Thursday, September 2, 2004

Wi-Fi all over Philly

For about $10 million, city officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world’s largest wireless Internet hot spot. The plan, now in the works, would involve placing hundreds, or maybe thousands of small transmitters around the city, probably atop lampposts, each capable of communicating with the wireless networking cards that now come standard with many computers.

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