Municipal Wi-Fi: Not A Matter of "If", but "When"

The Wi-Fi fever that I caught a few weeks ago is still raging, with no signs of abating!

I've been reading a lot of exciting news about municipal Wi-Fi this week. People want it, and they want it bad, and local governments want to provide it. But municipal Wi-Fi has some powerful enemies, i.e. the telecommunications industry and the cable TV industry: these industries stand to lose some serious profits if local governments start offering cheap and free wireless access to the Internet. But cheap and free Internet access is good, and it's right; it'll help to close the digital divide, and should also cause the price for wired broadband service to come down. My guess is that municipal Wi-Fi is a snowball that's just starting to tumble down the hill; it will quickly grow into a massive and unstoppable force that not even those highly paid lobbyists on Capital Hill can do anything about. Viva municipal Wi-Fi!

Here a list of some related names I registered today:

MunicipalWi-Fi.com
MetropolitanWi-Fi.com

MunicipalWi-Fi.us
MunicipalWi-Fi.info
MunicipalWi-Fi.org
MetropolitanWi-Fi.org

MuniWi-Fi.us
MuniWi-Fi.org

CityWi-Fi.com
USWi-Fi.com
USAWi-Fi.com
Wi-FiUSA.com
Wi-FiUK.com
Wi-FiEU.com

LAWi-Fi.com
NYWi-Fi.com
NYCWi-Fi.com
PhillyWi-Fi.com

SDWi-Fi.com
Wi-FiSD.com

USBWi-Fi.com
Wi-FiUSB.com

Wi-FiSafety.com
Wi-FiSafety.info
Wi-FiSafety.org

Wi-FiCommunity.com

VOWi-Fi.info

In a few months, I'll report on how these names have been performing traffic-wise. Stay tuned!