Municipal WiFi Costs Outweigh Benefits

TheSync writes "JupiterResearch claims that muni WiFi costs outweigh benefits. It can cost up to $150,000 per square mile over five years, which may not even provide each user a benefit of $25 a month. They suggest that such projects only be taken on as public-private partnerships."

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Re:Another Coin Operated "research lab"?

[GileadGreene]

Common sense will tell you that muni wifi is a good thing for you and me and a bad thing for the telcos.

Common sense tells me that muni WiFi will result in my taxes going up, the government getting more control over my network access, a large government investment in soon-to-be obsolete technology that they will probably not be quick to replace, a lack of incentives for other WiFi operations to even try setting up in my area, and lots of money wasted on trivial issues as the government implements various (possibly conflicting) provisions on their WiFi network to satisfy special interest groups. Why exactly is this a "good thing"?