[Davisgig] Public (free) wifi at parks, downtown

[Scott F]

I saw some mention of this in the archives somewhere but have we talked about this since? I think providing free wifi could provide an immediate and much appreciated return on investment. Also a very good selling point. 
Scott Fuglei 



> On Apr 15, 2015, at 3:51 PM, Steve McMahon <steve at dcn.org> wrote:
> 
> I seem to recall from the old Telecommunications Commission days that UCD has a survey (or list) of apartment buildings with very large numbers of students.
> 
> It occurs to me that these apartment complexes might be great opportunities for early deployment. They're going to have a very high connection density, making for rapid payback.
> 
> I believe that in South Korea, a common mechanism for apartment buildings is to take fiber to the apartment buildings then use a very high-speed, short-distance version of DSL to use twisted pair to apartment buildings. I wonder if that's feasible here. I'd love to find a way to make big apartment complexes early supporters of this project.
> 
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Robert Nickerson <rob at omsoft.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Met with the UCD Director of Communications Resources, the Director of the Network Operations Center, and 3 of the senior network operations staff.
>> 
>> They are good with the project, and have offered to "help" The form this help could come in, would be coming to City council,
>> Volunteering to do an outreach event, and interconnecting with us on completion of course.
>> 
>> If anyone else can think of other ways they might be able to "help" let us know.
>> 
>> So cautiously optimistic that a major instituational partner for this
>> would be "on board"
>> 
>> Thx
>> -- 
>> Rob Nickerson
>> 
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