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In NYC a lot of teens carry iPod or cellphones without data plans. They basically just attempt to connect to whatever free wifi is available. I can see this bei

• jessriedel 11y ago
  You, like almost everyone else responding to me, have missed the idea that smart phones without data plans still are data capable. (The number of teens without any sort of smartphone carrying around an iPhone that gets wifi is negligible.) The point is that the claim "we should support wifi because the poor don't have devices that can access 4G data" is mistaken. Yes, there may be technical issues surrounding swapping SIM cards that makes a municipal 4G network unworkable, but this isn't the issue I'm addressing. It's discussed by one of the other commenters. And in fact, this downside would effect the poor the least since they could just pick-up a free municipal SIM card and us it continuously (since they often can't afford a network dataplan), while those who can afford network data plans would constantly need to swap SIM cards.