If San Francisco really gets municipal wireless, I am moving there out of sheer principle....
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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