The November 12, 2007 issue of Forbes Magazine (www.forbes.com) included a story about road blocks encountered by Earthlink in setting up municipal Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) networks. Earthlink has installed city wide Wi-Fi service in Anaheim, CA, New Orleans, LA and Milpitas, CA. A similar planned deal with San Francisco, CA has fallen through.
In the process of installing these Wi-Fi networks, Earthlink discovered that installation costs were about twice as much as expected. They found that they needed to install 40 Wi-Fi transmitters per square mile, about twice as many as the 20 originally anticipated.
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