Municipal Wi-Fi Update: People Do Pay For It
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An interesting data point in the ongoing debate over municipal wi-fi:
T-Mobile USA disclosed user statistics from its Wi-Fi business for the first time Monday, reporting that 450,000 customers have paid to access the wireless Internet service in the past three months.Doesn't sound like a public good to me. And if it's not a public good, then the government has no business providing it, especially out of bizarre claims of "helping the poor" (who apparently can afford laptops but not wi-fi subscriptions).
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The Wi-Fi service is a key business for T-Mobile, which unlike many of its mobile phone rivals is not upgrading its cellular network to deliver high-speed Internet access in addition to phone service.
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13 June 2005
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