At 08:45 PM 9/25/2007, Frank Keeney wrote: >Where I live, here in Pasadena, I have cheap DSL at home, EVDO on the move. >Most homes have access to two telcos (yes, two local telcos on our telephone >poles!) and a cable company. So there are at least 3 different physical >methods for anyone here to get inexpensive Internet.
What is the inexpensive range to you? $1 a month? 5? 10? >retail/business areas with a spectrum analyzer and it's very noisy! Say, what brand SA? Laptop based? Ranges? Cost? >I really like volunteer activities like http://www.socalfreenet.org, get >people involved with their community. > >My preference is to let the entrepreneurs build these networks (or >volunteers), they'll spend a great amount of energy understanding their >customer. Better yet, they will create multiple revenue streams, soliciting businesses needing such, particularly the city and county departments. >Building smaller city wireless networks seems to make sense to me. Wireless, >in parks, rest areas, community centers and other places that foster >community. I do not see the revenue from those sources, but I totally agree such would be subsided. I'd put a slash screen soliciting donations. Or even a donation strong box on the premises. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SOCALWUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SOCALWUG SOCALWUG website: http://www.socalwug.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
