[M4IF Discuss] Ad supported MPEG-4 Content & use fees

[Paul Sergeant]

For anyone interested in this 'peer2peer free wireless internet' from the 
UK perspective try looking at www.consume.net
I also heard someone say that it costs our incumbent telco operator in the 
UK more to track and bill 'per minute' telephony usage than it does to run 
the whole network.
Regards
Paul
At 17:06 05/03/2024 -0800, you wrote:
>On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 04:50 PM, Jordan Greenhall wrote:
>>3. Logistical nightmare.  Particularly for the very large content
>>providers.  They already have enough headaches tracking SAG fees, do
>>they really need to track and report MPEG-4 fees?  One interesting
>>proposal I've heard here is a cap on the delivery fee as well.  "One
>>Check" is something that might make sense.  Let us pay some fee and
>>figure out how we can make money against it.
>
>On that front, this article seems relevant:
>
>http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/garfinkel0302.asp
>
>>I spent eight months as the “chief scientist” for an Internet startup 
>>called Broadband2Wireless.  Our company tried to build a high-speed 
>>wireless Internet service that could be accessed in cities throughout the 
>>United States, South America, Europe and Asia. We were going to do it 
>>using unlicensed portions of the spectrum and with wireless network 
>>equipment that employed a hot new standard called 802.11. And we were 
>>going to charge no more than $50 a month.
>>
>>Of course, we failed. We had $30 million in funding; we needed $200 million.
>>[...]
>>One of the most surprising things we learned from launching our Internet 
>>startup was that providing wireless Internet service is really cheap. 
>>What ended up bankrupting the company were all the ancillary services we 
>>had to develop—credit card billing, technical support, the corporate Web 
>>site and the various security measures we had to put in place to prevent 
>>unauthorized use of the network by nonsubscribers. Organizations that 
>>aren’t trying to make money providing wireless Internet service can do 
>>away with all of these measures and offer the service for free.
>
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