Big telecom has been fighting municipally financed telecom
infrastructure through legal and legislative channels for years. Mostly
the focus has been on preventing local gov from deploying broadband
fiber plant that can be shared by providers. I guarantee they will fight
this with everything available.
- Dustin -
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Can't believe no one else sent this yet.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/09/01/wireless.cities.ap/index.html
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- For about $10 million, city officials believe
they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world's largest wireless
Internet hot spot.
The ambitious plan, now in the works, would involve placing hundreds, or maybe
thousands of small transmitters around the city -- probably atop lampposts. Each would
be capable of communicating with the wireless networking cards that now come standard
with many computers.
Once complete, the network would deliver broadband Internet almost anywhere radio waves can travel -- including poor neighborhoods where high-speed Internet access is now rare.
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