Hi: Think about presenting the idea of a local broadband infrastructure to your local mayor. If the mayor likes the idea, the next step is to meet with his tech advisor. Open-mesh.com appears to sell wifi that each house can use to establish community wide local broadband infrastructure without Internet access. Units priced at $29 per house, one-time fee. With the local broadband infrastructure in place, the city can coordinate with ISP that wants to gain access to the broadband infrastructure to provide affordable pricing. If not, then the community can set up virtual world, and work within the community. This "last mile" is actively legislated as illegal at the community and state level. The local hospital can gain access to the infrastructure for telemedicine programs in return for affordable Internet access. Grocery stores can offer "branded" network services, etc. Since each community connects to other communities through WiMAX, it doesn't take long to connect a state, and bypass ISP/Phone/Cable thugs. Legally, your mayor will be told quickly by the telecoms that you can't do this community initiative. No need for you to pay a lawyer, yet. Happy Holidays, Tom Poe, Eden Valley, MN On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 14:16 -0600, Sean Waite wrote: > Who do I call for legal advice? > > Sean Waite > swaite at sbn-services.com > (612) 669-8858 > > > > At Wednesday, 22-12-2010 on 14:09 Ryan Coleman wrote: > I had " Subject: Re: [tclug-list] tclug-list Digest, Vol 72, > Issue 29" which is normal for "r j" to not actually give his > emails a subject when he replies in digest mode. > > On Dec 22, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Samael wrote: > > > seems to be the same subject to me. it is an alternative to > > what ron johnson had suggested. thank you for your advice > > though. i will keep it in mind next time i want to change > > the subject. > > > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Ryan Coleman > > <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote: > > Just changing the subject line so people can > > follow. > > > > On Dec 22, 2010, at 1:17 PM, Samael wrote: > > > > > fcc opend up bandwidth for public use. we could > > > make a wireless mesh network consisting of > > > multiple antena and start our own internet. > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:43 PM, r j > > > <ronsmailbox5 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Back to the air for me. > > > Any one else Interested in metro wide > > > public Wimaxx? > > > ,RJ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list