Of kimo
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 3:01 PM
To: SOCALWUG
Subject: [SOCALWUG] SF TechConnect WiFi Franchise: Video of 6/12 hearing -
includes Esme Vos and Greg Richardson, privacy, disaster tolerant,
interference, dig. inclusion, fiber

includes testimony from Esme Vos of MuniWireless.com and Greg Richardson of
Civitium.com

To see activists concerns which discuss concerns like:

+Interference on unlicensed spectrum
+no explaination on how the system will provide 90% indoor coverage for
all citizens - this is a big problem.
+concerns about providing a service funded in part on the privacy of
citizens
+300k speed is a joke even in Africa
+Fiber study continues to be 4 months out (it seems to be 4 months out
at every meeting)
+no funding for digital inclusion
+no needs analysis, no business case, no Radio Frequency Study -
(Civitium now says one will be completed in the next few weeks) - yet a
vendor Earthlink/Google has already been selected
+is this similar to Amazon.com offering to outsource city libraries in
exhange for access to checkout records and profits to a corporation outside
the city?
+no serious consideration of a Municipally owned solution no
+consideration of creating a Disaster Tolerant solution to allow the
public to communicate after a calamity

Click:
http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=8

Select BOS City Operations and Neighborhood Services 6/12, skip to 1 hour,
14 mins to see activist's response to city plans