New Orleans to Get Free City-Wide WiFi

[BigBank_Hank]

I just don’t understand why worry about something like that now.

I can tell you for a fact that there is no way in hell that city will be close to back to normal in a year. As J2 pointed out it really is like Baghdad there but without tanks.

Lets just say you used to live and work in the city of N.O. Since the hurricane you’ve been staying at a relatives because your house isn’t livable and has to be torn down and rebuilt. You are also unsure if you will have a job to return to when are finally you are able to move back to the city because your employer pulled out of the city and relocated. How would you feel if the Mayor of your city was talking about getting the internet for the entire city instead of worry about your home or job?

[HeavyMetalParkingLot]

What will they use it for? Look for a job? Probably not. Look for more handouts? Probably. Look for porn, like certain people who used the money the government and others gave them to get back on their feet, but instead used it at strip clubs to pay for lap dances? Definitly.

[GepperRankins]

seriously i don't think this is gonna make a dent in the budget, and it's gonna rawk some. maybe they could look on wikipedia and get educated

[thewizeard]

Come on guys, after losing all their belongings, beds, linnen and blankets..they are going to be blanketed with WiFi, which will be very handy in the sub-artic temperatures of New-Orleans...

[Busyman]

Where does it say the focus is Internet access ?

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has announced that the entire city of New Orleans will be blanketed by a free WiFi network within a year.

It is one of the projects in the reconstruction. It is not taking priority over the "cities vitals"
Judging by this over reaction one might think that Nagin said we are putting everything on hold so we can install wifi

Money sure is being spent on it and at a time when every dollar is needed.

It's fucking stupid. DC doesn't have citywide wifi and it'd benefit the city more than NO.

Picture that and take it into perspective.

"A bomb just dropped on the city and one project we are undertaking is citywide wireless internet access. This will help boost the economy."

Citywide internet access is something you put in when the fucking city has a heartbeat....IF EVER.

[vidcc]

Thanks to Intel Corp., Tropos Networks and Pronto Networks who donated most of the hardware necessary for the project, these hardwares will be mounted on top of street lights in order to cover the whole city.

It's fucking stupid. DC doesn't have citywide wifi and it'd benefit the city more than NO.

Unless work on the other rebuilding stops or slows down to do this I can't see why the complaints

[Busyman]

It's fucking stupid. DC doesn't have citywide wifi and it'd benefit the city more than NO.

Unless work on the other rebuilding stops or slows down to do this I can't see why the complaints

Money sure is being spent on it and at a time when every dollar is needed.

Add to the fact that government run wifi spots are rarely viable and usually shut down.

It doesn't do the city good (especially this city) and drains money.

What part of it aren't you getting? It's as dumb as the NO government wanting to cover a buildings with PB & J...even if other work isn't stopping.

[vidcc]

What part of it aren't you getting?

Oh I get you point of view, I just don't agree with it.

[BigBank_Hank]

@Vid incase he missed it:

Lets just say you used to live and work in the city of N.O. Since the hurricane you’ve been staying at a relatives because your house isn’t livable and has to be torn down and rebuilt. You are also unsure if you will have a job to return to when are finally you are able to move back to the city because your employer pulled out of the city and relocated. How would you feel if the Mayor of your city was talking about getting the internet for the entire city instead of worry about your home or job?

[Everose]

I am trying to make sense of this.

The only thing I can think of is it someway helps not only the City workers but FEMA inspectors?

I know right now a lot of people whose homes weren't totally destroyed are commuting into the City to repair them. From what I have heard a lot of them (homeowners) are now waiting on inspections to be made by the City. A lot hinges on these inspections, because if the City determines they have actually had to make repairs over fifty percent of the home's value, they have to rebuild said home to comply with their flood plain ordinance........such as ON STILTS. This is even if their insurance company's tell them their damage was only forty percent. I could see where this would help with correspondence that way.

That is really the only sense I can make of this. Of course, there is always Economic Development.