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Re: Silicon Valley throwing in towel on pan-WiFi project?

Dave — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:59:49 -0000

Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network is a network of people, not a project. It has no authority to grant rights of any sort for the proposed project. They bit off more than they could chew with this one.

Re: Silicon Valley throwing in towel on pan-WiFi project?

toutratus — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:01:40 -0000

And what about trying another solution like Whisher, where private would share their Wifi acess? If only a small percentage of the population would share its network, you'd get ubiquitous access fore free...

Re: Silicon Valley throwing in towel on pan-WiFi project?

Egfrow — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:21:08 -0000

...but they never clarified how exactly it would work, and who was going to pay for it.

That's how most not-for-profit pipe dreams end up, they forget to figure out who's going to pay for it.