Philadelphia's Wi-Fi Back Online, Privately 50
muellerr1 writes "A group of local Philadelphia investors is picking up where Earthlink left off last week. Earthlink abandoned their effort to provide municipal Wi-Fi access because they couldn't lure enough paying customers. The project won't use any additional taxpayer dollars, and the new investors are thinking of using advertisements and fees for business use to support free access for ordinary citizens." The private group won't estimate when the network might be completed (it's at 80%), saying it will take months to assess where the project is and what it needs.
Re:Other solutions on the horizon (Score:1, Informative)
This probably should have been modded "funny" instead of "troll". There really are people suing to get wi-fi shut down because they claim to be allergic to it.
TFA doesn't say anything about ads (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Other solutions on the horizon (Score:2, Informative)
Re:It failed because it sucked. (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Other solutions on the horizon (Score:2, Informative)
Well, originally I was a Cingular customer, but now have signed a new contract.
My wife and I both have data plans, she has a Blackjack II, I have a HTC Wizard.
I paid 60 a month extra for unlmtd data on Cingular, 50 a month now on AT & T. With this, I get 200 msg a month and otherwise, unlimited data, tethered or not.
My only gripe is now that I have experienced her phone, being 3G, tethered on the laptops, I realize just how slow the EDGE and related technology is.
But, I've never had a problem with Cingular or AT&T, and I've been tethering since the day I got the phone. Matter of fact, I realized the USB port on the last phone was dead because it wouldn't tether, not because it wouldn't charge.. charging worked fine.
Blackjack II, total crap. Windows mobile NEEDS a touch screen.
--Toll_Free
Re:Other solutions on the horizon (Score:2, Informative)
I live here... The last thing we worry about is "bad vibrations", more likely we're afraid of random violence.
Think I'm joking?
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080617_Police_seek_public_help_in_Beau_Zabel_s_death.html
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080617_Man__18__shot_after_high_school_graduation_at_Liacouras_Center.html
These were only in the last few days.
We're not Santa Fe...