Cities unleash free Wi-Fi.

"In late September, research firm MuniWireless.com forecast that U.S. cities and counties will spend nearly $700 million over the next three years to build municipal wireless broadband networks... Roland Van der Meek, a senior partner at Palo Alto, California, venture-capital firm ComVentures, said he doubts most cities will be able to maintain such networks on their own -- especially if they try to offer free or artificially cheap access. 'Since when is the government into running a utility?' he said. 'The economics are crazy. You've got to market it. You've got to make people aware of it. What government is in that business? It doesn't make sense to me.'"