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Free WiFi. Or Not.
March 04, 2005 ( politics )
Ah, the promise of WiFi. Everyone connected, low-cost, instantaneous network rollouts. It's a nightmare that evidentially keeps the telecom industry up at night, to the extent of convincing a Tx republican to sponsor a bill prohibiting gov't support of such initiatives.
It's not the end of the world that many have been bemoaning, as far as I can tell it's not banning a coffeeshop from providing free connections, but it's certainly limiting non-profit and community organizations from getting the all-important city funding for their projects. Cuz, y'know, East Austin is going to bankrupt Ma Bell.
Posted by griffjon at March 4, 2005 12:03 PM
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