City Wireless Provider Pulls Plug

EarthLink Inc. is pulling the plug on its troubled wireless high-speed Internet network in Philadelphia , once touted as a model for how big cities should deploy Wi-Fi. The Atlanta -based Internet service ...

[inquiring minds]

Just think, if they put the money that they wasted on that project into hiring police, or better yet, put into the school system.

I wonder how much $$$ this project actually cost the city? I'm not talking about the cost of installation, I mean all the studies, and the committees, and the experts hired for this? Now that it's a no-go, are these people still working for the city?

What a waste.

[HTF]

inquiring minds wrote:

are these people still working for the city?

Yes, they are now writing stories about domestic cats dessed up in cougar costumes.

[G W Bush]

If it's wireless why does it need a plug????

[Redneck]

like they need wirelees internet...they will then need to go out and steal a laptop from a working person's car or house....they probably get free wired internet in prison so they can keep up with their hommies