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Free nationwide wireless for 95% of US

May 24, 2006 by in Cool,Tech with 3 Comments

I’m nots ure how likely free wireless would be for 95% of US citizens, but the idea of free is always entertaining.

One company has applied to the FCC for 20 MHz of spectrum in return for providing 95 percent of U.S. customers free coverage (after CPE purchase).

Kleiner Perkins, history’s most successful venture capital firm, is backing John Muleta and Milo Medin’s offer to unwire the entire United States. 384/128 will be free while they’ll sell higher speeds, ads, voice and much else. In return for 20 megahertz of spectrum, M2Z will pay a 5 percent royalty to the U.S. We give 19 megahertz to a TV network that mostly plays infomercials, so this is a no-brainer. “Affordable broadband for all Americans,” anyone.

Does anyoen want to drop a little business insight on the matter?


  • http://... Nic

    My business insight (having taken 1 business class in community college) Free = Good

    :)

  • http://www.mgroves.com boohiss

    Here’s some business insight: less than 5% of projects funded by venture capital go on to become really successful companies, and around 40% of project funded by venture capital never even break even.

  • http://www.harborlink.net/locations/cityzones.html hoodoo

    A lot of cities already have a form of free wireless encompassing entire downtown areas and colleges. I’ve used them and they work great. A company called Harborlink in Ohio builds the networks for some of the cities. But it sounds like these guys have much larger goals than downtown.

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