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Spokane Gets Unwired
prostoalex writes "Spokane International Airport is getting wireless connectivity just before the city will expand WiFi coverage to 100 blocks in Spokane downtown. It will be the largest urban Wi-Fi zone in the United States, said Bob Conley, a founder of Vivato, the company that made the antennas for both installations. Vivato's press release mentions the service will be useful not only to casual downloaders. The downtown 'Hot Zone' will improve city services by facilitating intelligent policing, quicker fire and rescue response, and will support e-government initiatives and a more productive mobile workforce."
Finally, now I have something to do while I'm waiting to get through a security checkpoint, respond to those viagra e-mails.
Now the cops will just sit around eating doughnuts AND watching porn.....
They switched to decaf!
WiFi...quicker fire and rescue response
1. Buy lots of 2.4 GHz phones and plug them in all over downtown Spokane.
2. Rob a bank.
3. Profit!
Spokane city officials today announced that the city's population has more than quadrupled due to the sudden influx of Internet geeks who are looking for WiFi. Spokane's mayor likes to refer to it as "the Slashdot effect."
OTOH: Wireless freedom innovation good
Right now geek wireless can do no wrong.
"I live in Pullman :-) Spok-vegas is only ~70 miles away."
Better get out that Pringle's can!
"Derp de derp."
I'm really sorry. You go cow-tipping alot? Howzabout them Cougs and their former coach?
Why do I want net access in an airport? To check flight times when I'm picking someone up.
Why don't you just look up from your laptop to the big screens on the wall with all the flight info? Yeah, those are the ones.