Human_Error
10-21-2004, 02:37 AM
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/08/Mayor_street.jpgPhiladelphia mayor John F. Street is either completely out of his mind or a visionary who is completely out of his mind.
The self-professed quasi-geek, who always carries a state-of-the-art PDA, recently outlined a plan to outfit the City of Brotherly Love with free or low-cost wireless Internet via a single massive network covering the city's entire 135 square miles. Chief Information Officer Dianah Neff estimates that it will cost the city $10 million in startup capital and about $1.5 million in annual maintenance expenditures for each year thereafter.
The explosive proliferation of cell phones around the turn of the millennium revealed the massive untapped market for consumer-grade wireless technology in Virginia as well. Already, several downtown business use wireless networks for their own administrative needs, and a few of them will even give or rent this "Wi-Fi," as it's called, to their patrons. Wi-Fi is great for businesses, but many of the nomadic users are simply out to enjoy themselves. "I have no business," says 23-year-old Andrew Sarner from behind his gleaming white Mac laptop. "It's all fun... and free."
http://www.framingham.edu/wireless/IMAGES/laptop_outside.jpg
MORE here http://readthehook.com/stories/2004/10/08/coverStoryAirborneWardrive.html
The self-professed quasi-geek, who always carries a state-of-the-art PDA, recently outlined a plan to outfit the City of Brotherly Love with free or low-cost wireless Internet via a single massive network covering the city's entire 135 square miles. Chief Information Officer Dianah Neff estimates that it will cost the city $10 million in startup capital and about $1.5 million in annual maintenance expenditures for each year thereafter.
The explosive proliferation of cell phones around the turn of the millennium revealed the massive untapped market for consumer-grade wireless technology in Virginia as well. Already, several downtown business use wireless networks for their own administrative needs, and a few of them will even give or rent this "Wi-Fi," as it's called, to their patrons. Wi-Fi is great for businesses, but many of the nomadic users are simply out to enjoy themselves. "I have no business," says 23-year-old Andrew Sarner from behind his gleaming white Mac laptop. "It's all fun... and free."
http://www.framingham.edu/wireless/IMAGES/laptop_outside.jpg
MORE here http://readthehook.com/stories/2004/10/08/coverStoryAirborneWardrive.html