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Re: Guerilla Internet Service Providers (fwd)
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> > It seems to me that phone line costs are turning into a floor price for
> > Internet access, when they shouldn't really be. The main asset telephone
> > companies have, right now, is in RIGHTS OF WAY. Put an ISP in a business
> > park that allows you to run your own dedicated copper pairs, and you've
> > bypassed $25/month/line business phone line charges.
> >
> > At some point, individual urban and suburban blocks could easily be
> > "guerilla re-wired" for ISP access without serious trenching, etc. The
> > phoneco would still be involved, but in a far lower-profit mode, as the
> > supplier of a single T1 to a multi-block area.
>
> For the "last mile" to the ISP user, wireless could be a better bet.
> Have antenna, will surf.
I can easily visualize mobile and portable systems linking to an ISP,
downloading email via encrypted POP/UUCP/whatever, using itinerant 2m or
450 MHz frequencies. A mobile system connects to any ISP, gets a login:
prompt, enters "[email protected]", gets thrown into a POP session on
host.domain, uploads/downloads, then disconnects. All it would really
require is implementing "exec rlogin -l xyz host.domain" into getty (a
very simple patch) and suitable crypto protocols...
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