Garry Betty, Chief Executive of Earthlink is determined to make the entire city of Anaheim California wireless. To implement this, Earthlink has attached little white boxes to 1,500 traffic lights, and at the end of June, Mayor Curt Pringle will cut a ceremonial wire to turn on the 1,500 boxes to create a city-wide, wi-fi network. On the other hand, this wi-fi city Betty is crating isn’t completely free, it will be offered to Anaheim residents for $22 a month, which is still cheaper than most companies internet packages.
Earthlink has already spent $5 million building this wireless network in Anaheim and is expecting about a 15-20% return, if 100,000 homes sign up.
As well as this wi-fi implementation, Betty is also working on getting a wireless cellular phone system put into the city to offer customers unlimited night and weekend calling for a mere $25.00 a month. To implement this idea, he needs to install many wireless towers in Anaheim.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/wireless/0,71228-0.html?tw=wn_technology_2
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