Wire Those Jaws

WIRE THOSE JAWS
[SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle, AUTHOR: Editorial Staff]
[Commentary] With San Francisco's plan to secure citywide wireless Internet access ready to launch, we have to ask the dissenting supervisors a simple question: Do you want to complain, or do you want to do something positive? Citywide wireless is the kind of experiment that's best left to the private enterprises that specialize in the engineering feats that will be necessary to build and maintain a network on the city's hilly terrain -- especially if they're doing it for free. That's what convinced our neighbors -- Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara and Foster City -- who have either public-private partnerships or privately owned agreements for their services. "It's been a positive experience for us, a real benefit to the community," said Ellis Berns, economic development manager for the city of Mountain View. "I'm mystified about the resistance in San Francisco."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/01/22/EDGC7N72941.DTL