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Brilliant also insisted that Cometa had to make deals with corporations, not individual road warriors. "We need to sign them up 50,000 at a time," he says. If consumers use the service, it will be through potential partners like AOL Time Warner (parent of TIME) or EarthLink. Cometa would still be in charge of the infrastructure, but the Cometa brand would be invisible to Joe Public. Software developers would work directly with the providers to produce different flavors of Cometa...
...services you use, no matter where you go?" Ease of use and ubiquity, in other words--or something close to it--are the grails of the wireless world, just as they were in the early days of the Internet. "I always had this view as I was building EarthLink," Dayton says. "Why should I have to be near a plug? Why shouldn't the Internet just be present at all times where...
...service providers are more aggressive. EarthLink sells 2Wire hubs to its existing broadband customers, charging $100 for the wired version, $250 for wireless. Networking cards for each PC are $50. Customers must install the gear, but for $9.95 a month they get unlimited phone-based technical support and a promise that no matter what the trouble is--poor network connection, faulty router--EarthLink won't pass the buck. Gateway, a PC manufacturer that also sells broadband services and networking equipment, goes a step further: for $399, it will send a technician to your house to install the equipment and configure...
...electricity and natural gas in North America, Europe and Asia. Last month's announcement by Mirant, once known as Southern Energy, that its third-quarter earnings had more than doubled those in last year's third quarter coincided with the announcement that Fuller was named to the board of Earthlink...
LIGHT FANTASTIC Even as most Internet service providers are hiking their monthly rate--Earthlink bumped its rate $2 in June, and AOL did the same in July--one service is bucking the trend. BlueLight www.bluelight.com has announced that it's cutting prices from $9.95 to $8.95 a month, making it the cheapest national unlimited-use ISP. It's all relative, however. This time last year BlueLight was free...