[CWN-Summit] RE: CWN-Summit Digest, Vol 2, Issue 9

[Bart Preecs]

I would love to hear what people on this list think about this skeptical
analysis of the potential for municipal & community wireless.  /Bart
Preecs

http://www.slate.com/id/2106657/
Barbed Wireless
Why high-speed Net access won't be free.
By Paul Boutin
Posted Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2004, at 9:03 AM PT 

The Philadelphia city government recently announced that it will launch
a citywide wireless network by the spring of 2006. The plan is to mount
up to 16 Wi-Fi routers per square mile on streetlights in order to
provide "some level of free wireless Internet access to everyone living,
working or visiting the city." Boston and Madison, Wis. are also
considering citywide Wi-Fi that's free, or at least cheaper than DSL.
You might think this means that wireless will be free everywhere in a
few years. You'd be wrong.




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   1. UTX, OTARD Uh-Oh! (Harold Feld)


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Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 17:43:40 -0400
From: Harold Feld <hfeld at mediaaccess.org>
Subject: [CWN-Summit] UTX, OTARD Uh-Oh!
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Folks here may have seen the Slashdot piece on the University of TX at 
Dallas' policy shutting down "hidden" access points.  I have written  up
my 
analysis on my blog, Tales of the Sausage Factory, at
http://www.wetmachine.com

Harold



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