If They Had Their Way, Free Municipal Wifi Would Never See the Light of Day
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You may have heard about the cities which are coming online and offering free wifi on a city-wide (municipal) basis. What you probably haven’t heard about is the fights which often go on behind the scenes to keep you, the good citizens of these cities, from having access to municipal wifi.
Who on earth would not want you to be able to have free wifi access anywhere in your city?
Well, the telephone companies and ISPs, that’s who. In fact, in a recent New York Times article, a Comcast EVP was quoted as saying “Is it fair that the industry pay tax dollars to the city that are then used to launch a network that would compete with our own?”
Boo hoo hoo. Cry Aunty a river.
By way of example, earlier this year Indiana was dealing with not one, but three bills all aimed at muni wifi, one of which would have…
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