Whatever dude. On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Eater <[email protected]> wrote:
> Our skepticism about this was apt. Community-driven wifi is still relevant > today. > > > > Sent to you by Eater via Google Reader: > > > Whatever Happened to Municipal > Wifi?<http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/reason/HitandRun/%7E3/_Vi7K8BIOA8/130813.html> > via Reason Magazine - Hit & Run <http://www.reason.com/blog> by > [email protected] (Nick Gillespie) on 12/30/08 > > Who killed the great municipal wifi bandwagon of the early '00s, when every > city worth its name was going to supply free (free, I tells ya!) or cheap > wireless service for every resident? George Mason prof and > *Reason*contributor<http://reason.com/contrib/show/366.html>Thomas W. Hazlett > has answers in a provocative piece at > *Ars Technica*. A snippet: > > In 2005, Philadelphia's Chief Information Technology Officer, Dianah Neff, > lectured<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_36/b3949053_mz011.htm>: > "Just as with the roads of old, if broadband bypasses you, you become a > ghost town." The Philly CITO surely did not know that, by 2008, well over > 100 million U.S. subscribers would be linked to the Internet via advanced > data networks, wired and wireless, virtually every one of them supplied by > unregulated private competitors, none via municipal wireless. So, yeah, > Philadelphia. We get it. > > Whole thing > here<http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/muni-wifi-fcc-free-wireless.ars/1> > . > > <http://feedads.googleadservices.com/%7Ea/h0PJ3lwoHbzd3UTuE3xqlqghfD0/a> > <http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Ef/reason/HitandRun?a=aQYbwUtX> > <http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Ef/reason/HitandRun?a=v84cv5ZJ> > <http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Ef/reason/HitandRun?a=CZVv0jxO> > > > > Things you can do from here: > > - Subscribe to Reason Magazine - Hit & > Run<http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2Freason%2FHitandRun?source=email>using > *Google Reader* > - Get started using Google > Reader<http://www.google.com/reader/?source=email>to easily keep up with > *all your favorite sites* > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " > CHAOS706.ORG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<chaos706%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/chaos706?hl=en > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CHAOS706.ORG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chaos706?hl=.
