The Federal Trade Commission today mapped out the terrain for American municipalities considering rolling out their own Wi-Fi Networks.
Chief among the regulator's concerns is to ensure that local authorities do not torpedo the competition. But its report "Municipal Provision of Wireless Internet,
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is less a series of dos and don'ts than a "decision-tree framework [that] seeks to reduce the possible competitive harms arising from a municipality operating as both a market participant and a regulator". Muni WiFi is not a one size fits-all option, and is unsuitable for some municipalities, the FTC says.[MORE]