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Citywide Networks Owe It to The Little Guy
Posted Jan 18th 2006 9:49PM by Michael Sciannamea
Interesting story in the New York Times by Glenn Fleishmann about community wireless
networking groups who get together to place antennas anywhere possible to create a wireless cloud. And, of course, make
wireless access available for free to anyone who wants it.
As we well know, the big cities are enlisting big companies to build citywide networks, and with their combined
economical and technological power, it's pretty much a given that these small collectives would be pushed aside.
However, the point is that these massive citywide projects wouldn't have even gotten off the ground
without groups like NYCwireless or Seattle Wireless making it possible for friends and neighbors to get
wireless access from each other and having the concept grow from there.
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1. But why? I don't understand...
Posted at 8:26PM on Jul 4th 2006 by Otsos