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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...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Municipal broadband, Government technology
- 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...
- Tags: Municipal broadband, Government technology
- 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...
- Tags: Municipal broadband, Government technology
- 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...
- Tags: Municipal broadband, International, Government technology
- 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...
- Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, Internet, cable, TV-Internet, TV
- 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...
- Tags: Government technology, Municipal broadband
- 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...
- Tags: Municipal broadband, State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- 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...
- Tags: Government technology, Municipal broadband
- 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...
- Tags: Government technology, Municipal broadband, Wi-Fi
- 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,...
- Tags: Government technology, Municipal broadband, network
- 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....
- Tags: Government technology, Municipal broadband, State &, Local Govt, network
- 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...
- Tags: Government technology, Municipal broadband, State &, Local Govt, broadband
- 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...
- Tags: HotSpot, 3G, Wi-Fi, International, Municipal broadband, Government technology
- 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...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, Tropos, WIFI Mesh, InspiAir
- 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...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, municipal Wi-Fi, patent, Wi-Fi
- 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...
- Tags: WIRELESS, Microsoft Corp., Wi-Fi, team, MetroFi, advertisement
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
Additional Resources
- Google-Yahoo to Washington: We're moving forward.
- I've been watching this battle for a couple of years now - this arm-wrestling match between the Washington suits and the Silicon Valley geeks to see which has more power. Tally one up for the geeks this week, who basically told Washington, "Yeah, you really don't matter." ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Washington, Yahoo! Inc., Government, Corporate Law, Vertical Industries, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Green Plug snags heavy hitter for board
- Who says green tech isn't rocket science? Starting Sept. 1, green tech start-up Green Plug, which is pushing for the concept of a universal power converter, has appointed former White House advisor George Keyworth as the chairman of its board of directors. Keyworth was Science Advisor to...
- Tags: Green Technology, White House, Board, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Empower your people
- It's the beginning of the year and I'm going out of my mind. Even though we've added my position of "Technology Director" and I don't have to teach anymore, we're still not exactly overstaffed on tech here in the district. I'm supposed to be handling curriculum and designing...
- Tags: SiS, E-mail, Workforce Management, Online Communications, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Comcast sets 250GB ceiling
- Now, it's official. Comcast will impose a 250GB monthly cap on its Internet customers, as the SF Chronicle reports. Violators will get a notice and a warning. If you do it twice in a six-month period, they may terminate your account. What's more, Comcast...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Corporate Communications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Marketing, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
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