 rit56
join:2000-12-01
New York, NY
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| native New Yorkers the other poster besides me who lives here in New York is for this. I am in full agreement with the city providing FREE wi fi to every city resident. you people commenting have no idea of city life, how expensive it is living here and what a treasure it is. most of you are racists who feel that any sort of government assistance is wrong. that's bullshit. free wi-fi will enable every resident and business high speed access thereby allowing students better access to information and making business more competitive. it is a good idea for the City to do this. I have roadrunner. a basicplus package with tv and Roadrunner is over 100 bucks a month. I think that's a lot of money. free wi-fi? sure. Another thing you have no idea how much damn money we pay here in taxes. we pay Federal, State and CITY. that's right City tax as well. I pay a lot of money in City tax. I want this return on the City tax I pay, I am not poor nor on welfare and all you out of town people commenting it's none of your business. let them provide free wi fi to rich and poor folk. screw Verizon and Time Warner. There is another post here today that states a town in Pennsylvania has to get Verizons permission to wire itself? You don't think that is wrong?
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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
2 edits | said by rit56:the other poster besides me who lives here in New York is for this. I am in full agreement with the city providing FREE wi fi to every city resident. you people commenting have no idea of city life, how expensive it is living here and what a treasure it is. You do realize that by electing someone to senate who had previously lived in NYS as long as we have not once, not twice, but THRICE! ok maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration LOL) does open you up to this sort of criticism, but I digress 
said by rit56:There is another post here today that states a town in Pennsylvania has to get Verizons permission to wire itself? You don't think that is wrong? I'm pissed that they would be allowed to wire themselves up even if they got Verizon's permission.
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I wouldn't mind free wifi (paid by only NYC residents) as a backup or as a way to get net access everywhere. The only alternative is Verizon EVDO and that is just ridiculously priced. There is no reason why the city can't offer 128/64 service for basic browsing and downloading of attachments. Alot of people have laptops in the city as desktop replacements. TO the posters not from NYC you definately don't ahve a right to comment because you have no idea what it is like to live in the city. The taxes here are tremendous and there are no light broadband tiers so those of you with light tiers available you are also shouldn't be commenting. To the poster who made the telephone/dial up comment: almost everyone in NYC no doubt has telephone. I can't imagine someone without it here. So almost everyone can get free dial up as there are many free dialup isps around or keep leeching off of AOL or PeoplePC. I don't see how Broadband is going to change these people's carreers such that dial up wont. The only thing Broadband will do is lead to more P2P and cause these impoverished people more problems (nothing against P2P just the XXAA scumbags won't hesitate to pick on the poorest of the poor). I can see this as a problem of artificial competition, but Verizon and TWC's services are faster. People who want to do things with their connection other than check their email will buy it anyway. Those are probably the people on dial up now. This muni project won't do anything to companies bottom lines. I am pro muni because it will increase the availablity of wireless throughout the city so everyone can use it. If it were just a project to wire up the poor so they could have broadband and no one else I would be against it. |
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