I'll go back and do some corollary work and see what I can come up with.


Brian


-----Original Message-----
From: David E. Smith [mailto:d...@mvn.net] 
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 11:55 AM
To: bwebs...@wirelessmapping.com; WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] What happens when you build a wireless internet system
and give service away? Look at this example.....

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:46, Brian Webster
<bwebs...@wirelessmapping.com> wrote:
> For a period of almost two years the city of
> Philadelphia had free Wi-Fi access on the network EarthLink built. I had
the
> opportunity to look at adoption rates for broadband in that city after
this
> was available. The areas with the lowest adoption rates had free access to
> the internet at speeds of up to 6 meg.

Since you did the mapping, you seem like a good person to ask some of
the questions you bring up in your blog.

Do you have any data showing how the adoption of broadband relates to,
say, income levels? Even if the wi-fi is free, computers aren't.

David Smith
MVN.net



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