Sunday, April 10, 2005
City Wi-Fi Boon or Boondoggle?
[excerpt from In The Agora]
"My first reaction to this was "Wow, this is really cool!" Imagine being able to go anywhere in a city and be connected to the net. The idea is hardly new--many college campuses are blanketed in a Wi-fi network--but this would be the largest implementation of the concept in the U.S. For information on other large scale Wi-fi projects, visit MuniWireless.com.
The catch, though, is that the proposed system is entirely government-run."
[continued at In The Agora]
"My first reaction to this was "Wow, this is really cool!" Imagine being able to go anywhere in a city and be connected to the net. The idea is hardly new--many college campuses are blanketed in a Wi-fi network--but this would be the largest implementation of the concept in the U.S. For information on other large scale Wi-fi projects, visit MuniWireless.com.
The catch, though, is that the proposed system is entirely government-run."
[continued at In The Agora]