Mexico City Wants City-Wide WiFi – Forgets Water And Power
By Will Park on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 at 1:35 PM PST In Announcements, Mobile Web, Partnerships, Services
Mexico City Mayor Mercelo Elbrad has pushed water and power shortage issues aside to push his new free city-wide wifi initiative. Evidently, this new mayor sees high-speed municipal wireless service as a higher priority than basic services like water and power. Well, whatever, the 8 million thirsty and shower-deprived citizens of Mexico City can still enjoy always-on connectivity to their favorite websites. That is, unless there’s a power outage.
China’s ZTE Corp. has inked a deal with Elbrad to provide the wireless network for the city. Network completion is slated for 2008. Part of the wifi initiative includes 4,000 closed-circuit television cameras that will be linked to the wifi network.
Ey!!! who tell you that Mexico City lack´s water and power???
Mexico City, also known as Mexico Distrito Federal, is the most big city in the world. In some places of our enormous city we have problems like this, but most of Mexico DF citizens do not.
I really dont liked what you wrote down: “shower deprived”. If that would be true, like 25 million of people will smell like “·!·%$ and believe me, that´s not the case…
Mexico Rocks!
say wut u want– but Mexico City is a bowl of misprioritized societal aims. THE GOVT SUCKS– im glad im an American which is at least headed somwhere towards progress, and if this was done here… heads would roll. DO NOT sugarcoat the truth… this is why Carlos Sim and his boys are becoming rich because of the corrupt Mexican GOVT- this true– and that is why Mexico will not progress!
@ Luis Alberto Arjona Chin
I meant that “shower” line to be a bit of exaggerated sarcasm. I apologize if it offended you, but I stand by my allusion that it makes no sense to get into a city-wide wireless initiative (a luxury in most people’s eyes) when basics like water and power are not yet city-wide. Even if it’s in remote parts of the city, getting water and power to citizens should be a higher priority than wifi.
I have been to Mexico many times, I like it. People do NOT walk around smelling bad. I was just trying to make a point.