Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle today announced a citywide wireless service coverage initiative to ensure all major cellular phone companies are able to provide full coverage through Anaheim’s 50 square miles. This is in contrast to other cities like San Francisco and Philadelphia that prefer to stifle competoition by only granting city-wide access to a small number of providers like Earthlink or Google.
“It’s only fitting that the United States’ largest municipal Wi-Fi city would have complete and total coverage for all wireless devices, including cellular telephones,†said Mayor Pringle. “For 150 years in Anaheim, we have championed creativity, innovation and imagination – the same ideals that technology companies embody.â€
Good for them. It’s time for leaders in other cities to do the same.