Yep, or maybe the government can start giving me my electricity, water, phone, and food for free too!
-- James Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dustin > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 5:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [nycwireless] Philly wants to be the biggest hot spot > > > Big telecom has been fighting municipally financed telecom > infrastructure through legal and legislative channels for > years. Mostly > the focus has been on preventing local gov from deploying broadband > fiber plant that can be shared by providers. I guarantee they > will fight > this with everything available. > > - Dustin - > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Can't believe no one else sent this yet. > > > > > http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/09/01/wireless.citie s.ap/index.html > > > > PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- For about $10 million, city officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world's largest wireless Internet hot spot. > > The ambitious plan, now in the works, would involve placing hundreds, or maybe thousands of small transmitters around the city -- probably atop lampposts. Each would be capable of communicating with the wireless networking cards that now come standard with many computers. > > Once complete, the network would deliver broadband Internet almost anywhere radio waves can travel -- including poor neighborhoods where high-speed Internet access is now rare. -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.745 / Virus Database: 497 - Release Date: 8/27/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.745 / Virus Database: 497 - Release Date: 8/27/2004 -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
