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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco Mayor Gavin “The Mousse” Newsom...said on Monday he considered wireless Internet access a fundamental right of all citizens. ...not just to business professionals but also lower-income citizens.
“This is a civil rights issue as much as anything else,"
Yeaaahokay, Gav. Ya can tell folks what to do with their private property and how to run their businesses, but wireless internet access is a right. Gotcha....
But....
Google most likely would find partners to actually build and operate a municipal wireless network, said Esme Vos, founder of the Web site MuniWireless.com and a researcher of municipal wireless projects. What Google would bring into the equation is money, she said. Google could build a system delivering ads to Web users in specific locations, which could be determined through information from the access points. Background data about a user’s characteristics and interests could target those ads even more precisely, she added.
Advertisers would pay Google a premium to deliver highly focused ads to those users, Vos believes, and the builder and operator of the network would get a piece of that revenue just for providing the transport of data packets.
Just like the early phone companies shelled out to build the infrastructure so folks would sign on to pay for phone service, and the Cell fone companies built their infrastructure; the Wireless market is wide open.
This may be A Good Thing™
UPDATE: More here
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