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Why ADCo?
Ian Peon writes: "Phoenix center recently released a study (pdf or doc) addressing the 'Last Mile problem.' The paper explains why no one has yet been able to crack the cable and phone providers' local monopolies -- and offers a solution: An ADCo (Alternative Distribution Companies) business model.
SF Gate has a good article on this."
This first post is a victory for Aryans everywhere! Fight against the Jewish FP seizures!
Never heard of it before?
You should post that KPMG song. That would be funny.
Overheard at a M$ presentation today: Microsoft to provide free support with virus problems associated with Microsoft products.
Call 866-PCSafety (866-727-2338) or visit here Phone excerpt: "Welcome to Microsoft Technical Support...this number has been established to assist customers with virus-related issues." Gaah! Still calling them issues?? I suppose they could have renamed M$-supported viruses to something like Microsoft Covert Replicating Autonomous Processes.
Laying extra lines is stupid. Very stupid.
Laying conduit is smart. Very smart.
Laying cable is stupid. Very stupid.
Laying conduit is smart. Very smart.
This post is a blatant ripoff of an earlier post to the same article. Please mod down!
You'll have a hard time wresting that resource away from the telcos' cold, dead hands.
A novel idea though. This would be a great way to move to an all-data network. Plus it would let local communities decide how important net access is to them. Some counties spend lots of money keeping their roads new and free of potholes. Others may decide to solve their traffic problems by having their citizens telecommute!
How exactly would the different providers/tiers interact? Would it pan out to a tiered approach, where you had some companies handling the backbone traffic, and others handling local traffic... buying and selling bandwidth to each other? In that case we would need regulations to keep any one company from buying too much of a certain pipe, hence monopolizing data flow to a certain area.
If companies instead bought slices of the entire picture, where would interaction between companies happen? Do we have regulations that force DataDelivery(tm) to talk to BitBoys(tm) at the local level, or would we still have to deal with unecessary ping times as data travels to my next-door neighbor's house on a 300-mile, 14hop trip? Would the "Data Corps" have any economic incentive to spend time and resources setting up connections with peers at multiple levels?
Interesting concept, but realistically it'll never happen.
what law? the article wasn't even about a new law, just a new type of company.
rain, sleet, snow, hail, tornadoes, birds, limited frequency, and insecure data transmission through open air.
See war driving.
I always thought the easiest way to do it was for everyone to write their address on a ping-pong ball, tie a fiber optic cable to it, and flush it... reeling out cable as needed.
;-(
Eventually, the ping-pong balls should come out at some central point... just connect up the cables to a hub of some sort, and you're all wired up.
Of course, you have to sit in the bathroom to use the internet