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Free market access and access to city wifi on Treasure Island

Free market access and access to city wifi on Treasure Island

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Started by Anonymous 13 years ago
Living on Treasure Island has been a blessing and a bane. We enjoy terrific views of the San Francisco and East Bay, have an incredible amount of open space and affordable rent. We don't however have many services that other neighborhoods enjoy. We don't have the option to access the cities free wifi nor do we have the option of choosing internet providers other than Comcast or dish network. Cell service would be greatly enhanced if the wifi were Improved. We were promised use of the cities free wifi services years ago and were ecstatic but it never worked properly. We ask that the city implement a system that functions for all of the island residents, business and visitors. The city is beginning to work on free wifi for its parks, so why shouldn't we have reliable service as well? We often host events and markets that serve the cities residents as much as the mainland parks and public areas within the city. With regard to AT&T, They maintain the lines for cable and Internet to the island and yet we don't have the option to choose them, or other companies, as our provider. The only options are Comcast cable or the Dish network. Comcast has the greater monopoly on service, even as they use the lines maintained by AT &T. When residents complain about the slowing of service or advance billing issues, for instance, they are disinterested because they know our options are limited. The Dish network relies on satellite plates applied to our units, that is not a problem until the grade 2 winds blow it in a direction that effects the reception. The conditions on the island require the use of in ground cable systems. We would like the City of San Francisco and AT&T to change the way it delivers these basic services to the island residents and help to make this neighborhood function at the same level as the mainland.

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Anonymous
11 years ago Featured

Treasure Island suffers from infra-structure racism and discrimination. It's very common for corporations to provide inferior services to low income neighborhoods consisting mainly of people of color. Treasure Island is no different than Lurgan, N. Ireland (where the Catholic neighborhoods have poor cell phone reception and slow internet) or the projects near South End, Boston, where the majority population is African American.

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Jeff Kline
11 years ago Featured

Anyway, 7 months later, official 'word' from the Community Meeting on March 18, 2015, "someone looted the WiFi equipment racks in old fire station." Huh? That may account for some of the many months of dysfunction-- ya think?!

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Smadar Lavie
11 years ago

Treasure Island suffers from infra-structure racism and discrimination. It's very common for corporations to provide inferior services to low income neighborhoods consisting mainly of people of color. Treasure Island is no different than Lurgan, N. Ireland (where the Catholic neighborhoods have poor cell phone reception and slow internet) or the projects near South End, Boston, where the majority population is African American.

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Jeff Kline
11 years ago

Anyway, 7 months later, official 'word' from the Community Meeting on March 18, 2015, "someone looted the WiFi equipment racks in old fire station." Huh? That may account for some of the many months of dysfunction-- ya think?!

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Axel Grim
12 years ago

Please!