[Tfug] DakotaCom and Gain Merger.

[Bill M.]

Jon,
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> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 16:30:19 -0700 (MST)
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> Subject: [Tfug] DakotaCom and Gain Merger. Was  Simply Bits? - Strike
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> So did everyone hear about the merger of DakotaCom with GainWireless.com?
> Funny at so many levels that I can't think of where to begin. Wait, let me
> take a stab at it. Here is a quote from the owner when I worked there,
> "There is no money in a WISP". I must have heard that 50 times after Dako
> was purchased by UltraSW. *sigh*
> 
I recently dealt with Dakotacom in their new guise as a subsidiary of
Nationwide.net -- the way I understood it, Nationwide owns Dakotacom and
Dako still does their local tech support. [I was going to use them for
DSL service for my mother-in-law on the far Eastside of town at $25.99
because Qwest kept flip-flopping on the price: $21.95 if done via the
web, $26.95 otherwise, then the $21.95 deal disappeared from the web
site, then phone sales said DSL is now always $21.95. We went with Qwest
and MSN <sigh>.]
GAIN was cool back in the mid-90s -- they used to offer a free account
for BBS operators. I had that for a few years and then shut down the thing.

-*-Bill