Chapel Hill Technology Advisory Committee

[Will R <chtechboard AT yahoo.com>]

Aris,

Location, location, location.  If you look where Orlando deployed their Wifi
you'll see that it didn't serve the general community (residences) and wasn't
near "natural" aggregation zones (I was just at the beach but I didn't lug my
laptop into the surf).  If you look at Carrboro, Weaver St. gets
heavy usage because people naturally congregate there.  The Northside/Pine 
Knolls
initiative is aimed at bridging the last mile to residences especially 
for (but not limited to) students that get computers through the Hargraves 
program.

I agree there's been some failures - hopefully we'll learn from those 
mistakes.

Will

ps.  BTW, Orlando was subsidizing users at $0.45 each - I wonder how that 
compares
to the millions in incentives for developers they mention in the article?

--- Aris Buinevicius <arisb AT channeladvisor.com> wrote:

> Folks, FYI...   Disclaimer: I am in general in favor in moving forward
> with a WiFi strategy, however, I would hope the TC recommendations
> recognize a "dose of reality" in failed/costly implementations.   It
> will be important for the town to understand the complete cost/benefits
> picture to justify the initiative.
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> http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/orl-locwifi21062105jun21,0,6347590.s
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