Submission + - A rethink of how public wifi is implemented. (sputteringdigital.com)
WareW01f writes: From the article:
"With a number of municipal WiFi projects failing across the US, its time to start looking at what they are doing wrong. One of the critical things is a lack of open access to internet service providers. Cities, in many cases, have chosen to compete with other, existing local services... a game that the public sector can never win."
Technology aside (i.e. WiFi vs WiMax), are all the recent failures do to the fact that municipal wifi is just a bad idea, or is it really more an issue of looking at the problem from a different angle.?
"With a number of municipal WiFi projects failing across the US, its time to start looking at what they are doing wrong. One of the critical things is a lack of open access to internet service providers. Cities, in many cases, have chosen to compete with other, existing local services... a game that the public sector can never win."
Technology aside (i.e. WiFi vs WiMax), are all the recent failures do to the fact that municipal wifi is just a bad idea, or is it really more an issue of looking at the problem from a different angle.?
