Spokane, Washington city officials and private developers activated what they call the largest deployment of wireless Internet coverage in any urban area in the United States.
“A lot of communities have hot spots,” said Jim West, mayor of the city of 200,000. “We have a hot zone.”
The zone uses new technology that allows Internet signals to be transmitted more than a mile, far beyond the traditional 200- to 300-foot range of Wi-Fi antennas.
City officials put the cost of the project, which requires just a few antennas atop buildings, at between $50,000 and $75,000.
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