Internet or Not.
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: ABBENHUYS, Ryan [mailto:rabbenhuys at mfbb.vic.gov.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2002 3:28 PM
To: 'melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org'
Subject: RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] grumpy people - get a move on



Seriously, I think you need to forget the Internet access aspect
altogether.  That's just a whole different ball game. 
Legally we can't do it anyway as far as I understand. 

The Melbwireless WAN has to be treated as it's own entity.  It's never
going to reach the scale of the internet it's just not possible.  You're
not going to capture the interest of your average Joe Blo who bought a
PC + Internet access package from Harvey Norman with free 6 months
technical support.

  The only people who are going to be interested are people interested
in developing a wireless community, consisting of file swapping, a small
catalogue of web sites, games servers, chat servers, etc.

  I think it's best compared to an "oldschool" BBS. The only difference
is it's wireless. 

that's my thoughts 
keeping in mind most of the time i have no idea what i'm talking about. 


-----Original Message----- 
From: Simon Hall [ mailto:simonh at auschar.com.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2002 14:48 

I think the real issue here is that people want to be able to connect to
the 
internet.  Not just a community network.  It does appear, for this to
move 
forward a few things need to be sorted.  It is clear that there is, in 
general, a lot of interest. 

It is pretty obvious that without internet access the idea of a wireless

network is not as appealing particularly if there is a substantial setup

cost. 



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