Piladelphia's wi-fi rollout ispretty small. I looked it up yesterday. They
want to expand it but since they offer free 24x7 tech support I would bet
that the costs will outweight the benefits.
Google has teamed with Earthlink to offer a combo model, free ad supported
or for pay with no ads. As I stated earlier, a few ISP's tried that model
with no success. Even so, it is a business model and if you think about it,
ad supported wi-fi is not "free". In order for it to stay "free" they either
have to turn a profit from the ads or turn a profit from the subscriptions.
MD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Newsham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "LUAU" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: [LUAU] Ubuntu... Legalities
Compared to the rest of you, my knowledge of such things is very limited,
so this may be an embarrassing question. Are there any city or state
governments trying to do this as a service for their citizens? If so,
have any of them been successful? Will the Net eventually evolve into
something like roads and sidewalks?
Not embarrassing. Remember: there are no stupid questions, just stupid
people..
The city of Philadelphia is trying to roll out free wifi. Google wants to
roll out free (ad supported) wifi in SF. There are various community
efforts in many cities to offer free wireless hotspots. There are
probably more efforts that I'm unaware of.
--Peter
Tim Newsham
http://www.lava.net/~newsham/
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