Dave Heck, CIO for the city of Tempe, Ariz., remembers when municipal Wi-Fi advocates talked four years ago about wireless networks as shining beacons that would bring the Internet to the masses. Today, in Tempe, that optimism is nearly gone. Tempe’s city-wide Wi-Fi system went live in 2006, offering some 900 access points installed on city-owned poles for the city’s 160,000 residents and businesses; now, it’s basically dead.

Via: Computer World