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Municipal WiFi Costs Outweigh Benefits

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the subtle-jabs dept.

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."

11 of 322 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Minor Details by Ruvim · · Score: 2, Funny

    And then, a town/city can start issuing tickets for people using this open network without permission thus getting their budget fixed, refering to this story as a legal precendent.

  2. WiFi Story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did anyone else see anything funny with a WiFi story being posted at 8:02.11 in the morning?

    Nathan

  3. An entreaty to moderate upwards by loadquo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yea and indeed verily.

    This missive does indeed speak the truth. I encourage those of you blessed with the points of moderation to bestow them unstintingly and with the fullness of your heart to the above post, so that the multitudes may come to know of this cautionary tale of Britannic woe.

  4. Re:Minor Details by telecsan · · Score: 3, Funny

    I figured that paucity of unbiased analysis had to be an anagram for something, and I got as far as stupid false bias, but I have some leftover letters...

  5. Re:Hark to my voice of warning! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    PPP is the way military contracting works in the US and there is no problem in that system. :)

  6. Re:Minor Details by Stauf · · Score: 2, Funny

    I figured that paucity of unbiased analysis had to be an anagram for something...

    Inauspicious Beady Satan Fly!

    Now all you have to do is figure out what it means.

  7. Sneaky Bastards by SolarCanine · · Score: 3, Funny

    See? These guys are willing to go so far to skew the results of a study, they actually threw in extra letters so your anagram wouldn't come out right! The NERVE!

  8. Re:Minor Details by telecsan · · Score: 2, Funny

    You do realise there are 16 quarter square miles in a square mile and not 4? [ducks]

    I'd think you could fit a lot more quarters in a square mile. I mean, I can fit more than 16 quarters (US currency) on my mousepad.

    Oh, I see, you're talking that special relativity stuff where it depends on your frame of reference whether you're stacking the quarters or balancing them on edge, or ....[NO CARRIER]

  9. Re:Minor Details by Rei · · Score: 2, Funny

    1) "Up By A Bay" Insidious Analyst
    2) Insidious "Fantasy Palace" Buy
    3) Pay Us An Inability-Focussed "A"
    4) Inability As "Pa", You Fecund Ass
    5) I Bandy Up Facetious Analysis (my favorite!)
    6) Facetious Analysis Paid By UN
    7) Suspicious Denial By A Fay Ant
    8) In A Suspicious Fealty-Day Nab
    9) Obfuscate Analysis: I Pay In Du...
    10) A Sinous Playa FBI Syndicate (???)

    --
    "99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
  10. Re:Minor Details by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I am Chinese. My country economy grow strong and fast as bamboo.

    American economy stable like drunken panda.

    Chinese use central planning, we no worship market as god.

    Does not the debt need the bond?

    Stupid Americans - we buy your Unocal oil company HAHA we outbid Chevron HAHAHA

    - Wang Ho
    Project for a New Chinese Century

  11. Re:Wife cost outweigh benefits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wife cost outweigh benefits

    As slashdotters, we already knew that.