[wplug] This is why Wi-Fi - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Editorial

[Alex]

--- Zach <netrek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thought the list would find this interesting.
> Praying for Big Ben [1].

ditto - i'm not a football fan, as anathema as that
sounds in pgh, but I am a human fan (any CBLF's, for
that matter).
 
> [1]
>
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/steelers/s_457685.html
> 
> Zach
> 
> This is why Wi-Fi
> 

I'm not for municipalities providing free wifi, cuz
that means someone's footing the bill, and probably as
a money-losing proposition.  I am for muni's promoting
installation of a wifi (or, soon, wimax) network as a
for-profit operation with a blend of pricing
structures...this makes for both accessibility and a
healthy capitalistic environment:  the city,
businesses and consumers can all rent bandwidth.   I
like one company (tech investors gravitate toward
pure-plays, in the hopes of higher returns):
mobilepro.  They recently backed out of providing wifi
in Sacramento, cuz the city counter-offered (after
awarding the project), expecting MOBL to provide free
wifi, with no real revenue source - an unfair
expectation to a nascent wifi company:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060609/flf002.html?.v=53

Mobilepro has several other cities in various stages
of build-outs, with companies like Strix Systems &
Cisco providing the "metropolitan mesh" wifi hardware.


..alex.



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