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Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Have WiFi, will prosper

Pioneer Place Park, Seattle, WA

To the next generation, a downtown just isn’t complete without free WiFi, as highlighted yesterday.  So where are these cities?

Intel has put together a nice list - here’s their Most Unwired Cities.

1. Seattle Metro, WA (pictured)
2. San Francisco Bay Area, CA
3. Austin Metro, TX
4. Portland, OR
5. Toledo, OH
6. Atlanta, GA
7. Denver, CO
8. Raleigh-Durham Metro, NC
9. Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
10. Orange County, CA
11. San Diego, CA
12. Chicago, IL
13. Boston, MA
14. Washington, DC
15. Colorado Springs, CO

It should be no surprise then, that many of these cities rank high on the creative class index, as well as economic performance and culture in general.  Seattle is especially on quite a roll - they were just named Most Livable City by the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

How important is WiFi to you? Speak your mind below…


Posted by Neil Takemoto in • Invisible Technology | (2) Comments | Permalink
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Zippy  on  06/162005  at  03:01 AM

Toledo??? I grew up there. Trust me, there is no industrial or economic activity taking place in that city.

Zippy  on  06/162005  at  03:48 AM

You know whats sad.  That my wireless service which is free for my computer is actually faster than my dsl serice that i pay for.  I see why ISP’s don’t want Wifi in the cities.

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