File under “what WERE they thinking”

Here in St. Louis AT&T has a contract to supply muni WiFi across the city. So now we hear that things aren’t going to plan, according to Tim Logan’s story in the P-D today. Apparently, no one bothered to check how the hotspots were going to be electrically powered. Usually for these sorts of projects, the access points are placed atop the street light poles. However, here the lights are powered on in groups, so any muni WiFi network would only be operating between dusk and dawn. You can’t make this stuff up. I guess someone at AT&T is just now realizing this, and I guess we won’t be seeing any muni WiFi anytime soon.