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		<title><![CDATA[Martin free wireless plan brings muni WiFi disaster back from the dead]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martin free wireless plan brings muni WiFi disaster back from the deadso many logic problems, so little timeFirst, the internet is free. Access to the internet costs. FCC didn't imagine each consumer paying up to $100 per month when they decided to go some route. Air waves are public property,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:06:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Martin free wireless plan brings muni WiFi disaster back from the dead]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, public spectrum, take 2. Or is it 3? After the infamous D-block auction meltdown, the FCC is set with a new plan to have the private sector deliver free Internet over the airwaves, Reuters reports.  And FCC chair Kevin Martin's plan includes another long-held fantasy of policymakers: a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:20:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lost]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final nail in the coffin of municipal Wi-Fi was hammered today as Earthlink pulled the plug on Philadelphia's wireless program, as the Wall Street Journal reports.    "This was about a business model that simply didn't work," said Rolla Huff, chief executive of the Atlanta-based Internet services...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 17:11:56 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The summer that Muni Wi-Fi died]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The summer that Muni Wi-Fi diedSelective reading.The failure of municipal wifi was in part the result of agreements in which private companies agreed to make the investment necessary and municipalities agreed to let them.  Mr. Wu calls the companies "underqualified".  The word "foolish" is an alternative.The reason more...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:50:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The summer that Muni Wi-Fi died]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3424]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:32:27 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Municipal wi-fi on the ropes]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Municipal wi-fi on the ropesWell...On the linkage of municipal wifi to sewers as technologies which deserve public endorsement, even expenditure:Open sewage running down the street is of greater concern than a laptop owner walking around without a wifi connection momentarily.Par for the courseOpen sewage in the street would be of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:35:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Municipal wi-fi on the ropes]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm constantly amazed at the places Glenn Fleishman's excellent articles turn up.  That latest, on the problems municipal wi-fi networks are facing is in The Economist the only newsweekly worth reading anymore.  I originally met Glenn when he interviewed me years ago for a article on Warchalking, of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 21:04:49 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EarthLink's woes put free muni Wi-Fi in peril]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[EarthLink's woes put free muni Wi-Fi in perilunlicensed Wi-Fi signals; no No NOContinuing with the message. In the USA every resident has a RIGHT to FREE UNIVERSAL WIRELESS BROADBAND ACCESS to Web 2.0. The air waives that will be used are the < 1Ghz band that is currently under utilized...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:39:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Muni Wi-Fi in trouble unless cities cough up some (big) bucks]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Muni Wi-Fi in trouble unless cities cough up some big bucksI predicted this from the startThis whole Muni WiFi thing was hyped beyond belief because many people thought they could "get something for nothing".  As I mentioned in previous talkbacks, someone has to pay for all the expenses that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:51:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Muni Wi-Fi in trouble unless cities cough up some (big) bucks]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3361]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Not that long ago, municipal Wi-Fi was the talk of the town, so to speak. These days the latest rendition of the information superhighway is getting a bumpy ride, or plenty of static choose your metaphor, as ISPs and telecoms are walking away from the business of partnering with local...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:28:39 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bill would forbid laws against muni Wi-Fi]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill would forbid laws against muni Wi-FiDisagree on principleState legislators should be allowed to do stupid things without Congressional interference, as long as they take responsibility for doing so.  Bills like this just keep the knuckleheads in office longer by allowing them to pass the buck.Why?What is the federal...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:34:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<link><![CDATA[http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3344]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[US Representatives Rick Boucher (R-Va.) and Fred Upton (R-Mich.) this week resurrected the Community Broadband Act of 2007 PDF. The measure to block state laws from preventing municipal Wi-Fi networks was part of last year\'s rewrite of the Telecommunications Act, which died in the Senate.\r\nArs Technica prognosticates that the bill...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:44:35 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The realities of municipal Wi-Fi]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The realities of municipal Wi-FiWireless Mesh Network Makes All Things PossibleMunicipal Wifi provides access to 21st century education.  Most would want to back up and substitute 'computer' for the phrase, 'municipal wifi'.  Wireless mesh network provides access to 21st century education.  Most would want to back up...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:53:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The realities of municipal Wi-Fi]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1150]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[While, in principle,Â I agree with my colleague,Â Chris Dawson (Why municipal Wi-Fi is an educational expense), the problems with this approach are huge -- and have nothing whatsoever to do with education.Â In the 1930's the rationale for providing ubiquitous radio, electrical, telephone, and water resources to everyone was motivated by the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:15:25 -0700</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why municipal WiFi is an educational expenseGreat idea, not practicalMUNI WiFi has been in operational for a couple of years in the City of Cerritos, but it's not free. Access fees are vary depending on how often the user needs to access the Internet ranging from hourly to monthly. Collaborating...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:10:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why municipal WiFi is an educational expense]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1147]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm not big on large government-funded projects, whether at the federal, state, or local levels.  In my experience, they just have a tendency to go awry.  Of course, I live outside of Boston.  Can you say Big Dig?  However, one area in which municipalities (or better...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:18:28 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is muni Wi-Fi dead? Microsoft is wondering]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is muni Wi-Fi dead? Microsoft is wonderingNot dead yetFrom the origional, "...European cities as are examples of successes. "The U.S. is very far behind Europe and cities there," she said. In one example, Vos said that Amsterdam is beginning to install sensors on large trash receptacles that can communicate over...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:03:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is muni Wi-Fi dead? Microsoft is wondering]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3207]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:39:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In defense of muni Wi-Fi]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3169]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 10:49:04 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Municipal Wi-Fi is still facing challenges]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1628]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A newly published Information Week article calls into question the short-to-mid-term market appeal of municipal Wi-Fi.Muni Wi-Fi built by such service providers as MetroFi- one of whose access points is pictured above.While not breaking formative new ground, the article notes that many of these  projects have been contracted in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 21:17:55 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/wifi.html"><![CDATA[WiFi]]></category>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/regulatory.html"><![CDATA[Regulatory]]></category>
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