There seems to be a good trend in terms of WIFI going on in, of all places, Michigan. With Washtanaw, there is now 3 counties that are all connected that are in the process of doing a WIFI project. As mentioned, Oakland (to the north of Washtanaw) is doing WIFI. They have already launched their pilot locations. Then Genesee county, to the north of Oakland, is doing WIFI too. They just got their bids back and are in the process of selecting a vendor. All 3 of these counties are doing WIFI without any taxpayer money. We'll see how well it works... 85k is for the birds. I think the other 2 counties are working on a faster "free" speed than that. The good news is that there are some big name companies (ATT, IBM) that are interested in building some of these networks. If anyone can buck Comcast... it'll be them.