Word: wireless
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...home of two major research universities, it’s fitting that Cambridge will be one of the first municipalities to offer free wireless Internet access to its citizens...
Over a year ago, the Cambridge City Council promised its residents the latest in technology convenience: city-wide wireless access. Exciting news for those of us who don’t have iPhones, and can’t give up on our aggressive Facebook stalking addiction. The City of Cambridge planned on installing a free wireless network for students, residents, and tourists alike. That was announced way back in February of 2006. What the hell happened? Very little. Almost no progress has been made in the Newtowne Court Housing Project and a small segment of Harvard Square in front...
Apparently, many elected and appointed officials don't think so. Local and sometimes national governments around the world are not leaving matters to unfettered capitalism. Instead, some are investing public money or working to secure the corporate investment needed to build wireless Internet networks that use fledgling WiMAX technologies and, more often, mature wi-fi platforms. Singapore is "unwiring" using tax revenue. Macedonia is doing the same with the help of U.S. aid. Municipalities as diverse as Prague, Paris, Norwich, Dublin and Chicago are either building or attempting to build wireless networks with public funds...
...enabler for new opportunities, new businesses, and to attract new companies," says Yeng Kit Chan, head of Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority. "Without this new infrastructure Singapore would not have an edge over other locations." Late last year, Singapore said it would invest $20 million in a wireless project that will provide Internet access in public places such as parks, hotels and malls...
...networks are acceptable only in limited situations - for example, "if they address a well-defined market failure." The Commission has on several occasions approved state aid when it determines that market forces are failing to provide a region with broadband. In February it okayed a publicly-funded fiber-and-wireless broadband scheme in North Yorkshire in the U.K. because the area was underserved by private industry...