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Technology Stocks : The *NEW* Frank Coluccio Technology Forum
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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (14139)3/13/2006 4:11:58 PM
From: fred g  Read Replies (2) of 46821
 
People who don't know the details are good at making generalizations that don't meet reality:

> Last week, NY City Councilwoman Gale Brewer noted that NY and Boston were among the last remaining big cities that still were without a viable cityscale wireless agenda. She noted that Boston had the perfect opportunity to lay the backbone and site its antennas throughout much of the city during its recent Big Dig project, but failed to capitalize on it for unspoken reasons....

The Big Dig is a set of tunnels running underneath downtown Boston and out to East Boston (where the airport is, across the harbor). Now let's think about this. Where do you put antennas? In a 70-foot-deep tunnel? Uh, no thanks. And while the Big Dig was hugely costly, it only ran through the most congested parts of the city. There are plenty of tall buildings there to put antennas on, if anybody wanted to. The costly part of an unlicensed wireless buildout is to cover the more spread-out residential areas.

I'm not convinced that citywide WiFi makes much sense anyway. The 2.4 GHz band is pretty noisy already, so there'd be plenty of interference with the access points already in homes and businesses, as well as with other signals on the band.
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