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McCaw's Wireless ISP Begins Trial Run This Summer
prostoalex writes "Wireless legend and billionaire Craig McCaw is moving into broadband wireless business with his new company. ClearWire will launch the service this summer in Jacksonville, FL and St Cloud, MN. The offerings will include 512 kbps, 786 kbps and 1.5 Mbps plans. Pricing is not revealed yet, but Business Week cites industry insiders claiming it's going to be in $40-50 range. ClearWire will rely on WiMAX (802.16) technology."
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Interesting to see that all of your Anonymous Coward replies are written in low-caps... how remarkable. ;)
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Why was this posted? the poster might be getting paid, so I can see their motive, but why did timothy post it?
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi president Ronald Reagan was found dead in his Bel Aire home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Wireless broadband could be the killer of neoliberalism. I am no networking expert, but it seems to me that with widely available wireless broadband, it could cause broadband to drop sharply in price, or at least more price pressure downward on broadband in general, as it would eliminate the "last mile" costs.
For those not "in the know," neoliberalism might be roughly defined as American-style capitalism, complete with globalization, lack of universal healtcare, and with a weak social safety net. Some European countries have a weaker form of neoliberalism. The Scandanavian social democracies are farther away from neoliberalism. Socialism is even farther away.
I propose that Neoliberalism has been, and can only be, maintained through the use of mass media propaganda, and virtually one sided propaganda at that. It depends on high-barrier-to-entry mass media (TV, radio and urban newspapers). I would say that neoliberalism rise tracked the growth of such mass media, and the ownership consolidation of such.
The internet could kill neoliberalism, just as it is, IF more Americans were into in-depth reading. But they are not. THerefore, the leftist propaganda that would be needed to kill neoliberalism needs to be audiovisual, either talk radio, or video in the form of movies, dramas, TV sitcoms, documentaries, which could be used to propagate anti-neoliberal, leftist memes. For example, movies that highlighted the differences between European social democracies and America, in terms of political economy.
With ever-decreasing prices in digital movie cameras and video editing software being virtually free, such movies, documentaries etc, could be made cheaply.
But how do you distribute them?
In the near future, we will have ever-cheaper computers. And if broadband gets cheap, then P2P networks could be used to distribute freely leftist movies propagating leftist memes. I realize this is already possible, but the problem is that not enough people have broadband and computers.
Once Americans are turned away from neoliberalim, it will die, as it is the military might of America that is the protector of neoliberalism.
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Take the Slashdot filters off and look at all the comments. Slashdot has become speech unfriendly. We need a real alternative .
Alot posts are being censored. Slashdot is sucking again. Metamoderate All overzealot moderators!!!!!
The parent post I am replying to was modded as flamebait, but it is not! You judge; here it is:
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Municipal Wi-Fi network is the way to go.
Municipal Wi-Fi network is the way to go. (Score:0, Flamebait)
by zymano (581466) on Saturday June 05, @08:49PM (#9347513)
Not private companies that want to use OUR airwaves to GOUGE people that don't have a choice.
Have any of you ever wondered why the government has not been more active in fiber to the curb or support a public Wi-fi network? It's because the present president is owned by $pecial $$ interest (oil companies included,haliburton)
The government is the only entity that can get costs down for LARGE projects such as this and keep prices down.
Kerry campaign people need to get more knowledgable on wireless broadband and include it with their fiber to the curb plans.
Broadband by government is the only way we will ever get the 100 megabit lines to our homes and businesses.
It sickens me to see private companies doing what the government should be doing . But the government can't since Bush is firmly against any government projects unless it is to make himself and cronies $$$$$.
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McCaw's WIreless ISP Begins Trial Run This Summer
Wireless Networking | Posted by timothy on Saturday June 05, @08:23PM
Ask Slashdot: Is Caps Lock Dead?
Hardware | Posted by timothy on Saturday June 05, @07:21PM
Caps lock is dead...no- wait, someone accidently left it stuck on when writing their headline! No, that was just the shift key, damn...
(If this makes no sense at all the editors have probably fixed the extra capital letter there)
(If this makes sense but I should have RFTA because it's actually called McCaw's WIreless ISP, then that's a stupid name and should be derided accordingly)