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@rr.com | reply to rit56
Re: native New Yorkers 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. |
