Tim Carmody lusts after the wireless Internet in Seoul, the best connected city in the world. Now officials are planning to bring WiFi to every street corner in the city:
Seoul's problem (such as it is) illustrates both the genius and the frustrations of municipal wireless plans worldwide. They boil down to this: City and regional governments don't want to blanket their jurisdiction in Wi-Fi for the benefit of their citizens. At least not directly. They need data coverage for government workers: police, fire, emergency responders, city inspectors, parking meter readers, and so forth. Putting Wi-Fi everywhere a city worker might go means putting Wi-Fi everywhere in a city.
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