Getting what you pay for in muni Wi-Fi
Getting what you pay for in muni Wi-Fi
Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School and co-author of Who Controls the Internet? has written an analysis for Slate that should be required reading in communities everywhere. The reason behind recent failures in municipal Wi-Fi, he writes, “is that cities haven’t thought of the Internet as a form of public infrastructure that?”like subway lines, sewers, or roads?”must be paid for. Instead, cities have labored under the illu