NEWS: FTC issues competition guidelines for Muni Wi-Fi

<http://www.theregister.com/2006/10/10/ftc_issues-muni_wifi_guidelines/print.html>

The Federal Trade Commission today mapped out the terrain for
American municipalities considering rolling out their own Wi-Fi
Networks.

Chief among the regulator's concerns is to ensure that local
authorities do not torpedo the competition. But its report "Municipal
Provision of Wireless Internet,

(http://www.ftc.gov/os/2006/10/V06002...ssinternet.pdf)
is less a series of dos and don'ts than a "decision-tree framework
[that] seeks to reduce the possible competitive harms arising from a
municipality operating as both a market participant and a regulator".
Muni WiFi is not a one size fits-all option, and is unsuitable for
some municipalities, the FTC says.

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