By Robert J. Terry
Baltimore Business Journal

Eight months after a high-profile launch, efforts to build on Baltimore's first free wireless Internet "hot spot" have cooled.

City officials say the deliberate pace is by design. But critics of the city-led initiative -- entrepreneurs who have launched nascent startups offering Internet access through networks built with wireless fidelity technology, or "Wi-Fi" -- say the languishing project is hampering what little business development momentum they have.

A pilot project called "Baltimore Unwired" was launched last September by the city to study the usefulness of a free wireless network in public places such as the Inner Harbor. The thinking was that the free "hot spot," which transmits data over short distances using radio waves, could be used to market Baltimore as a tech-savvy location.

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