[IP] more on S.F. stalling Wi-Fi plans, Google executive charges (why are they surprised djf)

[David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Tom Gray <tom_gray_grc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 25, 2006 9:53:52 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx, tom_gray_grc@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more on S.F. stalling Wi-Fi plans, Google executive  
charges (why are they surprised djf)


I attended a talk by a vendor of WiFi equipment for
municipal applications on Friday. He discussed the San
Francisco issue specifically. According to him, the
issue was with the backhaul technology planned by
Google. This would provide a choke point that would
greatly limit the bandwidth available to individual
users. Other more expensive back haul technology does
not suffer from this issue.

--- David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Pittsburgh?
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: "A.Lizard" <alizard@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: September 23, 2006 1:53:02 PM GMT+02:00
> To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: S.F. stalling Wi-Fi plans, Google
> executive charges (why
> are they surprised djf)
>
> At 04:08 AM 9/23/06, you wrote:
> Perhaps it's time for Google to find a smarter city
> or county
> government to do business with and bail out of SF. I
> doubt they'd
> even have to go out of the San Francisco Bay Area to
> find one.
>
> A.Lizard
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Farber [mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 10:34
> > To: ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [IP] S.F. stalling Wi-Fi plans, Google
> executive charges
> > (why are they surprised djf)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
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> > From:   Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Date:    September 16, 2006 2:52:47 PM GMT+02:00
> >
> > To:       Dewayne-Net Technology List
> <dewayne-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject:            [Dewayne-Net] S.F. stalling
> Wi-Fi plans, Google
> > executive
> >
> >              charges
> >
> > Reply-To:          dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> >
> > S.F. stalling Wi-Fi plans, Google executive
> charges
> > ·         Verne Kopytoff, Chronicle Staff Writer
> >
> > Saturday, September 16, 2006
> >
> >
> >
> > An executive for Google Inc. says San Francisco’s
> plan to offer free
> > wireless Internet access to residents is being
> delayed by a slow-
> > moving city bureaucracy five months after the
> company won a high-
> > profile contract for the project alongside partner
> EarthLink Inc.  In
> > an interview with The Chronicle, Chris Sacca, who
> leads Google’s
> > special projects, voiced frustration with what he
> called the city’s
> > slow negotiating style. Sacca said that talks to
> come up with a
> > final  contract have advanced little since they
> started and that
> > officials  have made unreasonable demands,
> including a request for
> > free  computers and a share in revenues.
> >
> > “Every meeting is like the first,” he said.
>
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