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GREENlined = Net Neutrality? |
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| Because WiFi-NY does not rely on the cable/dsl "duopoly" to deliver service to its members, it can set its own policy over the "last mile" to be neutral. Since WiFi-NY is a
private Internet network, it purchases its bandwidth and internet connectivity "wholesale" from neutral carriers, and can extend that neutrality down the "last mile" to its members and stakeholders. In short, WiFi-NY is a third option to the cable/dsl duopoly, and a private, market-based solution to questions of "net neutrality". |
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| Date: 2006-08-27
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| When you get broadband internet from corporate providers, they own the cables that you use to connect to their service. This connection from the ISP to the customer is called the "last mile". The rules for how these lines can be used are written by those who own the "last mile" connection. With the digital convergence of television, telephone, and computer networks, the phone provider, internet providers, and television providers can now all compete in each others marketplace, and can choose to exclude or degrade access to competitors' services i.e. the phone provider's new television service gets excluded or degraded over the "last mile" owned by the cable company, and vice versa. Running a home server or other types of home devices may be restricted or blocked altogether. Net neutrality means that there is no such blocking or restriction placed on customer use unless there is abuse that harms others or the network, and that all content posted anywhere on any server is equally accessable as content posted on provider's owned systems. |
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| Date: 2006-08-27
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What is a pixel ad? |
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| Digital images are composed of tiny dots or elements called "pixels". The size and resolution of an image is expressed in numbers of pixels per area (inch, cm). The more pixels used to compse an image, the more detail that image contains. Pixel ads are web advertisements sold in blocks of 100 square pixels (this is the smallest recognizable size for a single letter or symbol). The more pixels the ad occupies, the more space it occupies on that page and the more detailed the image or content within the ad becomes. Each pixel ad contains a "mouseover" element that displays message or slogan, up to 50 characters long, and a link to the advertiser's website. GREENlined for WiFi! is based on one million by one million pixels. When the page is full it will contain a rich mosaic of pixels ads of various sizes, textures and colors, as well as a wealth of possibilities offered by our sponsors. |
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| Date: 2006-08-27
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Why Greenlined? |
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| "Greenlined" means to include, whereas "Redlined" means to exclude. The term "REDlined" originated when banks refused to lend money to buy or develop property in poor urban neighborhoods, which as a practice historically led to urban blight and disenfranchisement. Some lower-income neighborhoods lately can not get broadband internet services because last mile providers have not made the investment to install their lines and equipment there. Some would say those neighborhoods are "REDlined for Broadband!" Therefore "GREENlined for WiFi! Besides that, green means "go" and it also signifies "ecological". |
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| Date: 2006-08-27
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