If San Francisco really gets municipal wireless, I am moving there out of sheer principle....
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Speaking of airports, why can't there be more airports like Albuquerque's Sunport: free wireless and even nice places to plug in and lay out your laptop:
I did some research on mice, and I thought I'd pass it on.
Brian Russell, the tireless fighter for public wireless in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area, recently wrote two blog posts on the widely read local blog Orange Politics:
Google has signed me up to their "buzz", which seems to be like facebook but with fewer people and no silly games. This link might work, or it might not. Who knows. Is it any use? I don't know.
If I lived in a place with free universal wireless, I'd never get any work done, though. One of the ways I force myself to write is to go to one of the dwindling number of coffee shops in my area that don't offer free wireless.
There is a big push for municipal wireless (actually more - a kind of a town-wide own mini-Internet) in Chapel Hill. If that passes, I'll let you know - this is a cool place to live.
We will see you soon in Chicago then Chris, because Mayor Daley has decided to go Wi-Fi in Chi town too.
Chris,
Come to Akron, Ohio. I believe we're already operational.
Tempe, Arizona is in the process of deploying perimeter-to-perimeter municipal wireless, but I believe it's only free downtown (the portion that's already operational).
You might want to avoid visiting Lakehead University in Ontario...they've banned wi-fi from campus because of "health risks."
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyI…
Greater Rochester (NY) International Airport has free wireless in the main concourse. It's a nice change from all those @#$&* pay-as-you-go airport wireless "services".
Wow, a lot of places where I ought to move....Not only do we not have municipal Wi-Fi in D.C., you can't even *pay* for it in some of the airport terminals at DCA.
There seems to be a growing number of airports offering free wireless--in addition to the Rochester/Monroe County airport that Julie mentioned, I've recently seen free wireless at the Phoenix and Pittsburgh airports, and I think a few others I passed through. There's an online list of airports with free wi-fi here:
http://www.wififreespot.com/airport.html
A list of airports with pay wi-fi:
http://www.fastcompany.com/resources/travel/061404.html