more on Some Cafe Owners Pull the Plug on Lingering Wi-Fi Users

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall () gmail com>
Date: June 14, 2005 12:57:22 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] Some Cafe Owners Pull the Plug on Lingering Wi-Fi  
Users
Reply-To: joehall () berkeley edu


On 6/13/05, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:

> Some Cafe Owners Pull the Plug on Lingering Wi-Fi Users
>
> By GLENN FLEISHMAN [...]
>
> But lately, the subject of Wi-Fi - specifically, the cafe's move to
> cut back on the free Wi-Fi connection it provides for patrons'
> Internet use - has been impossible to avoid. "It's distracting," said
> Jen Strongin, a co-owner.

Hi Dave,

A good friend, Sean Savage, was quoted in this story and found this
story (and a few others in the same vein) to be making a mountain out
of a molehill.  Specifically, this slight trend to throttle WiFi in
cafes is wholly insignificant compared to the background movement of
cafes in general offering free WiFi... where the equilibrium will end
up, no one knows. More at Sean's blog:

Wi-Fi Cafes in the News: Look Again
<http://cheesebikini.com/archives/001103.html>

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
UC Berkeley, SIMS PhD Student
<http://josephhall.org/>
blog: <http://josephhall.org/nqb2/>

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