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What's Eating Citywide WiFi

Title:What's Eating Citywide WiFi (ID: CSD5195)
Author(s):Andrew K. Burger (ECT News Network)
Topics:Municipal Networks, Wireless Technology
Origin:Community Contributions (09/20/2007)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

"Big-city WiFi is dead at the moment, because the cost and requirements were a big mismatch with where the money can come from for the projects. EarthLink offered too much, realized it and pulled back, but no one is stepping up to take their place because no other firms could build San Francisco, Houston, Chicago or other cities and make money either," said Glenn Fleishman, a journalist and veteran WiFi industry watcher.

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