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- From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
- Newsgroups: ba.general
- Subject: Re: pressure those nasty Bay Area cable companies!
- Message-ID: <1371@taniwha.UUCP>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 19:00:25 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.210516.27444@smsc.sony.com> <1992Dec31.034404.18905@netcom.com>
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- Organization: Taniwha Systems Design
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- I've fantasized about setting up my own cable company - probably non-profit
- along the lines of the old Berkeley CO-OP. You could start with just a
- dish and lay cable out from wherever you start from as you get subscribers,
- maybe even say to-hell-with-the-regulators and do a guerilla cable company.
-
- In a similar vein it dawn on me recently that in Berkeley you could set up
- your own phone company - just pop a box on a hill and using a combination of
- cell-phone technology and millimeter microwave technology (after all all the
- stations are fixed and can just have a little dish) - this works great in a
- place like Berkeley where almost the whole town is visible from the hill above
- it. Of course it would ALL be digital.
-
- Of course you can combine the two systems - snarf a lot of bandwidth, maybe
- 500MHz and do both. Or combine them in another way - use fiber to deliver one
- end of the signal (phone and video) and cell-phone to talk back.
-
- I think it's a great idea - now's the time - but then again I don't want
- a couple of the biggest companies around (with LOTs of lawyers) breathing
- down my neck.
-
- Paul
-
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