{"id":2492,"date":"2007-06-06T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2492"},"modified":"2007-06-06T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T19:39:00","slug":"creative-public-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/creative-public-wi-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative public wi-fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Bringing+public+Wi-Fi+to+small-town+America\/2100-1039_3-6188911.html?part=rss&#038;tag=2547-1_3-0-20&#038;subj=news\">CNet <\/a> writes about some creative solutions Smalltown, USA may need to take advantage of to bring public Wi-Fi to town.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;while thousands of towns are interested in developing municipal networks, few vendors are willing to take on small projects.<br \/>\n&#8220;I think towns are putting out RFPs faster than the industry can respond. I mean, there are several thousand cities pursuing this; there are only so many vendors pursuing smaller cities,&#8221; Mitch Gorsen, vice president at MultiState Associates, said in an interview&#8230;<br \/>\nEarthLink and AT&#038;T in a panel at MuniWireless New England here on Tuesday said that population density is a factor when they consider taking on a project. As businesses, they want to see a return on their investment through things like subscription services or advertising revenue, depending on the business model.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Bringing+public+Wi-Fi+to+small-town+America\/2100-1039_3-6188911.html?part=rss&#038;tag=2547-1_3-0-20&#038;subj=news\">Read more at CNet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNet writes about some creative solutions Smalltown, USA may need to take advantage of to bring public Wi-Fi to town. &#8230;while thousands of towns are interested in developing municipal networks, few vendors are willing to take on small projects. &#8220;I think towns are putting out RFPs faster than the industry can respond. I mean, there &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/creative-public-wi-fi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creative public wi-fi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techno"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Ec","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}