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Municipal Wi-Fi Networks In Trouble

Posted by kdawson on from the seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time dept.

imamac writes "According to an AP story, municipal Wi-Fi is going nowhere fast. A think tank research director quipped, 'They are the monorails of this decade: the wrong technology, totally overpromised and completely undelivered.' Subscriptions to the services are much lower than expected and lawmakers are concerned that millions of dollars will have gone to waste that could have been better spent on roads or crime-fighting. Satisfaction with the quality of service has also been low, which give some insight into the low adoption rate. Is municipal Wi-Fi just a bad idea, has it been poorly implemented, or is the technology just not there to support such an endeavor?"

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  1. Harry Browne said it best... by XxtraLarGe · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Government Doesn't Work!

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    1. Re:Harry Browne said it best... by giorgiofr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Right. I don't own any car manufacturing plant but I am not a slave to VW. I also don't have any CPU production facility, yet prices are falling every day and it's difficult for me to think I am being enslaved by AMD. I could go on forever showing how much your gov't regulated, police-enforced idiotic solutions do not work, never have and never will, but you would shield yourself behind your "I'm a socialist and proud of it". Maybe you'd like to take responsibility for the mass murderings perpetrated under Stalin yesterday and North Korea's gov't today instead?

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  2. the answers: by yagu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is municipal Wi-Fi just a bad idea, has it been poorly implemented, or is the technology just not there to support such an endeavor?"
    • no
    • yes
    • no
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