{"id":499,"date":"2004-09-01T10:15:12","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T10:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2004-09-01T10:15:12","modified_gmt":"2004-09-01T10:15:12","slug":"wireless_internet_for_all_philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"Wireless Internet for all? Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.netscape.cnn.com\/news\/story.jsp?flok=FF-APO-1333&#038;idq=\/ff\/story\/0001%2F20040901%2F0654343788.htm&#038;sc=1333\">David Caruso<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>For about $10 million, city officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world&#8217;s largest wireless Internet hot spot.<br \/>\nThe ambitious plan, now in the works, would involve placing hundreds, or maybe thousands of small transmitters around the city &#8211; probably atop lampposts. Each would be capable of communicating with the wireless networking cards that now come standard with many computers.<br \/>\nOnce complete, the network would deliver broadband Internet almost anywhere radio waves can travel &#8211; including poor neighborhoods where high-speed Internet access is now rare.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/wsj\/home\/local\/index.php?ntid=9394&#038;ntpid=3\">Judy Newman says<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.madison.wi.us\/mayor\/mayor.html\">Mayor Dave<\/a> is in favor of it (count me as a skeptic on this one.  The Madison airport, as of August, 2004 still does not have wireless internet, otherwise known as wi-fi.  Most other airports have had it for years).   True two way high speed internet access should be a public good, just like our roads and utilities.  This is the economic issue for the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Caruso: For about $10 million, city officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world&#8217;s largest wireless Internet hot spot. The ambitious plan, now in the works, would involve placing hundreds, or maybe thousands of small transmitters around the city &#8211; probably atop lampposts. Each would be capable of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}