Toledo: From Industrial Heartland To Wireless Mecca

"Simply by connecting an antenna to his high-speed Internet connection, he has allowed all the laptop-toting customers in his diner to surf the Web. And he is just one of a groundswell of business-owners and citizens here who are broadcasting wireless Internet to anyone who wants it - sometimes for a charge, sometimes not - making Toledo America's fifth most "unwired" city, above the likes of Denver and Boston, according to a survey by Intel.

...It is a curious distinction for a city still struggling to become more than a memorial to America's vanishing industrial heartland ...Experts suggest that Toledo's ascendance is but one part of a broader revolution that could bridge the "digital divide."