[wsfii-coord] Wired article on mesh

[Jim Forster]

> http://wired.com/news/technology/0,71608-0.html?tw=wn_index_1
>
> One more showing up tomorrow in re: the summit/workshop. The media  
> ball is starting to roll.

That's great!

Just to remind everyone not to believe something just because it's  
"in print", this part of Xeni's story is, I would say, a wild  
exageration:

> Attempts to deploy similar community wireless networks in America  
> have been blocked repeatedly by national phone carriers. It takes a  
> big company like Google to build citywide Wi-Fi networks (the  
> company launched its first in Mountain View, California, this week).

It's true that phone companies have tried to block some of these  
nets; in some cases they've succeeded or caused unfortunate and silly  
restrictions.   It's also true that some of the efforts to block  
municipal nets have been blocked.   At any rate, municipal wireless  
networks are springing up like weeds this year, and that's on top of  
a base of 4,000 - 6,000 small private commercial Wireless ISPs,  
generally in rural areas.

   -- Jim