The Yankee Group reports that it costs as much as $5,000 to deploy a hot spot, and as much as $500 a month to operate it.
Manchester Community Technologies worked with a nonprofit called LAURA to deploy a Wi-Fi hot spot there.
Last week, it announced plans to deploy hot-spot connections in 122 Hyatt Hotels in North America.
The U.S. Army used it to judge whether troops were sufficiently prepared to deploy in hot spots.
New policing technologies allow law enforcement agencies to learn about local crime trends in real time and to deploy resources to hot spots.
SchoolStat borrows the tactics of the Compstat program — regular, intense meetings in which police officials famously pick apart crime data and, just as often, their subordinates — to analyze police performance and crime trends, and to deploy resources to trouble spots.
Such a system would give the prime minister both the electoral mandate and the political power to deploy troops in trouble spots, and to sign treaties which are likely to be ratified by the parliament.America's system, with a more or less directly elected president, is a good model.
But once the Soviet Union's demise was no longer in doubt, Mr. Marshall became a tenacious advocate of fundamental change, deeply critical of cold war forces and systems that he found no longer solved the nation's military problems -- for example, Army units too large and too heavy to deploy quickly to hot spots.
"We realized that if we could deploy a free hot spot at a given location, there would be no incentive for a commercial provider to ever set up a network there.
One benefit is that we do not need to deploy roadside infrastructure to the spots where the connected component forms, because the connectivity can be maintained by the connected component.
