Smart Cincy: free, high-speed Wi-Fi along the city’s streetcar route bridges digital divide

The city of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Bell launched a partnership that will place the city on the cutting edge of competitiveness, allowing it to run its government more efficiently and deliver solutions for our constituents, according to Councilmember P.G. Sittenfeld, chair of the City Council’s Education, Innovation and Growth Committee.


The plan, continues John Putnam, Smart Cities program manager at Cincinnati Bell, is to make the central business district an economic development tool for both residents and visitors. Four venues have already been connected to free, high-speed Wi-Fi and will hopefully be linked together through the streetcar route within six months to a year.

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