SF TechConnect WiFi Franchise: Video of 6/12 hearing - includes Esme Vos and Greg Richardson, privacy, disaster tolerant, interference, dig. inclusion, fiber

includes testimony from Esme Vos of MuniWireless.com and Greg Richardson of
Civitium.com
 
To see activists concerns which discuss issues like:
 
+Interference on unlicensed spectrum
+no explaination on how the system will provide 90% indoor coverage for all
citizens - this is a big problem.
+concerns about providing a service funded in part on the privacy of
citizens
+300k speed is a joke even in Africa
+Fiber study continues to be 4 months out (it seems to be 4 months out at
every meeting)
+no funding for digital inclusion
+no needs analysis, no business case, no Radio Frequency Study - (Civitium
now says one will be completed in the next few weeks) - yet a vendor
Earthlink/Google has already been selected
+is this similar to Amazon.com offering to outsource city libraries in
exhange for access to checkout records and profits to a corporation outside
the city?
+no serious consideration of a Municipally owned solution
+no consideration of creating a Disaster Tolerant solution to allow the
public to communicate after a calamity
 
Click:
http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=8 
Select BOS City Operations and Neighborhood Services 6/12, skip to 1 hour,
14 mins to see activist's response to city plans


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