Well, don’t hold your breath.
America is a for-profit institution (or, at least, for the profit of our corporations), and that makes free, nationwide public WiFi about as likely as having a government-sponsored public option with health care reform. It’s off the table.
The FCC has been trying to do the right thing with their National Broadband Plan, but, to put it crudely, there is too much money to be made controlling the pipes for there to be any room for the “public” option.
The details on the complicated conundrums involved in this struggle can be read in this Ars Technica story.
It’s an interesting problem.
