Seattle Tops Chart of Most Un-Wired Cities (top 100 cities list)

Intel has just released their list of most Un-wired cities in America and Seattle has taken the top spot away from San Francisco, last year's winner. Intel credits the continued growth of hotspots and WiFi usage to wireless enabled notebooks, PDAs, Tablet PCs, Smartphones and other mobile devices. Built-in WiFi is on the rise in all of these segments, and will even reach 100% saturation in laptops by 2007.

Beyond wireless growth in mobile devices, hotspots are popping up everywhere from the more mundane places like cafes and coffee shops, to ski slopes and sporting venues.

A few interesting notes:
This year's #19 Baton Rouge, La. made the biggest jump overall, climbing 67 spots from its #86 ranking last year.
Holy Toledo! Toledo, Ohio jumped a remarkable 59 spots in this year's survey, breaking into the top five (#5) after finishing #64 last year.
#29 Melbourne-Titusville-Palm Bay, Fla. up 44 spots from #73 last year.
#48 Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, N.C. up 42 spots from #90 last year.
#27 Nashville, Tenn. up 41 spots from #68 last year.
#52 Knoxville, Tenn. up 41 spots from #93 last year.
#17 Charlotte-Gastonia, N.C.-Rock Hill, S.C. up 40 spots from #57 last year.
Footloose and WiFi Free - St. Louis had the largest percentage of free hotspots (40 percent), followed by Austin-San Marcos, Texas (36 percent), Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn. (33 percent), Dayton-Springfield, Ohio (32 percent) and Knoxville, Tenn. (30 percent).

Top 100 Un-Wired Cities

RANKMSA
1Seattle-Bellevue-Everett-Tacoma, Wash.
2San Francisco-San Jose-Oakland, Calif.
3Austin-San Marcos, Texas
4Portland, Ore. - Vancouver, Wash.
5Toledo, Ohio
6Atlanta
7Denver
8Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, N.C.
9Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.
10Orange County, Calif.
11San Diego
12Chicago
13Boston
14Washington, D.C.
15Colorado Springs, Colo.
16Columbus, Ohio
17Charlotte-Gastonia, N.C. - Rock Hill, S.C.
18Sacramento, Calif.
19Baton Rouge, La.
20Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
21New York-Nassau-Suffolk, N.Y. - Newark, N.J.
22West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, Fla.
23Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas
24Los Angeles-Long Beach, Calif.
25Kansas City, Mo./Kan.
26Milwaukee-Waukesha, Wis.
27Nashville, Tenn.
28Houston
29Melbourne-Titusville-Palm Bay, Fla.
30Albuquerque, N.M.
31Hartford, Conn.
32Charleston-North Charleston, S.C.
33Salt Lake City-Ogden, Utah
34Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Fla.
35St. Louis
36Jacksonville, Fla.
37Detroit
38New Orleans
39Richmond-Petersburg, Va.
40Vallejo-Fairfield-Napa, Calif.
41San Antonio
42Las Vegas
43Cincinnati
44Baltimore
45Ann Arbor, Mich.
46Albany-Schenectady-Troy, N.Y.
47Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle, Pa.
48Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, N.C.
49Orlando, Fla.
50Philadelphia
51Ventura, Calif.
52Knoxville, Tenn.
53Pittsburgh
54Fresno, Calif.
55Phoenix-Mesa, Ariz.
56Buffalo-Niagara Falls, N.Y.
57Providence, R.I. - Fall River-Warwick, Mass.
58Columbia, S.C.
59Little Rock-North Little Rock, Ark.
60Omaha, Neb./Iowa
61Tulsa, Okla.
62Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, Ohio
63Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, Va./N.C.
64Syracuse, N.Y.
65Indianapolis
66New Haven-Meriden, Conn.
67Rochester, N.Y.
68Memphis, Tenn.
69Tucson, Ariz.
70Dayton-Springfield, Ohio
71Wichita, Kan.
72Mobile, Ala.
73Honolulu
74Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif.
75El Paso, Texas
76Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, N.J.
77Johnson City-Kingsport, Tenn. - Bristol, Va.
78Akron, Ohio
79Grand Rapids-Muskegon - Holland, Mich.
80Bergen-Passaic, N.J.
81Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, S.C.
82Springfield, Mass.
83Oklahoma City, Okla.
84Worcester, Mass.
85Stockton-Lodi, Calif.
86Louisville, Ky./Ind.
87Birmingham, Ala.
88Monmouth-Ocean, N.J.
89Augusta, Ga. - Aiken, S.C.
90Jersey City, N.J.
91Sarasota-Bradenton, Fla.
92Gary, Ind.
93Fort Wayne, Ind.
94Daytona Beach, Fla.
95Wilmington, Del.-Newark, Md.
96Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, Pa.
97Youngstown-Warren, Ohio
98Bakersfield, Calif.
99Scranton-Wilkes-Barre-Hazleton, Pa.
100McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas

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