[94456] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Harrowell)
Tue Jan 23 11:43:29 2007
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:26:10 +0000
From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: "Brandon Galbraith" <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>
Cc: "Daniel Golding" <dgolding@t1r.com>,
"Niels Bakker" <niels=nanog@bakker.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <366100670701230818g6eb19444yb5b6f3a42b946759@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Why don't utilities strike deals with celluar providers to push data back to
> HQ over the cellular network at low utilization times (how many people use
> GPRS in the dead of night?).
>
> -brandon
Enron did this with SkyTel paging in California. Or rather they wanted
to do it, couldn't hack it, so used the bulk-bought pager airtime as a
perk.
