Municipal WiFi stalling in America?
September 3rd, 2007San Francisco?s city-wide WiFi has stalled out, and Chicago?s is meeting a similar fate. The lead for Houston?s project is paying the city $5 million “to buy a window of time to figure out what to do next.” St. Louis has hit a big snag. Lompoc?s network growth is far lower than it should be. Even Toledo is cooling it. Earthlink, a major player in this field, has been losing customers and spending hugely, and is now cutting jobs and restructuring itself. Is American city-wide WiFi in a crisis?
The issue is important, because the fact is we all need to be part of the digital society. Living in a world of the digital haves and digital have nots could cleave society apart and Local Media Left Behind and A $100 Laptop May Soon Be a Reality and Intel? Digital Communities Initiative
Interestingly Korea invested heavily in a superfast digital highway. Now I know that is broadband and not Wifi, but I think the principal should be considered the same. So again, Capitalism as a principal is stopping society progress. Who pays for the digital society? Yet Korea is rocking and rolling in the digital age because it has the connectivity that it needs to succeed. So, do we want all roads across cyberspace to be private toll roads?
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