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Article #707Re: ATT MicroCell
From: John Higdon
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 23:28
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 23:28
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In article <hthldr$ad9$1@blue.rahul.net>, falk@green.rahul.net (Edward A. Falk) wrote: > My understanding is that because of AT&T's poor coverage in some areas, > they make the MicroCell available to improve your personal coverage > inside the immediate area of the device. The device attaches to the > broadband you already have. > > In other words, they're giving you the privilege of paying them money so > you can expand *their* inadequate infrastructure for them, using network > bandwidth you're also paying for. And my further understanding is that ANYONE within range of the microcell can use it as well. So...not only do you pay to improve AT&T's miserable coverage for YOU (by paying them and also providing the bandwidth), but for anyone else who happens by. That's the cooperative Internet for you: you pay AT&T and then you share your resources. -- John Higdon +1 408 ANdrews 6-4400 AT&T-Free At Last
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X-Google-Thread: aa617e85ca,29bea3e9c8441fc7 X-Google-Attributes: gidaa617e85ca,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!post02.iad!not-for-mail From: John Higdon <higgy@kome.com> Newsgroups: alt.cellular.attws,ba.internet Subject: Re: ATT MicroCell Organization: Technological Extortion Studies References: <Xns9D82742D7AE09blahblahcom@81.169.183.62> <hthldr$ad9$1@blue.rahul.net> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 16:28:15 -0700 Message-ID: <higgy-912EE7.16281525052010@news.announcetech.com> X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: gw.announcetech.com X-Authenticated-User: john Lines: 24 X-Complaints-To: abuse@newshosting.com