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Philadelphia's Wi-Fi Back Online, Privately

Posted by kdawson on from the asymptotically-approaching-the-correct-model dept.

muellerr1 writes "A group of local Philadelphia investors is picking up where Earthlink left off last week. Earthlink abandoned their effort to provide municipal Wi-Fi access because they couldn't lure enough paying customers. The project won't use any additional taxpayer dollars, and the new investors are thinking of using advertisements and fees for business use to support free access for ordinary citizens." The private group won't estimate when the network might be completed (it's at 80%), saying it will take months to assess where the project is and what it needs.

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  1. JavaScript links - why? by Bill+Dimm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What possesses people (Reuters) to use JavaScript for the next-page links in articles? It breaks opening the link in a separate tab, it breaks the link for anyone that has JavaScript disabled, and it keeps search engines from following the link. I realize this is off-topic, but is there some benefit to this that I'm not seeing?

  2. Finally.... by Sir_Real · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    City of Brotherly Love indeed. And hey, if you can make it pay...