[94458] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Jan 23 12:02:55 2007
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: Your message of "Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:18:09 CST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:44:04 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:18:09 CST, Brandon Galbraith said:
> 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?).
Especially in rural areas (where physically reading meters sucks the most due
to long inter-house distances), you have no guarantee of good cellular coverage.
The electric company *can* however assume they have copper connectivity to
the meter by definition....
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