Yahoo News reports thatthe city of Philadelphia is considering offering free wireless:
For about $10 million, city officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world's largest wireless Internet hot spot.
The ambitious plan, now in the works, would involve placing hundreds, or maybe thousands of small transmitters around the city — probably atop lampposts. Each would be capable of communicating with the wireless networking cards that now come standard with many computers.
Once complete, the network would deliver broadband Internet almost anywhere radio waves can travel — including poor neighborhoods where high-speed Internet access is now rare.
...via BoingBoing
I wonder if this is using the new WiMax technology?
I think this would be a great boom for cities like Des Moines which want to recruit technology companies and perhaps create the kind of culture which sustains that environment.
Posted by: Floyd on September 4, 2004 07:45 PM