Philly's City Wi-Fi Still Limping Along

Philadelphia's experiment to provide free citywide wi-fi is not dead yet, but it is short a private partner after losing Earthlink, which failed to achieve 100,000 paying customers as an incentive. The new Mayor--a Democrat who was dubbed "the Seabiscuit of urban politics"--has no interest in it, so the prognosis does not look good, especially with real-world infrastructure in shambles.