Holy Toledo! A Surprising Leader in Wireless Access

[SOURCE: The Christian Science Monitor, AUTHOR: Mark Sappenfield]
Toledo -- home of the Mud hens, the Rockets and Tony Packo's -- is America's fifth most "unwired" city, above the likes of Denver and Boston, according to a survey by Intel. In any public library, at the airport, and even at the minor-league ballpark, for instance, Toledoans can surf the Web, wire-free. It is a curious distinction for a city still struggling to become more than a memorial to America's vanishing industrial heartland. Yet experts suggest that Toledo's ascendance is but one part of a broader revolution that could bridge the "digital divide." Since the dawn of wireless Internet, futurists have dreamed of the day that the technology would spread Web access to people and places left behind - from inner cities to the remotest hinterland. Today, "things are starting to tip," says Paul Butcher of Intel, a top chipmaker. Read more about the success, but also the tribulations of Glass City at the URL below.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1109/p01s04-ussc.html