How many times have you been out and about with your laptop and thought "Oh hey I need to look something up" or "Joe from work sent me an important email that I need to read" but there aren't any open wifi networks or you can't affor to pay for the wifi in places like Starbucks? Well I think this city could use a city-wide wifi network for it's citizens. I wouldn't expect to be enjoying a high bandwidth connection, but it should be enough for people to chek email, check social networking sites such as twitter, facebook, or myspace. We live in the 21st century, why doesn't our city?
I'm all for city wide wi-fi..
I'm all for city wide wi-fi.. heck I'd even pay a little more in taxes, then everyone can check out yours and mine website: GoWayneCounty
This might be
This might be relevant:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/11/too-important-to-lose-te...
Minnesota provided its own internet infrastructure and was sued by its local telco -- but the supremes supported Minnesota in this case, which would provide us a good precedent, if we decided to do the same.