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- EarthLink pulls back on muni Wi-Fi
- Municipal Wi-Fi projects are being put on the back burner by EarthLink, a major contractor to local governments, reports Info World. After first quarter losses of about $30 million, Earthlink has decided to pull back from municipal Wi-Fi contracts and focus on more lucrative contracts in large cities. Earthlink...
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Is MuniFi cropping up a loser? Disappointing signups point to a shift in strategy
- Is "MuniFi" living up to the hopes city managers and the companies that build the networks have held out for them? Is the public flocking to take advantage of the networks, are they good enough to compete with cable and telco offerings? Do they improve economics? GigaOms Katie Fehrenbacher...
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Arlington picks EarthLink for Wi-Fi
- Arlington County, Va., has chosen EarthLink to build, own and operate a Wi-Fi broadband network to cover the suburban Washington county. EarthLink said the network will provide service for the 26 square-mile Arlington County area. The deal includes net access to several nonprofit partners of the county, as...
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- Mexico City to go wireless by 2008
- All of Mexico City will be one free, wireless Internet hotspot by 2008, Mayor Marcelo Ebrard announced, according to AFP. The project "will accelerate the technological development of the city," Ebrard said after signing a contract with the Chinese telecoms and networking giant ZTE. "Why connect 4,000 cameras...
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Internet over TV airwaves
- Internet, online and on the air Microsoft, Google, Dell, HP, Intel and Philips say they can deliver Internet over TV airwaves - and theyre pushing the FCC to give them the green light, says the Washington Post. The coalition has come up with a device that would...
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Doing Silicon Valley wireless right
- Government and technology leaders are engaged in a cutting edge experiment in building a massive wireless network across the entire Silicon Valley. Covering 1,500 square miles and serving 2.4 million people, the Joint Venture Wireless Project would be the largest public Wi-Fi network in the world. But how do...
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Houston wireless deal driven by business
- The needs of the Houston business community drove the city to craft a public-private Wi-Fi agreement with Earthlink, Richard Lewis, Houstons CIO, explained at the Muniwireless Dallas conference. Among the citys objective are to reduce government cost of mobile data devices, provide inexpensive broadband service to 700,000 low-income...
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- LA to go Wi-Fi
- Los Angeles will deploy a city-wide Wi-Fi network, likely to be the largest in the country, Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa announced on Tuesday, MuniWireless reports. "By giving every resident high-speed access, we will transform Los Angeles into a cutting-edge city across every neighborhood and every economic sector," Mayor Villaraigosa...
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Consultant: Gov apps, not public use, will pay Wi-Fi's way
- Writing on GigaOm, Katie Fehrenbacher writes that consultant Craig Settles has concluded that public use of municipal Wi-Fi networks are unlikely to pay the bills. Public workforce applications, he says, will be “muni networks’ big ROI generator.” “Public wireless access is good political sound-bite marketing, but the beef is...
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- Muni Wi-Fi can deliver speed, coverage if properly designed
- Weve heard a lot of anecdotal stories that municipal Wi-Fi networks are not living up to their billing, as users find the networks to be much slower than hoped and subject to weak coverage. But, compared to cell networks, theyre actually much faster and cover their areas almost as well,...
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- NJ counties expected to get OK to pursue wireless networks
- New Jersey lawmakers are pushing forward legislation that would authorize counties to build and operate wireless networks for public use, NorthJersey.com reports. A bill in the state Assembly was voted out of committee and is heading for a floor vote soon, said a spokesman for Assemply Speaker Joseph J....
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
- Task force calls for rural broadband initiative in TN
- In Tennessee, a state ranked 37th in broadband access, a broadband task force called on state leaders to act aggressively towards building out broadband for the rural parts of the state, The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports. After nearly a year of study and debate, a group of telecommunication...
- Blog posts 2007-01-09
- Who has the most hotspots?
- Who has the hottest spots in the world? The US has the most WiFi hotspots but the UK is more densely wireless, a thorough British study PDF of wireless connections around the world finds, according to Ars Technica. America leads the hotspot race with 26,000 access points, 25% of...
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- 'Inherent weaknesses' in WiFi mesh technology?
- There have been several reports that mesh-based citywide muni wireless installations are underwhelming residents. Writing on GigaOM, Katie Fehrenbacher writes that an Israeli wireless equipment company, InspiAir, says mesh technology is a big part of the problem. Is he just trying to sell InspiAir’s alternative WiFi software and...
- Blog posts 2006-11-22
- Muni Wi-Fi threatened by patent decision
- A federal judge rules last week that Australias science research agency holds a valid patent to key technologies two Wi-Fi standards, 802.11a and 802.11g, News.com reports. If the patent withstands appeals, the additional licensing fees could drive up costs of the equipment to the point where the municipal wireless movement...
- Blog posts 2006-11-21
- MetroFi, Microsoft team up for Portland's citywide Wi-Fi
- Microsoft and MetroFi announced they will get together to build a free wireless Internet service for Portland, OR. MetroFi will launch the service in Portlands tourist center, Pioneer Courthouse Square, by the end of the year and expand it to the rest of the city within two years, Forbes...
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
Additional Resources
- "Net neutrality" is stupid
- "Net neutrality" is stupidThe problem, mixing social with business.The problem here is Robin is trying to treat a massive business investment billions in captial investment as if its a socialized publicly owned utility which it is not.Other countries subsidise connectivity/ISPs because they believe having broadband everywhere is critical to their...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-16
- Alabama's Broadband Tide
- BROADBAND INITIATIVE â€" If you really want anywhere access to the Internet, you understand the value and you’ll pay for it. A DirecWay dish on an RV at Gulf State Park, on the so-called “Redneck Riviera,†at Orange Beach, Alabama. ORANGE BEACH, Ala. â€" No more...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- The summer that Muni Wi-Fi died
- Speaking of Tim Wu, the good professor has written an intriguing piece for Slate subtitled Why Municipal Wireless Networks Have Been Such a Flop. Wu says it's not that public wireless is a bad idea. Rather, cities have screwed up by refusing to treat Internet like a...
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- Phony choices in the net neutrality debate
- Phony choices in the net neutrality debateThe Internet has always had some level of intelligenceThe Internet has always had some level of intelligence. As the father of the Internet Robert Kahn says: "I'm against anything that bans intelligence inside the cloud". Even Vint Cerf tries to shy away...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-10
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