Augusta’s citywide Wifi plan: Build it and they will come

No foil hats in Augusta, they’re about to roll thier own Wifi network. The city is the right size, the business model makes sense, and the current generation of equipment makes is easier and cheaper than ever. We give them good odds for success.

Using a grant from the state of Georgia, the city will be spending more than $500,000 to build and deploy the WiFi network over a highly populated area. With most of the deployment costs covered, the city is only looking for an Internet Service Provider (ISP) to operate, market and maintain the network.

“We have reviewed wireless RFP’s from all over the country,” said Gary Hewett, Augusta’s assistant director of information technology, in a statement. “We believe that our ‘build it and they will come’ approach is a model that will work.” (Channel Web)