Comments on: Don’t Let Politics Stop Free WiFi http://actlocallysf.org/blog/talkingpoints/2007/05/10/dont-let-politics-stop-free-wifi/ Just another actlocallysf.org weblog Sat, 17 May 2008 07:21:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: Scott Sjoberg http://actlocallysf.org/blog/talkingpoints/2007/05/10/dont-let-politics-stop-free-wifi/#comment-345 Wed, 16 May 2007 09:36:05 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/talkingpoints/2007/05/10/dont-let-politics-stop-free-wifi/#comment-345 By delaying this vote yet again, Chris Daly is doing San Francisco citizens a huge disservice. Like has already been reported, implementing the Google/Earthlink deal will save me, and many other SF citizens millions of dollars by paying nothing, or only $22 a month for the same service that is now costing me almost $50 through Comcast. I have tried using DSL 2 times before in my apartment, but it always ended up being too unreliable, so for now, I am stuck with Comcast. I can not understand how anyone could possibly think that it would be better to have the city spend millions of our tax dollars to build and maintain a City-Run Wi-Fi system instead of having Google/Earthlink pay the city 2 million dollars for the privilege of offering us all free or inexpensive city-wide Wi-Fi service. If you had to call someone with a customer service problem or question, who do you really think would do a better job with helping you... a Earthlink service representative, or a city-run automated call center where it would be almost impossible to talk to a real person? Any city-run Wi-Fi system would just be another expensive bureaucratic nightmare like Muni. Just like Mayor Newsom, I am "perplexed" why Chris Daly would keep postponing this Wi-Fi vote. Could it just be because Mr. Daly automatically opposes and stonewalls any great ideas proposed by The Mayor, or could it be because Mr. Daly is receiving payola from companies like Comcast and T-Mobile to purposely keep delaying the implementation of city-wide Wi-Fi so that those companies can keep taking money from SF citizens like me for as long as possible?<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 1</li> </ul> By delaying this vote yet again, Chris Daly is doing San Francisco citizens a huge disservice. Like has already been reported, implementing the Google/Earthlink deal will save me, and many other SF citizens millions of dollars by paying nothing, or only $22 a month for the same service that is now costing me almost $50 through Comcast. I have tried using DSL 2 times before in my apartment, but it always ended up being too unreliable, so for now, I am stuck with Comcast. I can not understand how anyone could possibly think that it would be better to have the city spend millions of our tax dollars to build and maintain a City-Run Wi-Fi system instead of having Google/Earthlink pay the city 2 million dollars for the privilege of offering us all free or inexpensive city-wide Wi-Fi service. If you had to call someone with a customer service problem or question, who do you really think would do a better job with helping you… a Earthlink service representative, or a city-run automated call center where it would be almost impossible to talk to a real person? Any city-run Wi-Fi system would just be another expensive bureaucratic nightmare like Muni. Just like Mayor Newsom, I am “perplexed” why Chris Daly would keep postponing this Wi-Fi vote. Could it just be because Mr. Daly automatically opposes and stonewalls any great ideas proposed by The Mayor, or could it be because Mr. Daly is receiving payola from companies like Comcast and T-Mobile to purposely keep delaying the implementation of city-wide Wi-Fi so that those companies can keep taking money from SF citizens like me for as long as possible?
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]]> by: Eugene Leung http://actlocallysf.org/blog/talkingpoints/2007/05/10/dont-let-politics-stop-free-wifi/#comment-343 Tue, 15 May 2007 22:47:28 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/talkingpoints/2007/05/10/dont-let-politics-stop-free-wifi/#comment-343 Some of the supervisors are not doing things for the San Franciscan. The WiFi plan that is very good for the people who is living here. The elections for the supervisors has to be changed back to city wide election, this way everyone here has an chance to elect their supervisor.<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 1</li> </ul> Some of the supervisors are not doing things for the San Franciscan. The WiFi plan that is very good for the people who is living here. The elections for the supervisors has to be changed back to city wide election, this way everyone here has an chance to elect their supervisor.
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