-----Original Message-----
From: "Dawn DiPietro"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 1/10/07 1:22:52 PM
To: "WISPA General List"<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Muni networks, the good, bad and ugly
Brad,
Here is a link you might want to read up on.
http://muniwireless.com/municipal/1556
Regards,
Dawn DiPietro
Brad Belton wrote:
>I'll agree with Mark on this. There are many that are exploiting city
>counsel's across the country to only line their own pockets. I have read
>about one muni-wifi failure after another...point me to a real success
>story. As a percentage my guess is the failures far, far outweigh the
>successes.
>
>If a city wants to drive business and people to their community then how
>about offering free water or free garbage pickup instead of free Internet.
>How about offering lower taxes?
>
>Let the city offer something free to drive people into the community that
>EVERYONE can benefit from. After all the Internet is only for the 'rich',
>right? <grin>
>
>Brad
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>Behalf Of Dawn DiPietro
>Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:21 AM
>To: WISPA General List
>Subject: Re: [WISPA] Muni networks, the good, bad and ugly
>
>Mark,
>
>Many if not most RFP's today require a percentage of accounts be
>discounted heavily or given away for just the reasons you are describing.
>
>The term "Digital Inclusion" is used in this document to describe the
>goal of expanding the capabilities of computing technology worldwide to
>better serve social and economic challenges of underserved communities,
>both rural and urban.
>
>If you would get off your own train and look around and maybe read a
>thing or two on this subject maybe you would understand this a little
>better.
>
>Regards,
>Dawn DiPietro
>
>
>
>Mark Koskenmaki wrote:
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Peter R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
>>Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:13 AM
>>Subject: Re: [WISPA] Muni networks, the good, bad and ugly
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>>>There are numerous studies that demonstrate that towns that lack
>>>broadband are economically deficient compared to towns with broadband.
>>>Job growth, tax base increase, home value stability, higher per capita
>>>income.
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>>The economic deficiency drives the lack of broadband, not the other way
>>around.
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>>You can't raise the dog to life by wagging it's tail.
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>>I live in one of those towns, and have many of them in the region
>>surrounding me. Broadband is not the issue. The economic conditions are
>>driven ENTIRELY by other factors. Just like poor roads don't help, a
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>lack
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>>of connectivity may be some hindrance, but building a superhighway to a
>>depressed community will simply NOT create magic. Broadband brought to
>>these places may have some neglible impact, but the lack is not the cause
>>of economic problems, nor will provisioning it "fix" things.
>>
>>Unfortunately, too many people are riding this train. Politicians are
>>holding it out as a "fix" ( BB access has never hurt a town's economy, of
>>course) for things when it isn't, and lots of businessmen are exploiting
>>that for thier own pocketbooks. The people who are being sold this are
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>the
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>>unwitting victims. They need real solutions to other real problems, and
>>ignoring them and offering fashionable modern services as a fix is a red
>>herring...
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