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NY Times on politics and community wireless groups

January 19th, 2006
Posted by Paul Smith

Glenn Fleishman of Wi-Fi Networking News, writing in the New York Times, looks at how community wireless groups across the country have had to go through a baptism by fire in the course of their efforts and become political savvy (or savvier) to make progress.

Sascha D. Meinrath, [Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network]’s project coordinator, said he saw a political awakening hit the technically focused participants.

“We could develop all of these technologies, we could come up with the holy grail of wireless technologies, and then it would be illegal to deploy it,” he said. After they returned from the conference, several wireless advocates became involved in the political debates over municipal broadband. These debates intensified after Philadelphia announced in late 2004 that it would build a citywide Wi-Fi network.

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