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As Craig noted in the "Free wireless places" thread, all of Chinatown in downtown Honolulu will become a WiFi hotspot later this summer, free for a year. It's a partnership between the city, HECO, and Earthlink. Here's the article in Pacific Business News, and Mayor Mufi Hanneman's official announcement.
A pretty decent swath of downtown -- Fort Street to River Street, Nimitz Highway to Beretania Street. Though I wonder why the area skews west, and doesn't cover the business district east of Fort Street (Bishop Street, Alakea, even the Capitol district). Ease of deployment? Building densities? Possible conflicts with existing corporate and government networks?
And... anyone know when "later this summer" might actually be?
I wonder what effect the plan will have on those that currently, or planned to, offer paid wireless access downtown? I wonder what the implications are for businesses that might not neccessarily want reachable signals within their walls?
Finally, an interesting comment:
I wonder how the blacklist will be managed? How conservative will the policy be?
A pretty decent swath of downtown -- Fort Street to River Street, Nimitz Highway to Beretania Street. Though I wonder why the area skews west, and doesn't cover the business district east of Fort Street (Bishop Street, Alakea, even the Capitol district). Ease of deployment? Building densities? Possible conflicts with existing corporate and government networks?
And... anyone know when "later this summer" might actually be?
I wonder what effect the plan will have on those that currently, or planned to, offer paid wireless access downtown? I wonder what the implications are for businesses that might not neccessarily want reachable signals within their walls?
Finally, an interesting comment:
"There might be some restrictions as to which sites people can visit to protect the public," [city CIO Gordon] Bruce said. "But basically, they'll be able to surf the Web as if they were at home."
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