September 15, 2007
Cincinatti’s Muni Wifi project grinds to a halt
The bottom line is no big city wide project will happen at the expense of a for profit company without some commitment from the city itself as an anchor client. While I’m not convinced muni Wifi needs a big company or a city commitment to make it happen, the problem with a commercial enterprise giving everything away for free makes it pretty darn hard to stay in business.
Civitium, a Georgia company that has worked for Chicago, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, among others, was hired to advise local officials. According to the company’s blog, “capital-constrained muni WiFi operators have shifted their business models to require revenue commitments from local governments recently, as a condition for agreeing to build Wi-Fi networks.”
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