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City-wide Wi-Fi adds value to municipalities |
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Written by Jim Geier
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Tuesday, 18 September 2007 |
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There’s been a great deal of debate in the past few weeks about whether municipalities should deploy city-wide Wi-Fi networks. I strongly feel that with the right business model, city-wide Wi-Fi networks make a lot of sense. For example, a Wi-Fi network that covers a 230 square-mile area in Tucson is enabling ER-Link, a video-based Emergency Medical Services (EMS) telemedicine system, and providing a network infrastructure for traffic signal management, which cuts the city’s telecommunication costs by $200,000 a year. See the related article.
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