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- SF Wi-Fi slows down as EarthLink changes its muni biz plan
- EarthLink's once-bold plans to build out municipal wireless networks is on hold as new CEO Rolla Huff said the old business model simply doesn't work. "Until we're confident that we can build new networks and get an acceptable return, we will delay any further new buildouts," Huff said on a...
- Tags: Municipal broadband
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Bill would prevent states from blocking local Wi-Fi networks
- As the battle between open access and corporate control rages on in a number of contexts (net neutrality, long-distance spectrum) U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., has introduced a bill to keep states from putting up barriers to public broadband networks, reports Top Tech NewsBoucher says the Internet is not a...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Municipal broadband
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- London's 'free' Wi-Fi flips the switch, but you might want to upgrade
- If you take a walk along the Thames these days, you can bring your laptop or iPhone with you and tap into London's new free Wi-Fi, ZDNet UK reports. Currently there are 13 miles of Wi-Fi along the Thames through central London, to be expanded to 22 miles in August.But...
- Tags: Municipal broadband, International
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Is muni Wi-Fi dead? Microsoft is wondering
- At the Muni Wireless 2007 conference in New England recently, Microsoft officials commented on the future of Wi-Fi, and it looks a bit bleak, reports Computerworld."We're finding that there are real end-user problems," said Stefan Weitz, director of planning for MSN at Microsoft. "That's the bad news. However, there's still...
- Tags: Municipal broadband
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- In defense of muni Wi-Fi
- Esme Vos wrote a long post today taking apart an AP story that says Lompoc, CA, has wasted taxpayer money on a Wi-Fi networks no one wants.The AP article could have used some fact checking. It states: Most communities, including Lompoc, paid for their projects. Elsewhere, private companies agreed to...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Municipal broadband
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- AP: Cities losing millions on Wi-Fi
- In a sad tale of dashed hopes, many cities across the country are struggling to pay back loans on wireless infrastructure that never materialized, reports the Associated Press.A typical story is that of Lompoc, CA, which poured $3 million into a system that less than 4,000 people signed up...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Municipal broadband
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Hearings on broadband data suggest Congressional push for national strategy
- Care to compare US broadband speeds to the rest of the world? Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) did yesterday, in hearings on how the FCC measures availability. The US lags in speed, availability and value, Markey said and charged that the FCC "has not kept pace with the times or the...
- Tags: Congress, Municipal broadband, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- 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
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