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The Taipei Wi-Fi Project
Taipei gets world’s largest Wi-Fi grid: This makes that St. Louis plan look almost quaint by comparison.
It’s the love of this kind of connectivity that is driving Taipei city planners to build what they say will be the world’s biggest “Wi-Fi” network, making cheap, wireless Internet access available almost everywhere in the Taiwan capital.
My bet us that you won’t get decent reception in the elevators.
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Big Telcos Oppose Community Wi-fi Projects
Telecoms lobby against public wireless networks: While we love hearing about community wi-fi projects like those in St. Louis and Taipei, telecommunications companies don't. Providing this service is what they make money doing, and they're actively opposing many community wi-fi projects across the country. A chief complaint: a city can…
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Taipei 101 Elevators
Extreme Machines: World's Fastest Elevator: I was watching a great History Channel series on skyscrapers which included a sidebar on the elevators at one of the world's tallest buildings: Taipei 101. The 1667-ft., 101-story building has 67 elevator units, including two that service the 89th-floor observation deck and qualify as the…
St. Louis Unwires Downtown
St. Louis to offer free wireless Internet network to lure business and residents downtown "The city of St. Louis is setting up what could be the nation's largest, free, wireless Internet network in hopes of drawing techno-savvy businesses, tourists and residents to the downtown business district. The city has teamed up…
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Wow. I ::live:: in St. Louis and I can't say I've ever heard of the wi-fi plan here.
I live in Taipei and so far the only WI-FI place I've found is at the airport.
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