On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Andrew Ratike wrote: > It's encouraging to see that this stuff is spreading. There's an ISP in the > Hutchinson area (http://www.xtratyme.com/services.html) that rolled this > close to two years ago, utilizing what looks to be the same equipment and > their coverage area is increasing rapidly. The up-front equipment costs are > what have put me off, but they are/were charging $29.95/mo for the same > service which seems like a heck of a deal. Last I heard (I live near Hutchinson sometimes) Xtratyme was going to /dev/null in a hurry. Maybe they've managed to bring themselves back out of it. I have to wonder how these "wireless only" companies are really doing. Wireless is not for everybody, especially with the > $350 equipment price tag. Aside from businesses and power users wireless doesn't make sense. It's to expensive for Joe Average. I still want to know exaclty what happened to Ricochet, I have a hunch that the equipment costs nailed them. -Brian