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Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill]
From: Bill Stewart <nonobvious () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:24:43 -0800
On 11/12/05, Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:
Google is calling their offering "basic Internet access" and "premium service." Is "basic Internet access" different than "internet access?" Google doesn't really define what they mean by these terms.
The article in the Palo Alto Daily News had the amount of technical precision you'd expect from a non-technical free newspaper (:-) It said that for Google's proposed service in Mountain View, free service will be limited to 300 kilobytes/sec and you can get faster service for a fee, and if you want to use it inside your home you'll probably need a $100 exterior antenna. I'm guessing that the Google person actually said "kilobits", but I'd be pleasantly surprised if I'm incorrect. It also didn't say anything about terms and conditions (I'm guessing spamming isn't permitted) or how much privacy you'll get (vs. data-mining) or about whether it's real internet service or just the kind of couch-potato information-consumer imitation Internet service that most of the cable companies offer, which doesn't let you run servers or send email directly.
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- Re: What do we mean when we say "competition?", (continued)
- Re: What do we mean when we say "competition?" Matthew Crocker (Nov 17)
- Re: What do we mean when we say "competition?" Henry Yen (Nov 26)
- Re: What do we mean when we say "competition?" Robert E . Seastrom (Nov 26)
- Re: What do we mean when we say "competition?" Steve Sobol (Nov 26)
- Re: What do we mean when we say "competition?" Owen DeLong (Nov 26)
- Re: What do we mean when we say "competition?" Steve Sobol (Nov 27)
- Re: What do we mean when we say "competition?" Deepak Jain (Nov 26)
- Re: What do we mean when we say "competition?" Sean Donelan (Nov 27)
- Re: What do we mean when we say "competition?" Henry Yen (Nov 30)
- Re: What do we mean when we say "competition?" (was: Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill]) Marshall Eubanks (Nov 16)
- Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill] Bill Stewart (Nov 14)
- Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill] Christopher L. Morrow (Nov 12)
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- Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill] Tom Vest (Nov 12)
- Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill] Christian Kuhtz (Nov 12)
- Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill] Tom Vest (Nov 12)
- Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill] Sean Donelan (Nov 12)
- Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill] Christopher L. Morrow (Nov 12)
- Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill] Owen DeLong (Nov 10)
- Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill] Gordon Cook (Nov 11)
- Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill] Stephen Sprunk (Nov 17)
- Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill] Sean Donelan (Nov 17)