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Hermosa Beach, California last week voted to deliver Wi-Fi to every one of the city's 18,000+ residents - for free. The installation will cost the city between $75,000 and $85,000, with annual operating costs totalling around $18,000 per year. According to the Beach Reporter, the city will be one of the first in the country to offer wireless broadband for free to all of its residents. The 50,000 strong California city of Cerritos is completing construction of their own Wi-Fi network. For now the plan in Hermosa Beach is to offer the service for free; users will see advertisements upon initial login to a hotspot user registration page. The first phase of the project will include limited deployments to test demand and perfect monitoring capabilities. While the effort is certainly noble, they'll eventually need to charge for service - like every other utility.

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Wi-Fi up high
Boeing's Scott Carson wants to bring high-speed Internet to flyers. But he needs to convince the big carriers first.

http://news.com.com/2001-7351_3-0.html? ... s#bigissue

The city next to my hometown Glen Cove, NY is installing city-wide WiFi as well....

3nder and I were having a discussion about the spread of public wifi the other day, and it's really something significant if you think about it. Internet access is still something only a percentage of americans have. I dont know what the current statistics are, but Im sure somewhere over half of all households don't have access. I have a feeling that within the next 5 years, public internet access will become as available, and expected like any other utility (phone service, electricity, etc...). I don't think it's necessarily an amazing thing technically, as much as it is considering the internet as a flow of information. The socialization of internet access would put that flow of information into every corner of america. In the 2000 elections, the internet was only a footnote as an embarassing Gore quote, but we've seen politics transformed in the 2004 race by the Dean campaign's use of the internet at what it does so well (organize like-minded people). If that much has changed in less than 4 years with less than half the population connected.... I have a feeling things will change even more once everyone has access....