SF TechConnect WiFi Franchise: Video of 6/12 hearing - includes Esme Vos and Greg Richardson, privacy, disaster tolerant, interference, dig. inclusion, fiber

[kimo]

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

[Mike Outmesguine]

Wow. This is so enlightening!

I just finished watching. Thanks for forwarding this on to the list.

Btw, here is a direct link to the video:
http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=8&clip_id=2069

-Mike

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Blogged here:
http://www.wifi-toys.com/wi-fi.php?a=articles&id=108

+no serious consideration of a Municipally owned solution no
+consideration of creating a Disaster Tolerant solution to allow the