July 8th, 2005
Citywide Wi-Fi costs $150,000 per square mile in maintenance costs over 5 years
JupiterResearch has come to the conclusion that the average cost of building and maintaining a municipal wireless network is $150,000 per square mile over 5 years. The report goes on to say that about half of the initiatives today to create city or county-backed wireless networks will not even break even, even if they charge end users as much as $25 per month in subscription fees.
Alex is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. ITFacts is created and updated by a group of statistics-obsessed individuals.
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