| supportive, but spectical This plan may be a little optimistic. Offering free Internet service to an entire city, while a lovely idea, is costly and extremely difficult. I wonder where this revenue and coming from and if it is in fact coming from extra revenues, where have those revenues been going?
I am all for municipilization of broadband as I think I've made clear in this forum many times. However, I don't know that I'm so keen on free broadband access for an entire city. Is the fiber infrastructure already there to do it? There are many logistics questions.
For now, it has one hand with a thumb up and the other with a pad in my hand. I'm sure I'll be writing alot about San Fran's decision in the coming months. |
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| do you have any idea how small sf is? its roughly 4 miles across. With that kind of size they could literally just put a linksys high gain on a tall building and get range for up to half that distance easy.
also this wireless system is supposed to be similar to that used in the northwest rural areas and allow the police to quickly download information about suspects on the fly. |
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1 edit | "San Francisco is barely in the planning stages of a new city-wide Wi-Fi system, the city's mayor open to ideas on how best to "unwire" all 49 square miles. "
49 square miles is alot more than 4 miles across.
And yes, I know how big San Fran proper is. I lived there for 3 years. |
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