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New Orleans to Deploy Free Wi-Fi City Wide

Posted by Zonk on from the webbing-things-back-into-place dept.

Lawrence_Bird writes "The Washington Post is reporting that New Orleans will deploy a city wide wi-fi network with free public access. Much of the equipment has been donated, but New Orleans will own and operate the network. Interestingly, they are only able to do this while a state of emergency remains in place as technically their planned 512Kbps service violates state law prohibiting municipalities from offering access at speeds in excess of 144Kbps, a restriction the city plans on fighting even though they will eventually outsource the whole operation."

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  1. Re:The disaster isn't over... by ndtechnologies · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    At the risk of being modded offtopic... Firefox 1.5 is available at the Mozilla FTP site. ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rele ases/1.5

    --
    I have nothing clever to put here...
  2. Re:The disaster isn't over... by Johnny+O · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thanks for the tip - downloading ;-)

  3. Re:Why Does State Of Emergency Last So Long? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Most players bankrupted in 1 day, can you survive Virtual Inc? [iclod.com]
    You are the biggest loser on this site, and that is saying something.
    Iclod is LAME! Is your life really so awful that you need to create on in your computer?

  4. Not Beta by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But they will declare that they suspect that WMD may be found in Venuzula, and that these are needed to stop them. With that, they will be able to get a White house override. I mean, think of the children. :)

  5. Re:Why Does State Of Emergency Last So Long? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First case? According to GWB, our entire country is in a permanent SOE. I know the media has stopped trying to make it the focus of our every second on this earth, but it's still there:

    http://www.ready.gov/

    did you already forget about our "threat level"...?