"Free" Internet service

This article reminds me of the business models tried by Juno and NetZero during Internet Boom 1.0. There are a couple of notable, interesting wrinkles and questions here:

• Is there a value in a nationwide service? What about the municipal networks that are being built?


• Should government act as a venture capitalist by agreeing to M2Z's proposal to share revenues? What are the dimensions of this policy decision that are worth discussing?
  
• Is 25MHz of spectrum enough? Is it more than necessary?
  

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