<font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Hello McTim,</font></font></font><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:19 AM, McTim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Siva.<br>
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy<br>
<<a href="mailto:isolatedn@gmail.com">isolatedn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> VNL's present focus appears to be cellular telephone services while Village<br>
> Telco's interests lie in Wifi / mesh networking.<br>
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</div>The mesh potato is designed to do telephony, can do data, but not<br>
optimised for it.<br>
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> If these disruptive technologies are used to provide Internet Access<br>
> solutions, there is a possibility of solutions beyond telecom dependent<br>
> networking.<br>
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</div>indeed.<br>
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> Village Telco's business model (of retaining profits for rural and informal<br>
> settlements rather than feeding a telco) is an indication that<br>
> telco-independent infrastructure and business models are feasible.<br>
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</div>That's the plan.<br></blockquote><div><br>Lauren Weinstein has posted a message in his NNsquad list, which is interesting in a different way. This is about Google's announcement of a 1 GBPS ( possibly more) ultrahigh speed broadband network in 'a small number of' trial locations across the US with Fiber to Home connections provided to upto 500,000 people.<br>
<br>Google Blog <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html</a> promises "We'll operate an "open access" network, giving users the choice of
multiple service providers. And consistent with our <a href="http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/search/label/Net%20Neutrality">past
advocacy</a>, we'll manage our network in an open, non-discriminatory
and transparent way."<br><br>Google has already experimented with citywide WiFi in Mountainview, so Google would also be in a position to combine its own WiFi expertise and the expertise from O3B which was initially funded by Google to include rural connectivity at comparable speeds. Google's networks would very possibly be telecom-independent. <br>
<br>Good. Very Good.<br><br>Sivasubramanian Muthusamy<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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</font><div><div></div><div class="h5">Cheers,<br>
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McTim<br>
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A<br>
route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>
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