On top of the telcos, I wonder if verizon/t-mobile/sprint/etc are going to come out of the woodwork to talk about their plans for 5 years down the road. Everybody, by then, should have a broadband competitor avaliable in the cell phone market. Might be interesting if they get annoyed that this could dilute their market. * Ben Kochie <ben at nerp.net> [050223 22:16]: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I am hoping we can push community involvement too.. the city of > minneapolis wants <monopoly of their choice> to install the > infrastructure. The reason for this is because they both got burned by > richocet and their rusting hardware. Hopefuly we can avoid this with St. > Paul. Unfortunately, several named monopolies, mostly comcast and qwest > both scream "BUT OUR JOBS" when people talk about city-wide wifi.. but > neither are smart enough to attempt doing it themselvs. > > - -ben > > "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends." > > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Haudy Kazemi wrote: > > >I'm interested in this...is Jon Kerr the person to talk to about getting > >involved, or is this more of a 'closed' group? I'm certainly for this > >project, provided it doesn't become something run by (insert private > >monopoly of choice here). I definitely do not want to see something like > >has happened in Philadelphia where the city is not allowed to do public > >wireless (IIRC this prohibtion came at the behest of Verizon). > > > >-hk > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFCHVOwfYg2asD844oRAkxPAJ9+3cyPYxhWgY7HMG7RaWajBTo0IgCffze7 > EZ7lpaFB+HKZ9vIKFb+MoSQ= > =+HVI > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota > tcwug-list at tcwug.org > http://mailman.tcwug.org/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list > -- Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> KC0OBS http://www.ringworld.org/ -- http://www.railworks.org/ -- http://publictransportation.org/ -- Stop "playing political splat ball," support the Northstar Train!