Perhaps there is another part of this business we are missing. Time Warner Cable, here in Kansas City, is installing a wireless system into the Country Club Plaza. The Country Club Plaza is a trendy shopping area of upscale restaurants, shopping, and businesses. It is designed after a shopping area in Italy. It's where out of towners go when they're visiting, or where you take your out of town visitors when they are in town. The wireless area will be about 20 blocks by 20 blocks. The way I read the article in the newspaper, it will be free to all of their land based internet subscribers (roadrunner.kc.com), and have a daily fee of $9.95 or monthly fee of about $45 for non-subscribers. I don't think they expect to do many daily or monthly fees, they are using it to build customer loyalty among their wired interent service subscribers. Perhaps MOBL missed the boat ( or now they see it), where they could sell their expertise in buildouts and managing those systems. They should have had feet on the street at the cable companies long ago. You can bet that Time Warner's competitors in the area will be doing the same thing. And they will be playing catch-up, and will need someone that already knows that they are doing, not just trying to learn.
