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County-Wide Wireless To Be Deployed in Michigan
alien88 writes "Late last week, the Washtenaw County Board approved Wireless Washtenaw Advisory Board's recommendation of 20/20 Communications to cover the entire county with wireless by the end of 2007. This includes Ann Arbor, the home of University of Michigan and future home of Google's Adwords division. The wireless network will be free for speeds up to 85kbps and $35/month for 500kbps. 20/20 Communications estimates it will take around 6,000 radios to cover the county.
This initiative is being funded without taxpayer dollars and is one of the most ambitious wireless deployments in the U.S. Will it succeed or will it fail? Check out the county's wireless website for updates on the project." Of course, the real reason this is worth posting is it's because this is the county where Rob, myself and a number of the others live.
This initiative is being funded without taxpayer dollars and is one of the most ambitious wireless deployments in the U.S. Will it succeed or will it fail? Check out the county's wireless website for updates on the project." Of course, the real reason this is worth posting is it's because this is the county where Rob, myself and a number of the others live.
I lived in Ann Arbor for 5 years and just moved to Austin, Texas for graduate school. Damme!
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...this is the county where Rob, myself and a number of the others live in.
... and work as professional editors.
People who disagree with you are not automatically evil, greedy, or stupid.
I felt a great disturbance in the Network, as if millions of Washtenawans suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
...and here I thought Michigan was in Canada.
Like a suburb of Saskatewan, right?
LegendMUD
...and your shriveled gonads.
Within 50 years, we will all be mutated by the constant bombardment of Wi-Fi, cell, and high voltage lines. Those of us who survive the cancer anyway.
Scare tactics? Tinfoil hat material? They said that about radon too. And asbestos. And lead. But don't you believe it; you just keep firmly pressing that cellphone right up against your temporal lobe. Keep buying houses right under those huge cell towers. (newsflash: they amp the power ridiculously high in order to get wider coverage; FCC never finds out). Enjoy your brief life as you are slowly cooked from the inside out.
Follow the money on the "studies" that have been done that claim that cell traffic is harmless. Now who would benefit from such studies?