Can Investors Save Philly’s Wi-Fi Network?

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For now, it seems that the answer is yes. Being the largest city Wi-Fi network apparently got too expensive for EarthLink and it ended up planning to shut down the network after not being able to find a buyer. Thankfully a group of investors from Philly itself came in at the last minute to take over and they plan to also expand on the network’s coverage.

Instead of selling monthly subscriptions like what EarthLink did, they plan to offer the service for free and supplement it instead with advertisements. I’m not sure if this would work as there have been a number of similar business models folding across the country. The latest, MetroFi, is just one such case.

Still, it would be interesting to see if this will work but for now and I hope it does. Who’s complaining about free Wi-Fi as long as the ads system does not slow down my computer and connection. Who’s up for it? (via cNet)

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