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"Oh lord, I was just trying to get them to go away! Lord oh lord! Don't even know why I gave em the money, I don't even want no municipal wifi!"]]>Feb 8th 2008 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/earthlink-puts-municipal-wifi-business-up-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/earthlink-puts-municipal-wifi-business-up-for-sale/
people pay you to write for them?]]>Feb 8th 2008 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/earthlink-puts-municipal-wifi-business-up-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/earthlink-puts-municipal-wifi-business-up-for-sale/
I think it takes remote installs by volunteers to work properly, otherwise the overhead just eats up all the funding.

Where's the tech heads on this site? Speak up.]]>Feb 8th 2008 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/earthlink-puts-municipal-wifi-business-up-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/earthlink-puts-municipal-wifi-business-up-for-sale/
See below:

Earthlink apparently hasn't found any takers just yet, however, and there's no word about how much their asking for it.......

YOU THINK MAYBE YOU COULD USE THE WORD "THEY'RE" AS IN "THEY'RE ASKING FOR IT"? As in, "they are" asking for it.

It's ludicrous that people have jobs as so-called journalists and yet they cannot use the language correctly.

Hire a proofreader!]]>Feb 9th 2008 12:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/earthlink-puts-municipal-wifi-business-up-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/earthlink-puts-municipal-wifi-business-up-for-sale/Feb 9th 2008 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/earthlink-puts-municipal-wifi-business-up-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/earthlink-puts-municipal-wifi-business-up-for-sale/
...and...

+10 points to sTEVEN for the Galloping Gertie reference. ]]>Feb 9th 2008 12:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/earthlink-puts-municipal-wifi-business-up-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/earthlink-puts-municipal-wifi-business-up-for-sale/
Laughing bit is that much of the city is covered via residential open WiFi conections ...

In the under served areas I will second the .......

"I think it takes remote installs by volunteers to work properly, otherwise the overhead just eats up all the funding."

Municipal WiFi is one of those things that is so easy to do at the Grassroots level ... but as soon as municipality tries to monetize / pass off to the telecom issues start to appear]]>Feb 10th 2008 10:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/earthlink-puts-municipal-wifi-business-up-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/earthlink-puts-municipal-wifi-business-up-for-sale/Feb 10th 2008 2:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/earthlink-puts-municipal-wifi-business-up-for-sale/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/earthlink-puts-municipal-wifi-business-up-for-sale/Feb 10th 2008 6:12AM