Re: Googlie Wifi

I think Google's Mountain View Wifi is the muni-wireless exception  
that proves the rule. It appears to have good coverage over most of  
the city. It's free and open to the public. Sam Churchill doesn't  
"keep hearing what a piece of shit" it is. [1]

So what does this prove? It proves that if you want to create these  
panacea, city-wide, free to you and me networks, something needs to  
be subsidized. Google isn't trying to turn a profit on Mountain View,  
even though they surely have some business case for it, and so  
they're able to build it to work, rather than building it to stay  
within an impossibly low budget.

This is where Community Wireless has an advantage: We're not a  
business, and we don't have investors to satisfy. We're building  
networks because we care about them, and we do it right because  
that's the only way they should be done.

Michael

[1] http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3342/9469/

On Aug 29, 2007, at 11:51 PM, Aaron Baer wrote:

> Happy Anniversary.. or something..
>
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/first-year-of-google-wifi.html
>
> ......and the network now handles over 300 gigabytes of data each  
> day, sent
> to over 100 distinct types of WiFi devices. Virtually the entire  
> city....
>
> Coolaid,
> A-
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