{"id":2298,"date":"2006-04-21T21:47:51","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T21:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2006-04-21T21:47:51","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T21:47:51","slug":"smf_switches_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2298","title":{"rendered":"SMF Switches to Free WiFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wifinetnews.com\/archives\/006480.html\">Glenn Fleishman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/content\/travel\/bee\/story\/14243651p-15062396c.html\">The airport has an interesting history with Wi-Fi that I&rsquo;ve been writing occasionally about since 200<\/a>3: It&rsquo;s a fairly small airport, not atypical for state and province capitals that tend to be located in politically expedient places that aren&rsquo;t often also bustling metropolises compared to the big towns that developed in their political unit. (Olympia? Albany? Austin?)<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento originally contracted with Airport Network Solutions, which said back in 2003 that it would cost $110,000 to add service. I noted in Aug. 2003 that without aggregation and resale they&rsquo;d never recoup even the modest cost based on their assumptions of users and what they were charging for a day pass ($6.95). The airport apparently bore the cost of installation repaid out of fees rather than requiring its contractor to eat Capx, which is quite odd. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is Madison&#8217;s fate as well.  The economics will make it free over time &#8211; assuming we have wifi at the airport &#8211; some day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Fleishman: The airport has an interesting history with Wi-Fi that I&rsquo;ve been writing occasionally about since 2003: It&rsquo;s a fairly small airport, not atypical for state and province capitals that tend to be located in politically expedient places that aren&rsquo;t often also bustling metropolises compared to the big towns that developed in their political [&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\/2298"}],"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=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}