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February 14, 2007

LA Goes Wireless

by AltHippo @ 11:51 am. Filed under Life in D.C.

Come on, DC. You gonna let a bunch of West Coast surf dudes and lotus eaters beat you in the race for wifi nirvana?

(For the record, Alexandria is planning something along these lines. Downtown Silver Spring, like Dupont Circle is allegedly a wifi hotspot, but my experience suggests otherwise. More like a notspot.)

From Washington Monthly:

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced today that Los Angeles will soon create a citywide wireless internet network:

“If successful, the plan would create the nation’s largest municipal Wi-Fi networks in terms of square miles covered and the number of people given access….”With L.A. Wi-Fi, we are dedicating ourselves to the idea that universal access to technology makes our entire economy stronger,” Villaraigosa said.”

Sounds great. But considering that you can’t even use a cellphone in LA’s subway system more than a decade after it first opened, I’ll believe it when I see it.

Surprisingly, phones work in the DC Metro very well. Too, well. This morning I was doing the Express crossword puzzle (who edits the Express crossword these days, btw, Ted Kaczynski ?) when the family from Planet Noise sat next to me. Mother Noise and the Noisettes were trying to see who had the highest pitched scream. Father Noise went back and forth from questioning a woman 20 feet away, and rapping into his cell phone.

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