Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Below are a set of photos for a story depecting the municipal wireless Internet problems the city of Lompoc is experiencing. The city needs 4,000 subscribers to break even on their investment but only a few hundred have signed up for a nearly year-old service that is plagued with complaints. Photos are of the mayor of the city along with shots of the wireless transmitters strapped to the lightpoles around town.

The real challenge was finding vantage points that would show the transmitters with houses, considering Lompoc is a mostly single-story community in a broad, flat valley.

(Not too exciting, but they can't all be baseball and breaking news!)