S.F. keeps pushing citywide Wi-Fi

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No company would provide the service.

If a company had offered to provide the service, the municipal government would almost certainly have accepted.
Therefore, I think no company offered to compete with telephone and cable.

SBC, for one, offers in-home WiFi for $2 a month. So that aspect of the business is foreclosed.

If municipalities do offer WiFi over the opposition of the telephone and cable companies, the local governments will remain responsible for costs, and will have to keep resisting pressure to end the service.
It's not unreasonable to expect that in some year with a tight budget they will end the program, or at least restrict it.

And the example of WiFi will inoculate against WiMax.

This is not a refutation of the idea that the cable and telephone companies alone will be providing connections in the future.

Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 08/17/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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