Kuala Lumpur Mandates WiFi for All Restaurants

Any guesses that the city officials who passed this have an ownership stake in (or kickbacks from) the few area telecom operators who can provide internet service?

I see they're upping the ante in the War Against the Poor [1].<p>By ensuring that all restaurants have higher operating expenses, they can see to it that prices stay high. And if <i>every</i> restaurant has to do it, then there's nowhere left for a poor person who doesn't even own a wifi device to go.<p>Bravo! Now we just need to wait until the poor starve.<p>&#60;/sarcasm&#62;<p>OK, I'm being hyperbolic, but the point remains that they're ensuring that prices will be higher than they otherwise would, and are taking away the consumer's ability to choose what attributes they want to pay money for.<p>[1] as opposed to the War on Poverty

Well this is interesting but unfortunately i see the information gap broadening here. In my country (India) most of the restaurant owners don't even know what WiFi or smartphone is let alone maintaining their online presence.