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Free WiFi Trend Continues
Palal writes "San Francisco is about to embark on a Free (or low cost) WiFi campaign with the mayor holding the reins, of course, in hopes of offering more low-income residents easier access to the Internet. Since San Francisco, unlike Philadelphia (previously covered on Slashdot for a similar project), is only 49 square miles, will this work here and can this be accomplished in a year as promised or is this just another political plot to get the Mayor re-elected?"
Isn't everything a mayor does a plot to get re-elected? I'll believe in altruism when he's paying for it out of his own pocket, rather than out of the taxpayer's.
OTOH, this would sure reduce the incentive for War Driving. And I would like to know what this will do to existing networks.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
still not as bad as the mandatory recylcing program our county has. I have to pay for a service I have no intention of using 32.00 a year.