Tuesday, January 7, 2003

Wireless Strings Local reporting on Long Beach downtown Wi-Fi rollout: The article notes a few interesting points not raised in today's New York Times: downtown users will be limited to an hour a day to avoid annoying merchants with cybersquatters, and much of the equipment was donated, which doesn't make this a precise model to follow for future rollouts. [80211b News] broadband IV: the endgame. As cable companies continue to increase the cost of broadband service, and as telcom monopolies are strengthened by changes in FCC policy, it is now absolutely clear what the broadband endgame will be in the US: wireless. Think of a city where every single street light is a node in a mesh (for an example, see meshnetworks), and thus where the cloud of the internet sits on the street like the fog in San Francisco. For almost nothing, cities could provide IP light, as cities provide street lights. Neutral, end-to-end, fast, and cheap. (Apologies for this uncharacteristically optimistic post. Just a preview of the moot.) [Lessig Blog] 5:04:03 AM

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