[GNUz] The Future of Community Wireless

[Rik Tindall]

Maybe we should ask these guys:

http://www.netstumbler.com/2006/06/14/google-forging-ahead-with-wi-fi-efforts/

(I esp. like it that "radiation concerns have been laid to rest. It 
turns out cell phones emit more powerful radiation than wireless radio 
equipment.")

Inevitably major dosh will be chucked at urban wifi here too - it's such 
an obvious channel where competing net services are _very_ slow growing.

Don Gould wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote:
> <'What content?'>
>> Next we ask: what does Citylink in Wellington carry around the city? 
> 
> Inter office wans
> media files - ad co's INL was the first customer
> Richard Naylor did explain it all to me once - about 80% of the traffic 
> is local, 15% national, 5% international

I think Don nailed it best when he said (*nix) education is the content, 
as an introduced basis of community. Otherwise the downhill slide in 
social values is all we've got..

(Yes, Darwin hasn't accounted for all us idealists just yet :)

Doing good stuff for info-consumers would most convince business too.

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