Free wireless broadband access coming to the US?

Huzzah, free porn for everyone.

Seriously, most people use broadband primarily for entertainment.

So this is a government subsidy of entertainment. Or rather, a government program to encourage everyone to sit at home watching Hulu.

I have mixed feelings...

yar, free internet it'll save people so much money per year. But i hope they have restriction on bandwidth and usage time, kind of hard to maintain if everyone's jacking up bandwidth.

Are you kidding me! When the government use the word "free", it usually means taxpayers are getting the bills. All the government is doing is taking your hard earned money and giving you back a penny on every dollar.

Free internet? Can't wait to see what the ISP providers will have to say about it...

I`ve heard of this kind of plans for cities all over the world for many years now, let`s hope this one comes true in the near future so various countries can get on it too.

i live in canada and i don't get free wifi?! maybe in larger cities and downtown toronto

wow very good news for American......we just paying $22 for 256kbps speed unlimited.....thinking when we can have sucha net......oh ! my my

Definatly agree on the screwing of the people when it comes to internet. There's gotta be a catch considering that old saying, nothing is free...If there was free internet im sure plenty of people who dont use the internet for gaming would just quit their plan and use the free stuff, causing more job loss in america. Now that you think of it, is free internet worth losing all thoes jobs??

Let's work some new Cisco CRS-3 routers into this plan! At a mere $90,000 per unit, it's a steal *wink for Cisco, that is...

Free internet? Not going to happen.
Free internet countrywide? WHAT A JOKE.

hey thats a great move! i think all nations should encourage it! but if it is free then i think that the speed will be slow! lets wait and see what happens!

wats considered broadband 1.5 mps? by next year 1.5 mbps wont be enough for crap. providers will still make money on faster stuff

I like free stuff. specially free internet. Bring it!!!!

Free HAH mr taxpayer will suffer ie all of us, but the FCC has been trying very hard to make this work

America comes first with new technology and services. Now, they'll launch this free broadband project!... Citizens thereof are lucky... Would there be a chance for free broadband worldwide?!....

As attractive as this sounds, NOTHING in life is free. Somebody has to pay for it, and if the government is paying for it, then guess what, WE are paying for it. I'd rather be the judge of how my Internet money is spent, not the government.

The "second class" argument is pretty weak too.

Free services are bad, because company does not care about it customers. plus its prone to abuse. Better charge a *small* fee

I also like the plan to provide wireless broadband internet in America. The number of internet users of course will increase by it's percentage shown above. But the question is, will this free internet wireless broadband affects some Internet Service Provider. I guess it greatly affects because I noticed as of today Internet Service Providers are emerging to provide internet connections in homes, businesses and even in schools. I don't know yet, what's really the impact of this implementation.

I just gonna hope that not only US will give free internet wireless broadband to its people but also in the other continents like asia and africa. Because its quite frustrating that in a month, we need to have some extra money just to pay the Internet Service Provider for us to have an internet connection.

I guess that this wireless broadband have a faster speeds than ever broadband that I've seen.

who manages ths if it goes belly up n whats the SLA if it goes belly up?