Re: Lots of cities (Score: 0)
by Anonymous Coward in Communities taking back their broadband destiny from big telecoms on 2016-11-27 13:39 (#2347F)
Order via a web page? Select the speed?
What would it look like once everyone starts broadcasting?Very high frequencies have long been considered undesirable because they don't penetrate through or go very far around walls, trees & leaves, hills, curvature of the earth, etc. In fact they're greatly attenuated even by just the oxygen and light moisture in the atmosphere. Plus the millimeter wave band is extremely wide, leaving a big open space for everyone to fit-in without competing with each other. These features that makes them undesirable for one-way broadcasting of TV/radio and long-distance coverage, also makes them ideal for high-speed, short-range, two-way cellular communications, where people a mile away don't want or need to pick-up the signal at all.
Next question, which I didn't see answered in TFA -- is it going to be available not locked to Tracfone? Verizon is good here but my Verizon account is a lot cheaper than Tracfone.Yes, probably locked for 1yr. HOWEVER, Tracfone has several services you can choose from. PagePlus is a VERY popular option right now, even among people not locked to Tracfone's network. Their $27/mo plan w/1GB looks pretty good, and you can go as low as $30/yr paygo plan for minimal usage, though $80/yr is a more practical minimum.
The "home offices" being improvised on street corners with homeless and loiterers camped out on overturned newspaper stands around the cityThat sounds like exactly what they should be trying to do. It is very literally helping "break down the digital divide." If they didn't want people using the kiosk for the internet, then why did they ever turn them on to begin with?
Jerry Brown is elected governor and all kinds of crazy ensues.So you're suggesting California was good and perfectly sane back when Arnold Schwarzenegger was the elected Governator of the state?