There’s been much in the way of argument back and forth over the projects that the government of San Francisco California put up for a municipal WiFi project. Frankly, with government driving the truck, I didn’t figure it would get anywhere. Ultimately, I was proven correct.
But here comes private enterprise to do what government can’t. Engadget is reporting:
For those paying attention, you’d know that betting the farm on San Francisco’s muni WiFi project ever coming together wouldn’t exactly be the best move, but it appears that Sonic.Net is stepping in to provide an alternative. The California-based ISP has reportedly conjured up an initiative to bring an ad-supported MuniFi model to San Franciscans, and would utilize hardware from Meraki.
This would seem to lend credence to the argument of Newt Gingrich and others about “the world that works” and “the world that doesn’t work”.
The bottom line here, is that there are some things that government should be doing. Handling data has a utility, isn’t one of them. Ironic, isn’t it? San Francisco, arguably the biggest hotbed of liberalism in the country today, should be the place where this message gets delivered the strongest.
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