RE: [nycwireless] Philly wants to be the biggest hot spot

[Daniel Thor Kristjansson]

I hear some of those commies have even installed free roads and
sidewalks! Some cities even contain parks and libraries open to the
public.

-- Daniel

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Jim Henry wrote:

]Yep, or maybe the government can start giving me my electricity, water,
]phone, and food for free too!
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]James Henry        [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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]> -----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
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]> 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 -
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]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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]> > Can't believe no one else sent this yet.
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]> >
]> http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/09/01/wireless.citie
]s.ap/index.html
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]> 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.
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