On the Dot: Should cities offer free Wi-Fi? - Internet

Wi-FI as a public utility could benefit a municipality. If it did not provide monetary profits, the corollary benefits to the community that was wired in terms of convenience to businesses, educational uses, and such would be worth the public expenditure. Note how in this story communities that could get no attention from SBC and big corps got together to set up a public wireless network. Suddenly the big corporations has money to run an advertising campaign against the government initiative, but at the end, the citizens had no wireless. Utilities in the "commons" are often great benefits to citizens who don't have to pay several different corporations for service, and pay a small amount in taxes for service. It is the public-- the citizens -- who lose when government initiatives that would make the community a better place are sacrificed for the good of the corporation which has no ties to bind it to a community. On the Dot: Should cities offer free Wi-Fi? - Internet