NEWS: Municipal WiFi is the new hope for Net Neutrality - thinker

Municipal WiFi networks could help beat US carriers and politicians in the battle over so-called "net neutrality," according to one leading campaigner

Stanford University law professor Larry Lessig

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has argued the WiFi clouds popping up across cites from Philadelphia to San Francisco could provide broadband access over the "last mile" between the internet cloud and users' doorsteps.

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"There's an explosion in municipal mesh networks... as you see the clouds exploding above the cities and people unify them, the last mile is solved. The last mile is provided free of proprietary control," Lessig said.

Wonderful clouds exploding imagery aside, the wireless networks aren't taking off with quite the speed that Lessig claims. Google only fired up its free WiFi service in Mountain View this week - close to a year after it first promised to establish the service. And, those hoping to use the service, have to sign onto their Google account, letting the ad broker at their traffic. Meanwhile, major cities have struggled to rollout networks and see their WiFi plans as multi-year efforts.

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John Navas
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Do people in the bay area just never get in their cars and drive out of the bay area? None seem to have any grasp of reality a few hundred miles away from the silly cone valley.

fundamentalism, fundamentally wrong.

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Rico

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:51:50 GMT Rico wrote: | In article , John Navas | wrote: | | | Do people in the bay area just never get in their cars and drive out of the | bay area? None seem to have any grasp of reality a few hundred miles away | from the silly cone valley.

The rest of the world ceases to exist to them. They don't even make network connections outside of the valley.

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phil-news-nospam

rico snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com (Rico) hath wroth:

Sure they do. I live in the other bay area, Monterey Bay. When the weather gets warm, the multitudes from Silly Clone Valley make the pilgrimage over the hill and pack the Santa Cruz beaches.

That's why they come to Santa Cruz. To get away from reality. Reality is optional in Santa Cruz. We even have a t-shirt that says "Keep Santa Cruz Weird". Yeah, I guess they would have to drive a few hundred miles to see anything real.

I dunno about net neutrality. Only a few net personalities need neutering.

Reply to
Jeff Liebermann

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:55:51 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote in :

LOL!

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John Navas

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