Perhaps in large cities, like LA and NY, city and municipal management might have real skills and the dollars to invest in Wi-Fi networks.
For little Po-dunk towns like Kansas City, St. Louis, etc... I have found too few dollars and too big of dreams have created patchy, intermittent WI-Fi service.
Also, there is no advertisement of WI-FI even being available. Several hotels offer their own service, but there is no notification of city-based WI-FI.
And honestly, do you believe cities that cannot/will not fix the potholes in the streets are actually going to invest the needed resources to build a reliable WI-FI? They will build an IT disaster that no citizen will know about, tourists will condemn, and it will be a talking-point on their resumes come election time.
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Perhaps in large cities, like LA and NY, city and municipal management might have real skills and the dollars to invest in Wi-Fi networks. For little Po-dunk towns like Kansas City, St. Louis, etc... I have found too few dollars and too big of dreams have created patchy, intermittent WI-Fi service. Also, there is no advertisement of WI-FI even being available. Several hotels offer their own service, but there is no notification of city-based WI-FI. And honestly, do you believe cities that cannot/will not fix the potholes in the streets are actually going to invest the needed resources to build a reliable WI-FI? They will build an IT disaster that no citizen will know about, tourists will condemn, and it will be a talking-point on their resumes come election time.