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...City of Brotherly Love wants to bring its citizens closer together--virtually--and plans to cover its 135 sq. mi. with free wireless Internet access by June 2006. Philadelphia will not be the first. Spokane, Wash., and Grand Haven, Mich., have already gone wi-fi. But Philly is the first major city to try joining their ranks. Dianah Neff, Philly's chief information officer and the instigator of the project, says the main objective is to bridge the digital divide in her city. "For Philadelphia to come into the 21st century," she says, "we must have affordable high-speed Internet...
Will people actually pay for wi-fi? Can Vivato pull money out of thin air? Maybe not with prepaid cards, but, as Stalter says, the technology is way ahead of the applications, and over time alternative revenue sources are going to come crawling out of the woodwork. I thought of one myself, when I got back from Spokane. Parking in my neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., is so tight, it took 45 minutes of circling the block before I found a space. I spent that time doing a thought experiment: What if Vivato lit up my neighborhood with wi-fi? Then...
...everybody converge on the same prime spot as soon as it frees up? Not if you fork over extra to get notified, say, 30 seconds earlier. "You pay a premium for that!" says Kevin Ryan, Vivato's V.P. of marketing and business development, his eyes gleaming with invisible wi-fi light. "You're the platinum customer...
There you have it. The future of free urban wi-fi looks bright. It just might cost a little more than we thought...
...WI-FI GETS ROLLING Web surfing on planes, trains and automobiles...