It's hard to say if this will work. Just because people can check Facebook in front of the Prada store doesn't mean they'll buy anything, after all. Also, there are all kinds of costs that will determine whether the public WiFi is worth using. The proposal would cover the the initial hardware, but it won't necessarily cover the running costs -- legions of access points won't matter if they're oversaturated or tend to break down. A finished bill isn't expected to go before parliament until mid-2015, however, so it's likely that this wireless networking plan will go through some revisions before it's set in stone.

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