Mayors and city governments around the U.S. bought into citywide WiFi project plans, which often included unsupportable performance claims and grossly inflated forecasts for the numbers of users they would attract. Those decisions have come back to haunt them and have led to some abrupt reversals of fortune in cities large and small, as was discussed in Part 1 of this series. “What is often overlooked in the glossy, glassy, overly optimistic plans for these is the very low numbers that WiFi networks typically attract.”
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What’s Eating Citywide WiFi, Part 2
Posted by: Andrew K. Burger September 21, 2007 04:00 AMMayors and city governments around the U.S. bought into citywide WiFi project plans, which often included unsupportable performance claims and grossly inflated forecasts for the numbers of users they would attract. Those decisions have come back to haunt them and have led to some abrupt reversals of fortune in cities large and small, as was discussed in Part 1 of this series. “What is often overlooked in the glossy, glassy, overly optimistic plans for these is the very low numbers that WiFi networks typically attract.”