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March 08, 2005
Chicago, future home of citywide wi-fi?
Chicago is considering making wi-fi service available citywide. It's a terrifically bold move.
If it actually happens, it becomes a great reason to evangelize Chicago as a business-friendly city. Citywide wi-fi creates a data-friendly atmosphere attractive to businesses, investors, tourists and
entrepreneurs.
Now the hard part: "Ald. Edward Burke said he will draft legislation
designed to preserve the city's right to permit installation in Chicago
before the General Assembly can consider a bill that would preclude
municipalities from doing so," according to the Chicago Tribune.
The phone companies, of course, are behind the efforts at state levels to prevent cities like Chicago from making wi-fi service available as a utility.
The phone companies exhausted their well of customer goodwill long, long ago.
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