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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

    Raise the curtain.

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    community wireless (none / 0) (#6)
    by nammeroo on Tue Mar 22, 2011 at 09:43:49 PM EST
    For those municipalities foolish enough to think that wireless Internet should be treated like another municipal utility, or that "free" wireless Internet should be provided as a government service, please check out these two websites:

    http://www.wireless.ypsi.com/

    This is the website for the best community-based cooperative business model for SUCCESSFULLY providing "free" wireless Internet on a local level.  Nobody does it better, and the founders of Wireless Ypsi are willing to share their knowledge and employ their expertise to help your community do the same thing.

    Before you get any ideas, this is an entirely private effort - in fact, the original "home" government was openly hostile to the project in its early years.

    http://www.annarbor.com/business-review/wireless-washtenaw-what-happened/

    This is the link to the failed public/private partnership which was supposed to provide "free" wireless Internet to the entire county, including the areas now covered by Wireless Ypsi.  

    Wireless Ypsi has operated successfully and grown during bad economic times with little publicity and a very effective, low cost business model.  During the same period, Wireless Washtenaw has burned through hundreds of thousands of dollars in "investment capital, much of it from government sources, with virtually nothing to show for it.

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