{"id":1031,"date":"2005-02-10T21:37:29","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T21:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2005-02-10T21:37:29","modified_gmt":"2005-02-10T21:37:29","slug":"philadelphia_wi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia WiFi: Why are the incumbent telco&#8217;s fighting this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Hands+off+our+Wi-Fi+network\/2010-1071_3-5571655.html?part=rss&amp;tag=5571655&amp;subj=news.1071.5\">Dianah Neff<\/a> (Philadelphia&#8217;s CIO):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Why are Wireless Philadelphia and other city wireless programs such a big threat? More precisely, why do the big boys keep trying to kill our Wi-Fi networks?<\/p>\n<p>Tell me who among incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs)&#8211;have deployed ubiquitous, high-speed wireless networks that support roaming\/mobile capabilities. No ILEC. Who provides high-speed, broadband, ubiquitous services at dial-up rates for the underserved populations? No ILEC. Who is working to get equipment and training into the homes of low-income and disadvantaged portions of our community? Again, no ILEC.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dianah Neff (Philadelphia&#8217;s CIO): Why are Wireless Philadelphia and other city wireless programs such a big threat? More precisely, why do the big boys keep trying to kill our Wi-Fi networks? Tell me who among incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs)&#8211;have deployed ubiquitous, high-speed wireless networks that support roaming\/mobile capabilities. No ILEC. Who provides high-speed, broadband, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}