Friday, June 30, 2006

What if They Built an Urban Wireless Network and Hardly Anyone Used It?

I'm sitting in a public library in southern California and enjoying the free public wireless internet connection that the city of Fullerton provides. It's wonderful for a visitor like me, who doesn't have internet access where I am staying.

But if I lived here, I would have broadband at home and at the office, and doubt I would go to the library to get on the internet.

Maybe it would be helpful if I am out somewhere and need to check the internet or email for some reason, but that would be on rare occasions.

"Yet as Taipei has found out, just building a citywide network does not guarantee that people will use it."

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