Philadelphia details plans for city-wide WiFi

The Man, aka Verizon, couldn't shut 'em down, and now Philadelphia has revealed more details of its plan to bathe 135 square miles of the city in cheap WiFi by mounting wireless access points on streetlights. They're still in the process of accepting bids (it'll be private companies that actually build out the network), but the goal is to launch the service by September of next year with service expected to cost residents somewhere between $16 to $20 a month (you can guess why current broadband providers don't like the plan). The city is also trying to get low-cost PCs into the hands of people who wouldn't normally be able to afford a computer, since otherwise building out a massive inexpensive wireless network would simply mean subsidizing broadband for people who would normally just pay full-price for high-speed Internet access anyway.