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Originally Posted by dakkon2k
Rest stops to become Wi-Fi hot spots
Roadside welcome centers, rest stops and weigh stations along major Florida roads will be Internet stops in addition to pit stops under a transportation department plan.
The Florida Department of Transportation is planning to install between 50 and 60 Wi-Fi hot spots at roadside facilities.
The free hot spots will be along major roads like I-95 and Florida's Turnpike.
Department officials are in talks with Austin-based Coach Connect, which provides a similar service in Oregon and Washington and at RV parks nationwide.
A department spokesman said the service will not cost the state or motorists anything and that the company will make its money off advertising.
Users will be kept to a 30-minute time limit.
You better surf that pr0n fast!
Those are pretty good numbers 50-60 of the states 83 rest-stops and 22 weigh stations.
Think MikeP was doing some wifi already @ a couple weigh stations.
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We are doing wireless at Ag. Inspection Stations. The weigh stations are usually about a mile or so down the road. The truckers get out of one station and up to speed just in time to start gearing back down for the line into the next station. Your government and tax dollars at work.
I read the specs in the RFP and we decided to pass. FDOT wants someone to build a very tight network with several layers of redundancy, maintain it statewide wide with very tight response time contracts, squeeze out a little profit, and turn over most of the money to FDOT.
I'm not sure how everyone is going to make money and still give the service away. That is a hell of a lot of advertising in a 30 minute window. Especially when you either cut the car off and sit in a hot parking lot, or you run the car and a/c at $3 a gallon.
I see another boondogle that will quietly go away after everyone involved has lost their ass. I prefer working the projects that I can show a clear business case for, that help the state save my tax dollars. (And give me back a few of them.)
MikeP