{"id":1952,"date":"2007-09-20T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2007-09-20T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T16:02:00","slug":"municipalities-arent-very-good-internet-service-providers-spotty-garbage-collection-could-have-been-a-clue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1952\/municipalities-arent-very-good-internet-service-providers-spotty-garbage-collection-could-have-been-a-clue\/","title":{"rendered":"Municipalities aren’t very good internet service providers; spotty garbage collection could have been a clue"},"content":{"rendered":"

From USA Today:<\/a><\/p>\n

Plans to blanket cities across the nation with low-cost or free wireless Internet access are being delayed or abandoned because they are proving to be too costly and complicated.<\/p>\n

Houston, San Francisco, Chicago and other cities are putting proposed Wi-Fi networks on hold.<\/p>\n

“Wi-Fi woes everywhere you turn,” says Russell Hancock of Silicon Valley Network, a troubled Wi-Fi project for 40 towns in California’s high-tech corridor.<\/p>\n

Wi-Fi allows laptop users to work anywhere, making some jobs portable. It also is essential to mobile devices, including iPhones, enabling such emerging technology to perform complex online tasks fast.<\/p>\n

Chicago couldn’t reach agreement with service providers after offering free use of street lamps for radio transmitters in exchange for a network built, owned and operated by providers at no cost to the city.<\/p>\n

“All these big city projects were doomed to failure because they were too complicated,” says Glenn Fleishman of Wi-Fi Networking News.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cities are bad at doing simple jobs like picking up the garbage. Why would anyone think they could manage ISPs?<\/p>\n

I love<\/i> this observation: “St. Louis is trying to figure out how to power Wi-Fi transmitters on 1,700 street lights when they’re not illuminated without spending millions of dollars.” I know! Solar power! Wishful thinking plus wishful thinking equals fait accompli<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Take heart, though. Wishful thinking is how we can know for sure that monopoly technology rammed down our throats by thumb-sucking dilberts<\/a> will be even better<\/i> than what we might have chosen for ourselves…
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Technorati Tags: real estate<\/a>, real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n

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