Municipal Wi-Fi: Not A Matter of "If", but "When"
The Wi-Fi fever that I caught a few weeks ago is still raging, with no signs of abating!
I've been reading a lot of exciting news about municipal Wi-Fi this week. People want it, and they want it bad, and local governments want to provide it. But municipal Wi-Fi has some powerful enemies, i.e. the telecommunications industry and the cable TV industry: these industries stand to lose some serious profits if local governments start offering cheap and free wireless access to the Internet. But cheap and free Internet access is good, and it's right; it'll help to close the digital divide, and should also cause the price for wired broadband service to come down. My guess is that municipal Wi-Fi is a snowball that's just starting to tumble down the hill; it will quickly grow into a massive and unstoppable force that not even those highly paid lobbyists on Capital Hill can do anything about. Viva municipal Wi-Fi!
Here a list of some related names I registered today:
MunicipalWi-Fi.com
MetropolitanWi-Fi.com
MunicipalWi-Fi.us
MunicipalWi-Fi.info
MunicipalWi-Fi.org
MetropolitanWi-Fi.org
MuniWi-Fi.us
MuniWi-Fi.org
CityWi-Fi.com
USWi-Fi.com
USAWi-Fi.com
Wi-FiUSA.com
Wi-FiUK.com
Wi-FiEU.com
LAWi-Fi.com
NYWi-Fi.com
NYCWi-Fi.com
PhillyWi-Fi.com
SDWi-Fi.com
Wi-FiSD.com
USBWi-Fi.com
Wi-FiUSB.com
Wi-FiSafety.com
Wi-FiSafety.info
Wi-FiSafety.org
Wi-FiCommunity.com
VOWi-Fi.info
In a few months, I'll report on how these names have been performing traffic-wise. Stay tuned!
I've been reading a lot of exciting news about municipal Wi-Fi this week. People want it, and they want it bad, and local governments want to provide it. But municipal Wi-Fi has some powerful enemies, i.e. the telecommunications industry and the cable TV industry: these industries stand to lose some serious profits if local governments start offering cheap and free wireless access to the Internet. But cheap and free Internet access is good, and it's right; it'll help to close the digital divide, and should also cause the price for wired broadband service to come down. My guess is that municipal Wi-Fi is a snowball that's just starting to tumble down the hill; it will quickly grow into a massive and unstoppable force that not even those highly paid lobbyists on Capital Hill can do anything about. Viva municipal Wi-Fi!
Here a list of some related names I registered today:
MunicipalWi-Fi.com
MetropolitanWi-Fi.com
MunicipalWi-Fi.us
MunicipalWi-Fi.info
MunicipalWi-Fi.org
MetropolitanWi-Fi.org
MuniWi-Fi.us
MuniWi-Fi.org
CityWi-Fi.com
USWi-Fi.com
USAWi-Fi.com
Wi-FiUSA.com
Wi-FiUK.com
Wi-FiEU.com
LAWi-Fi.com
NYWi-Fi.com
NYCWi-Fi.com
PhillyWi-Fi.com
SDWi-Fi.com
Wi-FiSD.com
USBWi-Fi.com
Wi-FiUSB.com
Wi-FiSafety.com
Wi-FiSafety.info
Wi-FiSafety.org
Wi-FiCommunity.com
VOWi-Fi.info
In a few months, I'll report on how these names have been performing traffic-wise. Stay tuned!
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4 Comments:
I think, personally, municipal wi-fi is, or should be, where this country is headed.. it's smart, but more than that, it's inevitable!
Hiya David:
> municipal wi-fi is,
> or should be, where
> this country is headed...
Yup. And some of these Wi-Fi related names are already getting developed. Check out www.wi-fila.com.
My town of Orleans is the first to try this on Cape Cod.
> My town of Orleans
> is the first to try
> this on Cape Cod...
Wow, that sounds cool.
Have you been using the service? Have you been able to get online with it? Did Orleans raise taxes to pay for it? Let us know!
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