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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.)
Although this may be a step in the right direction, Dayton is Nowhereville, USA. We need a big city to jump on board, then others will begin to do the same. At this time, Dayton is not going to make a big impact. Think of it: pretend you run a big city. Free WiFi keeps rearing it's head and you beign to wonder if it's a good thing. Your next step isn't going to think of Dayton, OH...boy, Dayton is doing free WiFi, we should.
What do you expect to happen when you let liberals run the cities.
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It wouldn't sail with the You're-a-peein's, I don't know whay we try to float that boat on these shores.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
This story is blatant bullshit. Athens, Ga has had free Wi-Fi that covers the entire downtown area as well as nearly the entire campus of the University of Georgia (adjacent to downtown) for NEARLY THREE YEARS.
The Cloud at Athens
Plus, Athens has a great nightlife... local and touring bands play almost every night of the week ... tons of bars ... and lots of hot chicks everywhere. You should see the coffee shops around here: full of cute nerdy girls on Powerbooks who dig nerdy guys!
Somehow, I really don't think Dayton, Ohio compares at all.