Wilkes-Barre is scorching with nine metro-Fi proposals: The city solicited bids for a municipal-scale wireless data network and received nine from companies that include Motorola and Clearwire. Due to the Pennsylvania anti-municipal broadband law that restricts new development, the city must have its plan together by the end of 2005. However, they can still grovel to the incumbents if they miss the deadline, begging them for a waiver to allow them to have a private company operate a network within the town's borders.
Oklahoma City could leverage existing public safety network for public Wi-Fi: The city has a 620-square-mile network in place. They'd have to make sure they could segregate and prioritize traffic, and would probably partner with a private firm to handle the ISP side. They'd also need to add more access points. The local chamber of commerce has also put out a request for information (RFI) for hotspots in certain key business districts.