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Colorado May Allow Cities To Provide Wifi
miguelitof writes "According to the TheDenverChannel.com, Colorado cities may soon be able to provide wireless internet service to their citizens. The state Senate will vote today (April 5th) on Colorado Senate Bill 152, which would allow cities to provide wireless internet access. The only proviso would be that cities would have to get approval from voters to use tax dollars. The cost to provide internet access to a 16 square mile area is about $600k. A city could charge as little as $16 a month and cover expenses."
Yeah, congratulations.
You are now locked in to paying $16 a month for your city's commie Wi-Fi solution, whether you use it or not.
Connection speeds will undoubtably suck, but you will have few alternatives, because there will be no more mom-and-pop ISP's offering higher-speed DSL solutions. Hell, your local phone and companies might not bother with anything other than large corporate accounts now.
You can also say goodbye forever to all the free Wi-Fi hotspots you had all over town. Why would a coffee shop provide free wireless as a draw for customers when the air around them is filled with a "pre-paid" signal?
Best of all, if your city government is anything like every other city government I've ever looked at closely, part of your fee which you think is going to bandwidth will be going to fact-finding "conferences" for city council members in the Bahamas.
Congratulations!
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Wow, you just like to be angry.
I keed, I keed! I joke-a with you!
Instead of answering my question you make a silly remark about metering, whoring for the "Funny" moderation.
Well, yeah. Your point is?
You don't actually come to Slashdot for information do you?
I always figured that most of us are here to blow of steam while our code is compiling (or whatever.)
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