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- From: tweek@netcom.com (Michael D. Maxfield)
- Subject: Re: pressure those nasty Bay Area cable companies!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.113141.20523@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <1992Dec30.210516.27444@smsc.sony.com> <1992Dec31.034404.18905@netcom.com> <1371@taniwha.UUCP>
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 11:31:41 GMT
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- In article <1371@taniwha.UUCP> paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) writes:
- >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.
-
- Well, in Berkeley, just maybe guerilla cable might work ;)... but if you
- run wire down a public easment, you will be faced with a) leasing the space
- from either telco, the power company, or whoever installed the conduit/poles,
- and b) by using a public easment, you are opening yourself to franchise
- regulations from the city.
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- If you were to go with `Wireless Cable' (an oxymoron if I ever heard one)
- then you are free of both of the above problems... but then you have to
- do a bit more legal/technical work to get a microwave frequency site and
- licenses from the FCC. Oh, and don't forget about an EIR (Enviromental
- Impact Report) and ohhh, the health risks that microwave energy cause...
- (It is Berkeley you are talking about)... of course, a Wireless Cable
- facility would probably put out 1/100 or less of the total radiation
- coming off those hills above Berkeley.... I'd bet with the lab up there,
- you would blend right into the background noise (NOTE: This is more
- sarcasm than fact which I am posting).
-
- There is a FAQ on wireless cable that is sent out about once a month on
- one of the tv newsgroups. It does go into some detail about what is
- required to start up a wireless cable system. Unfortunatly, most of the
- populated areas are already closed out as far as applications are concerned
- for wireless cable licenses.
-
- tweek@netcom.com tweek@tweekco.uucp WWIVNet 5@5058 4@5056
- I'd rather get my cable service from the phone company,
- than my phone service from the cable company.
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