Philadelphia to become City of Brotherly Wi-Fi
Oct 05 5:00 PM US/Eastern
Philadelphia is set to become America's largest municipal wireless Internet hot-spot, after city officials inked a deal for a vast broadband umbrella with Internet service provider Earthlink.
The 135 square mile (350 square kilometer) network is set to be up and running late next year, and will offer wireless Internet service to low income customers for as little as 10 dollars. Regular rates will be around 20 dollars.
The scheme will give "many Internet users the ability to stay connected, no matter where they are in the city," said Garry Betty, chairman and chief executive officer of Atlanta-based Earthlink.
Visitors to Philadelphia, in the northeastern United States, will be able to buy daily and weekly access to the network, and some parks and public spaces will have a free hook-up.
Philadelphia's announcement came after search engine giant Google said Monday it had offered to blanket the western city of San Francisco with a wireless network that would allow residents to log on to the Internet free of charge
4 comments:
I think that is so cool. How progressive of the city of Philadelphia!
Yeah! Now they can boo Santa on the internet.
i just wanna know when im gonna have one of those cool, clear touch screen computer type things that seemingly consists of no more than a piece of glass, like the ones in minority report.
for now, im just mad cuz the starbucks by school starting charging for wireless access because the people that live upstairs were stealing it.
-m
Mike--Do you have a Panera Bread near you? All their restaurant locations have free Wi-Fi and they have good coffee too. You shouldn't patronize Starbucks anyway, they're evil.
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