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3 Responses to “You’ve Got Mail”

1. P. Lowery says:
   March 22nd, 2007 at 6:47 pm

   For business travelers I can see where this would be a major draw for a city. However, if all cities in CA offer free wi-fi, what will that do to existing cable and phone companies internet businesses?

2. Eric Brooks says:
   March 23rd, 2007 at 9:07 pm

   Your report on the ‘free’ WiFi deal being peddled by Google and Earthlink to San Francisco, says nothing about the core opposition to the deal, which shows that, in truth, the deal is a monopoly franchise give-away that will mire San Franciscans in cheap, slow, obsolete wireless service (not even fast enough for video and phone calls) for a locked-in 16 years; while other communities will fly past S.F. with high speed fiber optic based networks instead.

   For details see:

   http://our-city.org/campaigns/index.html

   and

   http://public.freemuni.net/

   Thanks,

   Eric Brooks
   Campaign Coordinator
   Our City
   http://our-city.org
   415-756-8844

3. Tim Shates says:
   March 24th, 2007 at 8:36 am

   I have raised this issue with my city and county officials. Currently there is a move afoot to create wireless internet access at county libraries. Although a good first step, I am concerned about filtering software and how it may affect performance.