[wsfii-coord] Wired article on mesh

[Vic Cris]

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/18/dalai_lama_issues_su.html

More from Xeni, this time on Boingboing, on HH's
letter of support. 

--- Jim Forster <forster at cisco.com> wrote:

> >
>
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
> 
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