Wi-Fi in Philadelphia, Victory in the Air
BBC NEWS Programmes Click Online Wi-fi venture tests Philadelphia
Presently Wi-Fi offers the only way up the back trail and over the pass avoiding the outrageous (and clearly illegal anti-trust violation) tole-gate, set by the phone companies, blocking reasonable and competitive growth in Internet access. The Philadelphia experiment is a seminal event in the Information Revolution, in the growth of our economy and in personal productivity.
This morning Comcast announced a 6% rate hike while the entire information economy advances competitively and profitably under the paradigm of Moor's Law, doubling band width and halving cost in repeating short intervals . Could anything be more clearly monopolistic and destructive than the phone company's collective blockade of consumer access at engineered, valorized and outrageously high fixed prices? Please read the well written BBC link.
"Victory in the air!"
Presently Wi-Fi offers the only way up the back trail and over the pass avoiding the outrageous (and clearly illegal anti-trust violation) tole-gate, set by the phone companies, blocking reasonable and competitive growth in Internet access. The Philadelphia experiment is a seminal event in the Information Revolution, in the growth of our economy and in personal productivity.
This morning Comcast announced a 6% rate hike while the entire information economy advances competitively and profitably under the paradigm of Moor's Law, doubling band width and halving cost in repeating short intervals . Could anything be more clearly monopolistic and destructive than the phone company's collective blockade of consumer access at engineered, valorized and outrageously high fixed prices? Please read the well written BBC link.
"Victory in the air!"
posted by Clancy Hughes | 12/05/2005 08:59:00 AM
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