bkucharski
join:2001-11-09
Homer Glen, IL
| Not a good use of City funds! The City of Chicago is also considering providing wi-fi access.
»Windy City Wi-Fi
Why are these cities offering wi-fi?
Are there not better things that cities could do with their budgets? Adding wi-fi is something that cities could offer once they have solved their bigger issues? | |
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woody7
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join:2000-10-13
Torrance, CA
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·DSL EXTREME
| Re: Not a good use of City funds! maybe they are trying to get new businesses to migrate to their city......I agree with you that there are a lot better things, but businesses are part of their "constituency" also...I hate waste like most, but here in "kalifornia" businesses have all but been driven out...taxed to death, regulated to death, bla bla bla.....without businesses and a strong manufacturing base, there won't be enough money for anything....
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bkucharski
join:2001-11-09
Homer Glen, IL
| Re: Not a good use of City funds! said by woody7  :maybe they are trying to get new businesses to migrate to their city...... I would agree that cities should try to lure business into big cites. They could offer discounted access to the dark fiber running through many cities that go mostly unused. | |
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RadioDoc
58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
·AT&T Midwest
| They are considering it primarily for use by the city, with availability to common folk just a bonus. Police, fire, building inspections, etc., could particularly use real-time records access over something other than a pokey cell phone connection. | |
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bkucharski
join:2001-11-09
Homer Glen, IL
1 edit | Re: Not a good use of City funds! said by RadioDoc :They are considering it primarily for use by the city, with availability to common folk just a bonus. Police, fire, building inspections, etc., could particularly use real-time records access over something other than a pokey cell phone connection. According to the Chicago Tribune the City of Chicago is planning on selling this service.
»www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca···set=true
Great another City provided service that will most likely have another large cost overrun just like Millennium Park.
»www.ncbg.org/public_works/millen···park.htm
If the City wanted wireless for its employee to utilize why don't they utilize the existing infrastucture that Metricom Ricochet has already installed and not being utilized? | |
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join:2000-05-11
·AT&T Midwest
| Re: Not a good use of City funds! They are proposing it for both public and city uses.
The Metricom stuff is 128 kbps. Hardly acceptable for much of anything these days.
Millennium Park is a different animal entirely. You must be one of those disgruntled city dwellers that's always complaining about Daley. | |
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bkucharski
join:2001-11-09
Homer Glen, IL
| Re: Not a good use of City funds! said by RadioDoc :Millennium Park is a different animal entirely. You must be one of those disgruntled city dwellers that's always complaining about Daley.
I actually work in the City and play in the city but live in the SW Burbs.
I like what Daley what Daley has done to the city. They need to concentrate on bring value to the people who utilize the City for what it has to offer.
Example, for the boaters in Chicago, they constantly raise the fees each year, have a 25% tax for those who who do not live in the City proper, while always making a 4-6 million dollar profit.
Sometimes I just do not understand how this attracts and improves life in the City.
We shall see. | |
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calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
| Re: Not a good use of City funds! ...Note also that the City of Chicago maintains a virtual monopoly on lakefront boat berths for its entire waterfront, some 20 plus miles, and that there isn't really strong marina competition for quite a distance beyond the city limits.
Note also that the City has contracted its marina management out to Westrec Marnias, a California marina management firm.
Some cities want to get into broadband because nobody else is doing it for them. Some want to get in because they think it will be a cash cow. The second group is up for a rude awakening.
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VoIP--the death knell of remaining voice monopolies! | |
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bjbrock
join:2002-10-28
Mcalester, OK
| Maybe they are tired of the current broadband providers and being their hostage. Maybe it is what the citizens want. You remember the citzens? I think current providers have forgotten the customer. Since muni's are headed up by elected officials, maybe they are listening to those who voted them in. Unlike state and federal officials who are listening only to the big bucks from the big corporations. I think it is time to elect more rep's. that can still listen to the voters.
Why is it that in every other industry competition is viewed as a good thing, but not the communication industry?
Obviously the current carriers are worried. Worried they me be accountable to their customers again like they were when they were given their gauranteed existence regardless of waste and poor service by the same elected officials they are buying off today.
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