baby_bear
@comcast.net | Heck with Alaska!
Come on Google! Chicago is your kinda town! 
Need something to shake up Comcast a bit. And the ever a sleep at the switch Ameritech/SBC. |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
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Avalon, NJ
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3 edits |  Because Google Hdqtrs right outside San Fran
Google SF Wi-Fi Envy
Why not Ketchikan, Alaska or a city near you?
Because Google Hdqtrs right outside San Francisco:
Google Headquarters
1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy
Mountain View, CA 94043
»maps.google.com/maps?q=mountain+···07&hl=en
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA | Go Google!
While I'm not *IN* San Francisco, it's just a short BART ride away. 
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steelgaze
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San Francisco, CA
clubs: | I live in SF
I'll tell you guys how it comes out .. I can't wait till it's up and running. |
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Tsume
join:2004-02-23
Johnson City, TN
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| Lol
Not much different than trying to get your speeds upgraded from your ISP.
Come on COX, why not San Diego or one of your other markets aside from DC/AZ?
See, the line works just the same :P
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calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
| Demo projects are sometimes for others....
Sometimes, when you're in a business, you realize that there is a need for other aspects of commerce in order for your business to flourish. However, you may for various reasons not want to become "dominant" in those fields, because you believe:
1. they would be distracting to your core business,
2. they might take too much capital,
3. they might not produce the margins your core business can, or
4. your core business might do better with a hotly competitive market in the other field.
Examples:
RCA radios needed broadcasters, so RCA started NBC but encouraged others to broadcast as well.
Kodak home movie film needed projectors, so Kodak encouraged Bell & Howell to develop them.
American automakers worked with gasoline and tire manufacturers to make gasoline and tires readily available.
Many computer and computer component manufacturers have encouraged development of standards and technology that they don't directly exploit, but which encourage sales of their core product(s).
I agree that Google COULD be starting on an ambitious course to provide Wi-Fi nationwide. On the other hand, they may have examined the business model and decided for various reasons that they'd prefer others do it quickly so that use of their core business will grow--but that someone needed to show how it's done and that there's money to be made from the ad revenue.
It's all speculation at this point, but speculation is fun, isn't it? (At least Las Vegas and Atlantic City think so....)
calvoiper
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mbkowns
Got Bandwidth?
join:2003-07-01
Riverside, CA | Damn that place! they get everything.... they got the recent DSL2 from sbc with speeds of 24mb down and 2 - 3 mb up!
Time to move...
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hinthinthere
@71.241.x.x
| Why not Louisiana, Missippi, Alabama
Where you'd think people might need more communications in liu of a local infrastructure meltdown... It would certainly get google LOADS of free press and a push forward right now. Free wifi in the french quarter! (and for not even a quarter!) |
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jackknife
join:2001-02-24
Phoenix, AZ
clubs: | reply to Tsume
Re: Lol
One can't expect much from Cox. They told me that I would be able to get cable in 1996. It still isn't here. |
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lynden9
join:2001-07-04
San Francisco, CA | Now I'm more proud to be a San Franciscan!
Thanks to Google! |
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koolman2
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join:2002-10-01
Anchorage, AK
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| I wouldn't mind...
I wouldn't mind if they decided to bring it to Anchorage (and Ketchikan). I mean shoot, who wouldn't like a free backup broadband connection?
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Tsume
join:2004-02-23
Johnson City, TN | reply to jackknife
Re: Lol
Ouch. Where do you live so I know where to not to move? |
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koolman2
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join:2002-10-01
Anchorage, AK | reply to dadkins
Re: Go Google!
I love BART. |
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ricep5
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Jacksonville, FL
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| Silicon Snobbery
These are the same general silicon snobs who think central California is the only place anything like this should be. A sign that the braintrust at Google are getting a little sheltered in their dough.
Like Microsoft and others before them, they suddenly start convincing themselves they can do things no else can.
Didn't the bubble teach these guys anything? Maybe they should move their HQ to someplace a little less clique.
If I was a shareholder, I would be beefing this one up. It's way beyond their core competency. |
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DavisPhotog
Flyingphotog
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join:2001-08-26
Oakland, CA
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| You used microsoft as an example.... Look at where they are now though! They may be a bunch of a$$hats, but they're rich a$$hats!
I don't think that google will get quite as far as microsoft in terms of domination of a large software market. Google certainly has the funds to do what they're talking about even if they don't turn a profit doing so.
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lvjonj
join:2002-09-22
North Las Vegas, NV | reply to lynden9
Re: Now I'm more proud to be a San Franciscan!
wow - WiFi and Mitchell Brother's - time to move! |
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not-a-Google-lover
@sonic.net
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Re: Silicon Snobbery
Google's proposal is (one of a dozen -- it should be pointed out) in response to a call from the City of San Francisco's to set up a free or low-cost wireless network to blanket the city.
The column cited for this topic is one man's opinion lamenting that the city government of Ketchikan doesn't have the foresight to do the same and put out their own call. Have they?
It would be one thing if Ketchikan does put forth a call and doesn't receive any bids, but so far, they haven't, so it's a more than a bit of a stretch to accuse Google of any sort of snobbery, or blame them for an inequality that may not exist.
Try again. |
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KnyghtMare
@mchsi.com | Just another market
I'm sure to Google this is just another market to open themselves upto. They already have a ton of stuff in the google labs. Google will run the world one day! |
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elias
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join:2000-07-24
Miami, FL
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| Google's Backyard
This is a perfect location for them because it's in their backyard. Why are they going to waste time sending people to Alaska?
"Hey, guess what... we're sending you to Alaska for 3 months!" ... yipee!!!
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jonjon602
join:2001-06-16
Union City, CA | yay
damm it kicks ass to live in "the city" (San Francisco) ... no republicans in sight, nice friendly "Liberal" people and FREE INTERNET TO THE MASSES! let the socialist revolution begin! |
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