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Freeee? Did you say FREEEEEE?
If they can do it SF, they can do it anywhere. As usual, digital inclusion plans fomented by government and big companies (mostly, telcos) are about eight steps behind the technology.
To recap: Anybody is a journalist, and no one controls the printing presses. We have entered a decidely new blip on the geologic time scale.
"Established Internet service providers will be watching the development of San Francisco's municipal wireless broadband network with great interest and no small bit of trepidation, now that Google has offered to take on the project at no cost to the city. On Friday, the company submitted a proposal for a mesh network that would blanket the city with some 1,000 wireless access points. That's about 30 access points per square mile, a density that would ensure all areas of the city -- a topographical nightmare for WiFi architects because of its many hills and valleys -- would receive a good signal. The network would support speeds of about 300 kilobits per second. That's slower than broadband, but significantly faster than dial-up -- and a hell of a deal when it's offered at no cost to consumers used to paying their phone companies and cable operators upwards of $40 a month for Internet service. That's a worrisome proposition for telcos, who have been demonstrating their distaste for municipal Internet services like the one Google proposes for some time now." (GMSV)
If they can do it SF, they can do it anywhere. As usual, digital inclusion plans fomented by government and big companies (mostly, telcos) are about eight steps behind the technology.
To recap: Anybody is a journalist, and no one controls the printing presses. We have entered a decidely new blip on the geologic time scale.
"Established Internet service providers will be watching the development of San Francisco's municipal wireless broadband network with great interest and no small bit of trepidation, now that Google has offered to take on the project at no cost to the city. On Friday, the company submitted a proposal for a mesh network that would blanket the city with some 1,000 wireless access points. That's about 30 access points per square mile, a density that would ensure all areas of the city -- a topographical nightmare for WiFi architects because of its many hills and valleys -- would receive a good signal. The network would support speeds of about 300 kilobits per second. That's slower than broadband, but significantly faster than dial-up -- and a hell of a deal when it's offered at no cost to consumers used to paying their phone companies and cable operators upwards of $40 a month for Internet service. That's a worrisome proposition for telcos, who have been demonstrating their distaste for municipal Internet services like the one Google proposes for some time now." (GMSV)
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