{"id":121,"date":"2006-01-11T20:38:33","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T15:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/wp\/?p=36"},"modified":"2006-01-11T20:38:33","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T15:08:33","slug":"municipal-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/11\/municipal-wi-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"Municipal Wi-fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many American cities- <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2005\/10\/18\/politics-of-san-francisco-wifi-project\/\">San Francisco is the most well known example<\/a>, but Philadelphia and some others are also planning it- are planning to roll out free wireless broadband networks covering the entire city.<\/p>\n<p>If you have an opinion, please answer the following questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Is this a waste of public money? Shouldn&#8217;t municipalities be more concerned with providing water, police and fire services, garbage disposal and so on?<\/li>\n<li>Would your answer to question 1 change if the city in question was Bombay or Bangalore or Belgaum or Patiala? Why?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: For question two, I don&#8217;t really care about the <em>relative<\/em> waste of public money, or that San Francisco can afford to waste public money. What I&#8217;m asking is if internet access is an essential municipal service in the first world and not the third (or two-point-fifth) world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many American cities- San Francisco is the most well known example, but Philadelphia and some others are also planning it- are planning to roll out free wireless broadband networks covering the entire city. If you have an opinion, please answer the following questions: Is this a waste of public money? Shouldn&#8217;t municipalities be more concerned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,31,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-public-policy-and-politics","category-telecom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-1X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}