batageek
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join:2003-01-25 | reply to ninjatutle
Re: Whoa
GoogleFi is not MuniFi any more than FIOS is municable |
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ninjatutle
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San Ramon, CA | They will be when they open shop in San Francisco. If they can't provide Mt. View with decent service, they'll have fun in San Francisco. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | yeah, Mountain view is fairly flat... they just have the sites too far apart for decent use.
I used MetroFi when I was in Sunnyvale, and wasn't impressed, but then again it was ad driven, proxied and not as reliable as dialup. |
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batageek
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no...muni is muni provided...muni assets, muni employees, muni billed, etc....
public/private venture is different. Leasing city poles/r.o.w. does not make one a muni provider.
MetroFi is not muni wifi. Earthlink in Philly is not muni-fi. Utopia in Utah is not muni broadband really as they can't provide any retail services. Muni infrastructure owner yes, but not muni broadband. Want examples of the real deal, try Thomasville, GA or Kutztown, PA.
This is just a continuing misnomer pushed by an uneducated press. This is as backwards as the FCC calling everything over 200k "broadband." |
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