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SF Wifi More Than Flipping a Switch
An anonymous reader writes "News.com is carrying a story looking at the costly rollout of the Google/EarthLink SF Wifi project." From the article: "EarthLink said it expects the project to run to between $6 million and $8 million in initial costs, which include attaching radios and receivers to utility poles throughout the city. Within 10 years it expects the whole network, complete with upgrades and maintenance, to cost about $15 million. Finer financial details of the project haven't been made public, but the plan calls for EarthLink and Google to contribute to the initial cost of building the network. It's not clear what the split between the two companies will be. Once the network is built, Google will pay EarthLink for access to the network on a wholesale basis. In order to make access free to people in San Francisco, Google will use revenue generated from local advertisements to pay for access to the EarthLink network."
And on a related note, is anyone else getting pissed off at the slashdot flash ads that are writing themselves over the page? I can adblock them, but seriously, do the admins think these ads are a good idea on a site that routinely rips on them? Someone's been drinking the crazy juice.
Boo! Someone get the hook!
What if the entire Universe were a chrooted environment with everything symlinked from the host?
So what is this google tagging thing ?
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.
OK since people can't read between the lines obviously...
My refrence to single access points is about the advancement of technology. I didn't mean to suggest that people would actually want/need this technology.
For God's sake... if these people are THIS critical of such a comment I can only imagine some of the other posts they feel the need to be so critical of.
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