Re: [MLUG] Oh, no...

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Umm last I checked the American taxpayer has sunk billions of dollars 
into the telephone and data infrastructure. THAT is why these companies 
shouldn't be allowed to blackmail people into paying extra.

Let them though. It'll start a real war they don't want and can't win as 
communities and small businesses build wireless last mile networks and 
bigger companies like Google take the extra fiber that's available 
around the country and stitch it into their own highspeed data network. 
These networks could end up paying so that their customers can access 
the services of Google and other mainstream websites.

If Google and others joined together to form a network that was free, 
paid for by ads and services, and made building last mile wireless mesh 
networks easy by providing off the shelf equipment that was easy to use 
and affordable they could totally own the data, phone, and television 
networks within a few years time. Why wouldn't customers pick a better, 
newer, free network over their old pain in the ass providers that just 
want to charge them more? This seems like the phone and cable companies 
jumping into the same kind of quicksand that the RIAA, MPAA, etc have 
already found themselves in. Making yourself the enemy of technology and 
the consumer isn't bright.

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