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How Municipal Broadband Dies

10:05 am PDT • August 28, 2014

Municipal broadband has become a surprisingly debated topic on the national level, after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler indicated that he believes that the FCC has the legal…

How Municipal Broadband Dies
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A tale of municipal Wi-Fi gone terribly wrong

10:00 am PST • January 24, 2008

Wow. I have an empty house sitting in a neighborhood in St. Louis Park, Minnesota that’s supposed to be blanketed with solar-powered municipal Wi-Fi Internet access. The ugly brown poles…