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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?


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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


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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)







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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

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Subject:            [Dewayne-Net] S.F. stalling

Wi-Fi plans, Google

executive

             charges

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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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