Municipal Wi-Fi

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by tdlrali

Oakland County, MI has pretty decent coverage, but it's slow and unstable.

I don't know about the quality of service, but the coverage areas are still very small - only a few square miles out in a 900-square-mile county. They haven't expanded nearly as fast at originally planned.

[Protronie]

Greensboro, NC has talked of doing it city-wide. Then they scaled it down to downtown... then scaled it down again to City Park... they been talking about it now for three years.
As of right now... all public libraries have free wi-fi.
The PART bus system has mobile wi-fi on the Greenboro, Winston-Salem, & High Pt. express buses... not sure if the Mt Airy/Boone bus has it or not.
Our regular city buses (GTA) do not but seeing how must of them is standing room only using a computer on them is hopeless.
I know UNCG has wifi in each of their buildings... not sure about GTCC, Greensboro College, or A&T, but if UNCG does I'm pretty sure the other colleges do too... we only have five here.

IMO the biggest obstacle to free city-wide wi-fi is Time Warner cable (Road Runner) and Clearwire. Not to mention Bell South & AT&T. None of them want their subscribers to be able to just turn on their lappy and connect for free.