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The Star Tribune loves municipal wi-fi. Okay we get the message. You guys on the editorial board can keep pushing wi-fi in Minneapolis all you want. I have no doubt that the city is going to accept the network because they have to save face. The CIO ain’t going to risk her job over this. At PUSH this week not one, not two, but three different people told me they dropped wi-fi because it was way too unreliable. I hear this same story at least once a week. I know this service either works for you or it doesn’t. I’m not dumping on the USI guys because I believe they are trying hard to make this model work. The problem is that I think this technology is going to be short-lived. I wonder if the city has any provisions for getting out of this contract within the next 5 years?
I wrote an article for the Minneapolis Star Tribune titled Minnesota: An Internet Backwater Soon? I can’t lay claim to the article title but I think it’s kind of catchy. I’ve received positive responses from friends and colleagues. The article was sitting in the editors hands for months so I was happy to finally see it printed. Minnesota like many other regions of our country is facing bandwidth challenges. The major carriers are not stepping up to the plate. We need change.
