Vejam no Observatório das Cibercidades. Comunicação, Cibercultura e Espaço Urbano um excelente artigo sobre a criação de zonas wi-fi em cidade com parcerias entre as municipalidades e empresas. Vejam esse excerto e para visão completa veja no link acima:

Companies That Fought Cities On Wi-Fi, Now Rush to Join In
By AMOL SHARMA
March 20, 2006;

Having tried to stop cities from offering cut-rate or free wireless Internet access to their citizens, some large phone and cable companies are now aiming to get into the market themselves.Telecom and cable giants have traditionally been critical of city-sponsored broadband initiatives, questioning their financial viability and, in somecases, even pushing for state laws to bar or restrict them. Now, in an effort to compete with similar initiatives by Google Inc., EarthLink Inc. and others, some of the companies are changing their tune.”