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

<http://www.theregister.com/2006/08/16/wifi_net_neutrality_lessig/>

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
(http://www.lessig.org/blog/) 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.

...

"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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In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, John Navas
<(E-Mail Removed)> 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.

><http://www.theregister.com/2006/08/16/wifi_net_neutrality_lessig/>
>
> 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
> (http://www.lessig.org/blog/) 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.
>
> ...
>
> "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.
>
> [MORE]
>

fundamentalism, fundamentally wrong.

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:51:50 GMT Rico <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
| In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, John Navas
| <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
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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.

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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(E-Mail Removed) (Rico) hath wroth:

>Do people in the bay area just never get in their cars and drive out of the
>bay area?

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.

>None seem to have any grasp of reality a few hundred miles away
>from the silly cone valley.

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.

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On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:55:51 -0700, Jeff Liebermann
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
<(E-Mail Removed)>:

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

LOL!

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