They said it could n’t be done … and they were totally freaking right . EarthLink is perpetrate the jade on its San Francisco Wi - Fi build - out , says the AP , while developers in Chicago and Houston are having similar crises of organized religion . Bizarrely , MuniWireless.com report that presently 455 cities and county are concerned in work up Wi - Fi projects , up from 122 a dyad of eld ago .
My guess is that many of these 455 cities are going to catch on to the fact that there ’s no business model and , in the wake of impending citywide WiMax , no genuine motivation , and will similarly ditch the plans . This quote from EarthLink top dog Rolla Huff about order it all :
“ We will not devote any unexampled capital to the old municipal Wi - Fi model that has us taking all the peril . In my judgement , that fashion model is simply unworkable . ”
What ’s funny to me is that these projects are collapsing before the inevitable flood of angry client - living calls .
San Francisco
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