More astroturf from telco mouthpieces

Last week saw another round of Astroturf broadsides against municipal wireless from a teco-backed “research” organization. This time the attack on “Wi-Fi waste” attacked projects that were not even Wi-Fi.Last week saw another astroturf attack on municipal wireless from a telco-backed “research” organization.

Following the release last week of The Pacific Research Institute’s (PRI) report, Wi-Fi Waste: The Disaster of Municipal Communications Networks, Glenn Fleishman at Wi-Fi Networking News shredded the report, pointing out that all but a handful of the projects that the PRI examined were not W-Fi at all, that the PRI’s funding sources include telcos that have led the charge to defeat competition that these projects bring to their markets, and that the data is three years old.

Click here to read Glenn’s take on the biases and misplaced emphasis in the PRI report.

Click here to read a copy of the report (if only to amuse yourself by finding all that’s wrong in the picture.)