Hell, that's nothing. We now have *competing* pork here in SF -
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/041022/80/f52ip.html

Looks like Ammiano and Newsom are going head to head on broadband. Frankly,
I think both of them are whacked, although Ammiano slightly more for
proposing such an 80's style broadband plan of fibre to the home.

At the end of the day, if people want city-wide wireless broadband the free
market will provide it. There's no reason for the City of SF to pony up
money (that they don't even have) for such a risky venture. If they could
even complete one of these projects in 5 yrs, and/or less than double
over-budget it would be amazing. Meanwhile 3G, Wimax and other private
solutions will come online and make it a duplicate effort at best.

David

BTW - I see BARWN is averaging 2 users a day for the past year on the main
node. Not a good example of high demand for free wireless IMHO..



>I dunno if the SF project is pork, but this one sure looks like it:

>http://news.com.com/The+Texas+broadband+follies/2010-1028_3-5416297.html

>- -ken
>- ---------
>On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:15:39AM -0700, Art McGee wrote:
>> [Comments?--Art]
>> 
>> http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2004-10-13/news/smith.html
>> 
>> SF Weekly
 


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