City Hall will seek proposals from private companies to extend high-speed wireless Internet service to all Chicago neighborhoods at little or no cost to consumers, Mayor Richard Daley announced Tuesday.
Exactly how the Wi-Fi system would be installed, how its benefits would be extended even to the city's poorest areas and how the system would provide profits for the company that operates it will be up to the firms that respond, officials said.
If a few larger cities like Chicago adopt community-wide Wi-Fi systems to allow all residents access to low-cost broadband, won't that pretty much kill BPL once and for all?
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