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Re:Alphabet wants to deliver Internet access via laser beams by kevin_b_er on Friday December 15, 2017 @12:21PM (#15933329)
Less cable installation. Put it on a pole pointed toward the tower and you're done. It'd be nice in the US where the corporate cartels like Comcast/Charter/Verizon can't as easily blockade access to internet by manipulating control over utility poles through bribery of local and state officials.
Re:Alphabet wants to deliver Internet access via laser beams by gruez on Friday December 15, 2017 @12:49PM (#15933573)
nice laser link, would be a real shame if we built a tower in between...
Re:Alphabet wants to deliver Internet access via laser beams by knicholes on Friday December 15, 2017 @01:58PM (#15934123)
I'm thinking that it'd be cheap enough to route the beam around a tower that this would be cost prohibitive, but it made me laugh.