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more on more on S.F. stalling Wi-Fi plans, Google executive charges (why are they surprised djf)
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:23:07 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Tom Gray <tom_gray_grc () yahoo com> Date: September 25, 2006 9:53:52 AM EDT To: dave () farber net, tom_gray_grc () yahoo comSubject: Re: [IP] more on S.F. stalling Wi-Fi plans, Google executive charges (why are they surprised djf)
I attended a talk by a vendor of WiFi equipment for municipal applications on Friday. He discussed the San Francisco issue specifically. According to him, the issue was with the backhaul technology planned by Google. This would provide a choke point that would greatly limit the bandwidth available to individual users. Other more expensive back haul technology does not suffer from this issue. --- David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:
Pittsburgh? Begin forwarded message: From: "A.Lizard" <alizard () ecis com> Date: September 23, 2006 1:53:02 PM GMT+02:00 To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: S.F. stalling Wi-Fi plans, Google executive charges (why are they surprised djf) At 04:08 AM 9/23/06, you wrote: Perhaps it's time for Google to find a smarter city or county government to do business with and bail out of SF. I doubt they'd even have to go out of the San Francisco Bay Area to find one. A.Lizard-----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 10:34 To: ip () v2 listbox com Subject: [IP] S.F. stalling Wi-Fi plans, Googleexecutive charges(why are they surprised djf) Begin forwarded message: From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> Date: September 16, 2006 2:52:47 PM GMT+02:00 To: Dewayne-Net Technology List<dewayne-net () warpspeed com>Subject: [Dewayne-Net] S.F. stallingWi-Fi plans, Googleexecutive charges Reply-To: dewayne () warpspeed com S.F. stalling Wi-Fi plans, Google executivecharges· Verne Kopytoff, Chronicle Staff Writer Saturday, September 16, 2006 An executive for Google Inc. says San Francisco’splan to offer freewireless Internet access to residents is beingdelayed by a slow-moving city bureaucracy five months after thecompany won a high-profile contract for the project alongside partnerEarthLink Inc. Inan interview with The Chronicle, Chris Sacca, wholeads Google’sspecial projects, voiced frustration with what hecalled the city’sslow negotiating style. Sacca said that talks tocome up with afinal contract have advanced little since theystarted and thatofficials have made unreasonable demands,including a request forfree computers and a share in revenues. “Every meeting is like the first,” he said.member The Internet Society (ISOC), The HTML Writers Guild. "You can't have in a democracy various groups with arms - you have to have the state with a monopoly on power." Condoleeza Rice, US Secretary of State Personal Website http://www.ecis.com/~alizard business Website http://www.reptilelabs.com backup address (if ALL else fails) alizard () gmail com PGP 8.0 key available by request or keyserver. Download PGP from: http://www.pgpi.org for e-mail privacy. Disaster prep info: http://www.ecis.com/~alizard/y2k.html ***Looking for INTELLIGENT new technology public policy alternatives? *** http://www.ecis.com/~alizard/technology.html ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as tom_gray_grc () yahoo com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at:
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