more on San Francisco receives more than 24 Wi-Fi bids

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Kenneth_Mayer () Dell com
Date: October 4, 2005 1:39:01 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: RE: [IP] San Francisco receives more than 24 Wi-Fi bids


Dave, something that occurred to  me as we move towards a society of
open wi-fi within the cities. What are they going to consider with
blocking inappropriate stuff?  Everyone is going to ask? Who will govern
this and decide what is good and what is not? Also, what happens when
someone starts to down load torrents on their laptop, the speeds they
are talking about are a lot faster than dial up? Anyone know of
anything?


Ken Mayer Jr
Advanced System Group
Dell Server and Storage Department

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Date: October 4, 2005 12:30:16 PM EDT
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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] San Francisco receives more than 24 Wi-Fi bids
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[Note:  This item comes from friend Janos Gereben.  DLH]

San Francisco receives more than 24 Wi-Fi bids Mayor calls free wireless
'a fundamental right'

Reuters
Updated: 8:06 p.m. ET Oct. 3, 2005
<http://story.sanfranciscostar.com/p.x/ct/9/cid/20134e53b4e12830/id/
85e4dd6d45f851e8/>

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco has received more than 24 separate
proposals to provide free, wireless Internet services citywide from
vendors including Web search company Google Inc., the city's mayor said
Monday.

City officials said participants ranged from Cingular, the largest U.S.
wireless carrier, to Atlanta-based Internet service provider EarthLink
Inc. to San Francisco wireless broadband start-up Feeva Inc.

In August, the City of San Francisco had issued a "request for
information and comment" to vendors interested in creating an affordable
wireless network available in virtually every nook and cranny of this
hilly city of around 750,000.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said his call for free wireless access
for all San Franciscans could be satisfied by a city-owned wireless
company, some form of public-private partnership or by completely
contracting to private parties.

At a news conference, he and other city officials compared wireless
access to other municipal functions like water, power and libraries and
called wireless Internet access to information a fundamental human
right.

"This is inevitable - Wi-Fi. It is long overdue," Newsom told a news
conference at San Francisco's city hall. "It is to me a fundamental
right to have access universally to information," he said.

The San Francisco mayor said he was seeking to promote free or low- cost
municipal wireless access in order to make the city more attractive to
businesses and residents. But he also cited its utility as an
alternative means of distributing information in the event of a natural
disaster such as an earthquake.

Chris Vein, director of telecommunication and information services for
the City of San Francisco, said the proposals involved a range of
different free or low-cost business models.

Only one company Vein declined to name had proposed an advertising
supported plan for free wireless access, he said.

That company appeared to be Google. A Google spokesman on Friday had
confirmed that its Wi-Fi access proposal could be funded through online
advertising.
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