Municipalities should leave the task of building Wi-Fi networks in the private sector's hands, the co-founder of Qualcomm said Tuesday. "I don't think there's a ban required," Irwin Mark Jacobs, who recently retired as the company's CEO and now serves as its chairman, said during a luncheon speech here at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "But if I were voting in a municipality, I think I would not vote in favor of using tax funds to go ahead and compete with commercial services that are available and that are rapidly improving." Many municipalities are getting into the business "without realizing...