St. Louis to offer free wireless Internet network to lure business and residents downtown
“The city of St. Louis is setting up what could be the nation’s largest, free, wireless Internet network in hopes of drawing techno-savvy businesses, tourists and residents to the downtown business district. The city has teamed up with a local company, O2Connect, to offer the service in a 42-square-block area.”
Telecoms lobby against public wireless networks: While we love hearing about community wi-fi projects like those in St. Louis and Taipei, telecommunications companies don't. Providing this service is what they make money doing, and they're actively opposing many community wi-fi projects across the country. A chief complaint: a city can…
Taipei gets world's largest Wi-Fi grid: This makes that St. Louis plan look almost quaint by comparison. It's the love of this kind of connectivity that is driving Taipei city planners to build what they say will be the world's biggest "Wi-Fi" network, making cheap, wireless Internet access available almost everywhere…
WiFi - SM: feel the global pain: Like I said, stop surfing all the blogs or someone will tape this to your neck without you knowing about it. "WiFi-SM is an Internet connected wireless device that you can fix on any part of your body. It automatically detects the information from…