I'm all for the city providing wireless internet service. It also has
the potential of saving the public schools a lot of money, not to
mention significantly upgrading the current access capabilities. I'm
having trouble reading the budgeted numbers on the current Master
Technology Plan on the MPS web site, but if memory serves me right,
network services and related distribution hardware is around $10
million. If the city's internet service could knock of 25% of those
costs we will save more than we will save in the best case scenario by
closing 14 schools in our neighborhoods. And the new internet capacity
might even attract a few of those families who have or are leaving.
Dan McGuire
Ericsson
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