The news reads "Philadelphia City Council Clears Way for Citywide Wi-Fi Network" finally... Philadelphia was the first major urban center to plan a city-wide wifi network. This has been in the works for a while now, the plan was to unwire 135 square miles of the city, using WiFi mesh networking hardware :) From those intial plans of providing free wifi to its poorer residents, the city had faced numerous regulatory issues that had threatened to scuttle these plans.
Anyways, to cut the long story short (if you want the long story read the generous dollops of links in this post), at least the city council in Philly has approved these plans, Earthlink was chosen earlier in the year to build and run the network. Its all supposed to be up and ruerizonnning by fall 2007.
Just in time for when my Verizon contract runs out :) :)
ps. I have really begun to like Philly, more about that in another post
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