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Information Technology News Boom times predicted for municipal WLANs
Information Technology News Boom times predicted for municipal WLANs | Boom times predicted for municipal WLANs |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Thursday, 26 July 2007 | |
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These benefits are said to include include making free broadband wireless Internet access available to mobile professionals and citizens, on-the-spot police and fire department access to time sensitive information, lower communication costs for government agencies and improved reputations as 'cutting edge' cities. "While some cities are looking to expand internet access to disadvantaged citizens, others want to provide government workers with connectivity to internal systems while in the field. Other cities are driven to attract new businesses to their communities," says the report's author, Datamonitor government technology analyst Kate McCurdy. "A public-private partnership business model is attractive to both local governments and service providers because it allows each to focus on its core competencies – serving constituents and providing internet service," she added. "The most successful dynamics go one step further, however, and make the local government the 'anchor tenant' on the network."
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