By Cyrus Farivar
To read the headlines, you’d think the dream of free, citywide wireless was dead coast to coast. One after another, big municipal Wi-Fi projects — San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta — have hit the skids. But check out the rest of the map: Dozens of lower-profile locales are launching government-sponsored networks. Most are smaller cities and counties, where bureaucracies are less onerous and costs are lower. (Philadelphia, the sixth-largest US city, is the biggest urban area to get a network running, with about 100 square miles of coverage.) Road trip? Here’s where to jump online. Download the pdf (224k)
