Dianah Neff, Philadelphia's Chief Information Officer

The City of Philadelphia, the fifth largest in the United States, has announced its intention to provide every resident of that city with broadband wireless access. You can read about this development in the Philadelphia Inquirer and on CNN.com.

You can get a first-hand account of Philadelphia's bold plan for ubiquitous broadband wireless access for everyone living there by listening to Broadband Wireless Access World's audio interview with Dianah Neff, the Chief Information Officer of the city.
You can read the press release announcing the appointment of the Wireless Philadelphia Executive Committee, which will be preparing a business and funding plan for universal wireless access there, by clicking here.

You can read about one mayoral candidate in the 2002 San Fernando Valley Secession Election calling for ubiquitous broadband wireless access for everyone in a (proposed) city of 1.4 million (Philadelphia's population is about 1.6 million) by clicking here.

To see and hear the TechTV report on this early campaigner's effort to bring about in 2002 what Philadelphia is doing in 2004, click here.