[Sosfbay-discuss] The End of the Internet?

[Andrea Dorey]

Cameron,
What about what Metrofi and others are doing in Cupertino, Sunnyvale, 
and Santa Clara (not to mention SF, etc.!) by putting up transmitters 
and telling people that access is FREE?  My house in Sunnyvale is 280 
feet from one of those transmitters, or so I've been told by Metrofi.  
What do you expect will happen in future?  Will the "free" go away?
Andrea

On Feb 4, 2006, at 10:58 AM, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
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> But that doesn't mean bandwidth is free.  We're just
> not paying for it right now.  (Routers and the staff
> to manage them and the fortresses they live in
> turn out to be the big cost.)  The telcos are locked
> in a price war with the cable TV companies,
> charging less than cost for residential broadband
> and the network behind it.  They're looking for a
> way to end that price war.  You're gonna have to
> pay something approaching the cost for movie downloads
> and podcasts and voice over IP.  Good.  It won't be
> True Cost Pricing, but it will be more real than the
> free bandwidth fantasy we're living in now.
>
> Cameron
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