{"id":10537,"date":"2016-06-27T05:45:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T10:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=10537"},"modified":"2022-05-26T09:09:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T14:09:45","slug":"4-reasons-for-small-towns-to-setup-downtown-wifi-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2016\/06\/4-reasons-for-small-towns-to-setup-downtown-wifi-areas.html","title":{"rendered":"4 Reasons for small towns to setup downtown wifi areas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Individual businesses offer wifi now. Is there any good reason to set up downtown-wide wifi? Here are four. Photo by Becky McCray.<\/p><\/div>\n

“Becky….we are looking at installing a downtown wifi area. What are your thoughts on that? I think it is awesome but I know I am going to get….’oh, sure…now the development corp is going to supply free wifi to people! They can pay for their own!'”
\nAngie Schmidt Benz
\nMoffit, North Dakota<\/p>\n

Here are four reasons to consider offering a downtown wifi area:<\/p>\n

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  1. Wifi is crucial for tourism<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. Wifi is important to downtown businesses<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. Wifi is important for truck- and trailer- based businesses and mobile merchants like vendor booths to take credit cards<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  4. Wifi is important for future smart city<\/a> internet-of-things sensors and data that the city and others will want to develop.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now, where can you learn more about towns that are doing something similar now?\u00a0Dig around for resources on these two websites:<\/p>\n

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    1. MuniWireless.com<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. MuniNetworks.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      “Becky….we are looking at installing a downtown wifi area. What are your thoughts on that? I think it is awesome but I know I am going to get….’oh, sure…now the development corp is going to supply free wifi to people! They can pay for their own!’” Angie Schmidt Benz Moffit, North Dakota Here are four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,8,2],"tags":[399,605,626],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Free-wifi-sign-e1466973789625.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13711,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10537\/revisions\/13711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}