This is a nice movement to try and allow a mass number of people access to affordable fast internet. But i feel that instead of demanding between 12 and 16 billion dollars from the government over the next 10 years there are plenty of other things that 12 to 16 billion could go to, like higher education nation wide or implementing mass bio fueled heating plants like what might be considered for NMU's campus.
I feel that in today's day and age it costs well say a best case scenario, 500$ to buy a laptop with wireless internet on it. This 500$ laptop might not be the best and fastest but then with this cheap laptop every coffee shop and McDonald's offers free wi-fi. In Marquette and in my home town of flushing there is a local coffee shop and McDonald's withing a 20 minute walk from my home. Stage one is handled getting internet to the public, stage two might be a little harder. With more people on the internet the hardware, servers, etc will need to be made more capable of handling all these other people taking advantage of free wi-fi from small businesses. If a business is going to use free wi-fi as an incentive to attract customers, possibly a fee or tax on their internet seeing as they are supplying for other people and not just employees.
This is a nice movement to try and allow a mass number of people access to affordable fast internet. But i feel that instead of demanding between 12 and 16 billion dollars from the government over the next 10 years there are plenty of other things that 12 to 16 billion could go to, like higher education nation wide or implementing mass bio fueled heating plants like what might be considered for NMU's campus.
ReplyDeleteI feel that in today's day and age it costs well say a best case scenario, 500$ to buy a laptop with wireless internet on it. This 500$ laptop might not be the best and fastest but then with this cheap laptop every coffee shop and McDonald's offers free wi-fi. In Marquette and in my home town of flushing there is a local coffee shop and McDonald's withing a 20 minute walk from my home. Stage one is handled getting internet to the public, stage two might be a little harder. With more people on the internet the hardware, servers, etc will need to be made more capable of handling all these other people taking advantage of free wi-fi from small businesses. If a business is going to use free wi-fi as an incentive to attract customers, possibly a fee or tax on their internet seeing as they are supplying for other people and not just employees.