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Re: peter lothberg's mother slashdotted

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Thu Jul 12 18:07:14 2007

Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:44:56 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20070712133910.B8475@sprockets.gibbard.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Steve Gibbard wrote:

> So, Peter, are you reading this?  I'm curious what the real story on the 
> economics here is.  How affordable is affordable?  What should we be 
> learning from this that would let those of us backwards people with DSL 
> connections cheaply move into the modern world?

It's a demonstration of backbone technology, not really access technology.

It just makes its appeal better in the media if you put it in your mothers 
house.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

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