Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
The BIG number in these discussions is the cost of the access line to
the hotel - the discussions on price of this single item for San
Francisco apparently ranged all the way from 10 KUSD to 80 KUSD,
depending (among other things) on the shortest period of time the
local-access company was willing to sell this service for.
It might be possible to find people to *partially* sponsor the terminal
room, by letting us set up a fixed-wireless link to their nearest
facility and route through their line. Less cash outlay for them, plus
it might let us sidestep the extra charges hotels usually (?) levy when
you bring in a phone line.
The problem would be getting a sponsor who's got that much spare
bandwidth in line-of-sight from the hotel; it'd probably mean the only
choices would usually be telecom providers. And any provider that close
to the hotel would be on the short list of people from whom to buy
access, so sponsoring us would be equivalent to giving away the line.
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