John Kim wrote: >> One of the wealthiest communities around, and the gummit is going to >> offer Internet access for free, to provide citizens a higher level of >> access? Do they not already have this? >> > > My reading of the RFP is that the project won't cost taxpayers any money -- > the company providing the service will do it so that they can charge a fee > for premium service (probably higher bandwidth, email server, webserver, > etc). I don't know if that makes it less distasteful to you. > > >> I'm probably in the minority here, bit I do not like the idea of >> government sponsored net access. >> >> Brian >> > > How would you feel about just a group individual community members > organizing themselves to do it for their community? > > John > > > _______________________________________________ > SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List > To unsubscribe, please visit: > http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org > I saw that there will be a free level and a premium level. They may have a zero cashflow regarding billing, if the bid winning company absorbs all the costs, and claims to use premium revenues to fund the thing; I just don't buy that is the case though. Plus they'll have to supervise the project at some level, that costs money as well. If it were a citizen sponsored thing, inevitably there will be someone paying for bandwidth and someone else getting it for free. I personally would not accept that, but if the person providing bandwidth is OK with that one way equation, then so be it. Now the projects where someone close to a CO buys a fat pipe and the resells bandwidth at a fair price to those closeby, that sounds fine. I just can't be onboard with giving away something of value for free, somewhere in the chain, it has to be paid for.
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