call me cynical, but i’m going to have to side
with this
astute analysis
of the
intel, at&t and ibm
backed company, called
cometnetworks
:
“It seems the owners are trying hard from the beginning
to make the operation of this company as expensive as possible. IBM
will benefit if every installation takes two hours instead of one.
AT&T will benefit if there is a per-megabyte charge on traffic,
and unstable equipment with a huge need for network management.
It’s not like a small operator that hangs a zero-maintenance
commodity access point off of an affordable residential DSL line,
but more like a replay of MobileStar/Starbucks. The burn rate is
there, as if this was 1999, but how much have they got to burn?Is this perhaps a sign that AT&T and IBM really don’t have
anything better to do? It seems like a stupid project, but perhaps
it was the least bad they could come up with? During the time
Cometa burns its venture capital, both AT&T and IBM Global
Services can show an increased demand for their services, perhaps
at a very high prices, which isn’t too bad these days. Only the VC
firms lose.”