[LUAU] Ubuntu... Legalities

[Maddog]

Piladelphia's wi-fi rollout ispretty small. I looked it up yesterday. They 
want to expand it but since they offer free 24x7 tech support I would bet 
that the costs will outweight the benefits.

Google has teamed with Earthlink to offer a combo model, free ad supported 
or for pay with no ads. As I stated earlier, a few ISP's tried that model 
with no success. Even so, it is a business model and if you think about it, 
ad supported wi-fi is not "free". In order for it to stay "free" they either 
have to turn a profit from the ads or turn a profit from the subscriptions.

MD
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Newsham" <newsham at lava.net>
To: "LUAU" <luau at lists.hosef.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: [LUAU] Ubuntu... Legalities


>> Compared to the rest of you, my knowledge of such things is very limited, 
>> so this may be an embarrassing question. Are there any city or state 
>> governments trying to do this as a service for their citizens? If so, 
>> have any of them been successful? Will the Net eventually evolve into 
>> something like roads and sidewalks?
>
> Not embarrassing.  Remember: there are no stupid questions, just stupid
> people..
>
> The city of Philadelphia is trying to roll out free wifi.  Google wants to
> roll out free (ad supported) wifi in SF.  There are various community
> efforts in many cities to offer free wireless hotspots.  There are
> probably more efforts that I'm unaware of.
>
>> --Peter
>
> Tim Newsham
> http://www.lava.net/~newsham/
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