Seattle shut down its municipal wireless network, which has served...
Seattle shut down its municipal wireless network, which has served the city’s university district and Columbia City neighborhoods and four downtown parks for free since 2005. There’s no business model for a free municipal network, and Wi-Fi hotspots have become…
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increasingly available in the city, said Bill Schrier, who recently retired as Seattle’s chief technology officer. The city had considered letting private carriers take over the network, but no one stepped up, he told us. The network had been used to illegally download video content, he noted.