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Interesting news out of Grand Haven, MI, in today's TorStar. The town of 12,000 is now a completely urban WiFi (WiMax) hotspot. It is connected Nirvana: everywhere you go from home to the coffee shop to the football stadium, you can be connected for a single monthly fee. It's one small step for . . . The link: Resort town becomes wireless `hotspot' and the snip:
It struck a deal with the city to put up hundreds of antennas in public spaces, and market the signal to the public starting at $19.99 a month. Using one big high-speed fibre cable connected to the Internet, it now beams out a signal on the same unlicensed frequency range wireless phones and garage door openers use, providing high-speed Internet access for Grand Haven's 12,000 residents.Posted by Grayson at September 13, 2004 07:56 AMWhat the successful experiment appears to represent is the inevitable: That high-speed Internet access beyond just pockets of hot spots is finally here.
What it also represents is a sea-change in the way the public will likely get its Internet fix in the near future — something not lost on city officials here in Toronto and elsewhere, such as Philadelphia, Boston, New York and other places in the United States, Canada and beyond.