“We’re finally coming back around to ideas that were around before the
corporate franchise was shown to be a failure,” says
Sascha Meinrath,
research director of the
New America Foundation’s Wireless Future
Program, who launched one of the nation’s first community wireless
projects while he was a graduate student at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. “So much money was being spent to push the
corporate model that it was all cities heard about. There was no PR or
marketing for community wireless groups. But unlike the corporations,
their focus has always been maximizing the public good.”
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