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Can Wi-Fi make it in Manhattan?
By Larry Hendrick | December 19, 2005
This discussion seems inevitable as politicians continue to push for the spread of technology they know nothing about. I have discussed many of the pitfalls in other posts, so I will dispense with that here and direct you to those stories.
Here is:
Wading in on WiFi
I am not alone
sites blocked by government
Can Wi-Fi make it in Manhattan? | CNET News.com
New York City lawmakers are taking a long, hard look at using 802.11-based Wi-Fi or some other technology to get the city’s roughly 8 million citizens access to broadband.
New York’s interest in municipal broadband comes just as the citywide Wi-Fi buzz hits a fever pitch. Other cities, such as Philadelphia, New Orleans and San Francisco, have already started down the Wi-Fi path, but if New York builds out its own Wi-Fi network, it will be the biggest deployment of municipal Wi-Fi in the country, and perhaps the world.
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