Google wants us to have Free Internet

[Denmo]

Using all those dead airwaves we're gonna have as soon as TV goes completely digital.

http://freetheairwaves.com/

[Translucid]

Re: Google wants us to have Free Internet

so instead of blurry cinemax softcore we can get blurry youtube softcore?

[Valkysas]

Re: Google wants us to have Free Internet

it'd be nice, but not gonna happen.

[Zeroth]

Re: Google wants us to have Free Internet

If it was going to happen, it'd be awesome. You'd probably have to pay for it in some way, and it would probably take some time to implement. Think of what it would do to Internet companies.

[Toaster]

Re: Google wants us to have Free Internet

Which is why it won't happen. Too many people are making money off selling internet access, so giving it away for "free" wouldn't be the american/capitalist thing to do.

[Cutter De Blanc]

Re: Google wants us to have Free Internet

Game. Set. Match.

[The_Real_Crunk]

Re: Google wants us to have Free Internet

You can already kinda get free internet in alot of places. Alot of people dont put passwords on their wireless routers. Ive walked through town here with my PSP checking out where I could get online, and it picks up alot of routers, and most of them let me in.

Hell I have a Knights Inn and a crummy motel down the street, and I can pick up on their wireless from inside my apartment no problem. Ive mooched theirs in the past when mine has gone down for whatever reason.

[John Mora]

Re: Google wants us to have Free Internet

You can already kinda get free internet in alot of places. Alot of people dont put passwords on their wireless routers. Ive walked through town here with my PSP checking out where I could get online, and it picks up alot of routers, and most of them let me in.

Hell I have a Knights Inn and a crummy motel down the street, and I can pick up on their wireless from inside my apartment no problem. Ive mooched theirs in the past when mine has gone down for whatever reason.

OH I GUESS THAT MEANS ALL OF US CAN DO THAT THEN

[Caciss]

Re: Google wants us to have Free Internet

Move out of that farm house with your 32 brother and sisters.

[American Hero]

Re: Google wants us to have Free Internet

Sending Internet waves all over the place will surely give everyone cancer.

[John Mora]

Re: Google wants us to have Free Internet

Move out of that farm house with your 32 brother and sisters.

I can't. We're conjoined tridecatriplets.

[pinkymadigan]

Re: Google wants us to have Free Internet

Wow. That would lead to IP masking nightmares...


On a side note, there are several cities with city-wide free access all ready.

It'd be a huge counter attack if the ISPs all make their move to end net neutrality.

[Red Dragon]

Re: Google wants us to have Free Internet

Even if it was free 56k internet (or dare I say 32) it would be great for people that don't have any type of internet.

[The Toecutter]

Re: Google wants us to have Free Internet

The probability of this happening is large, but IMO, less than 50%.

If any movement toward free internet occurs(whether net neutrality is present or not), the major telecoms and even our own government will do everything in their power to prevent this, and they have far more resources than google does. There would be a huge legal battle.

[John Mora]

Re: Google wants us to have Free Internet

There would also be some kind of subscription service, regardless, to fill the vacuum.