In the end this book shows the disconnect between Washington and Silicon Valley. I spent last week in Orlando, covering the efforts of 6,000 ISPs to evolve into something more stable . The backbone industry is already too capital-intensive for most small ISPs, and the local access business requires a real broadband strategy. The show itself would please Goldilocks. CLECexpo was too small, with tiny booths offering squirrelly deals that made sense until you thought them through.
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Get their critical data on your server and they can't leave. But the big lesson came at the end, from John Davies, vice president for e-business marketing with Intel Corp . Your Clue is - there's plenty of money to go around. No one is suing them, and users like them. The danger is the lack of an economic model.