[Air-L] how do you build a new internet

[Conor Schaefer]

Right, but Google is also going to be deploying a internet connections, 
most likely via wireless (perhaps wimax, depending on how soon they get 
it off the ground). They'll be using all the dark fiber they've bought 
up as well as their vast number of blackboxes around the country... and 
this certainly will not be free, at least not from the standpoint of 
freedom! It'll very likely by dollar-free, though, which is an 
interesting contrast to Microsoft's likely course of action. One must 
choose the lesser of two evils, no?

Michael Baron wrote:
> I believe there are a number of major corporations (Microsoft included) that
> are trying to develop a so-called "NGN (Next Generation Network). However,
> there are a number of issues associated with it.
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> The simplest but yet the most comlex of them all is "who is going to pay for
> the maintanance and upgrades?" Right now, the Internet is free to use (ISP
> charges are for connection not for use of the network really). If Microsoft
> develops a private network of this kind, I doubt it is going to be "free for
> all".
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> On 8/2/07, Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu> wrote:
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>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/01/news.internet/print
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>> Jeremy Hunsinger
>> Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,
>> School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>> (www.cipr.uwm.edu)
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