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Dayton, Ohio: Free City-Wide WiFi
_Bunny writes "The City of Dayton, Ohio announced a plan to make all of downtown a WiFi hotspot - and as of last week, the network is live. This makes Dayton the first Ohio city to offer free WiFi access. Approximately one square mile of downtown is now live, including Fifth Third Field, the Oregon District, Webster Station and RiverScape. The WiFi project is a public/private partnership not funded by taxpayers, and comes at no charge to the end user." (According to the linked story at WHIO-TV, the city is actually paying about $5,000 per year, with advertisers picking up the rest of the tab.)
I don't see why it's cool. I see it as the city assuming greater expense with minimal or no added value. I don't see the value, if someone could tell me what the great value for such a thing is.
In these tight economic times, why would a city consider it a wise move to spend tax payer monies on project like this just escapes me. How is this system going to pay for itself? What sort of economic advantages to the city and the population are going to be generated by this? Isn't this just like the all the tech stock over evaluations that lead to the great tech bomb?
By "city wide", I think they mean:
The whole city is footing the bill.
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"Waaa!!! I don't have a laptop and I live downtown!!! I disagree with the use of tax dollars!!!"
Well, I didn't agree with the war in Iraq and I haven't seen benefits. Guess we should just disband the Army.
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