Portland, Oregon, ballpark objects to free Wi-Fi...sort of: The Portland community networking group PersonalTelco worked with a business near minor-league baseball stadium PGE Park -- PGE, a fine division of Enron, poor suckers -- to shoot free wireless in.
Unfortunately, the park's management felt this conflicted with their arrangements with Comcast, a major sponsor. You can understand their concern. Minor league ball teams need all the help they can get to bring in fans and pay the bills. Nonetheless, unlicensed triumphs again. There's really nothing they can to do to stop the free flow.
I hate to hear stories like this. There's no consideration of what the fans might want (like $4 hotdogs). It's evident now, the most of the new handhelds being announced will be supporting wi-fi, probably due to consumer interest. Wi-fi is being driven from the bottom up. Why don't people see this? Who cares about Comcast's lack of imagination? Baseball is a natural for accessing information, watching a stream (how many people bring radios to a game already?), I could even see IRC among the fans. Though hopefully, you won't have 10,000 people with wi-fi enabled handhelds showing up.