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- Net neutrality debate re-ignites
- The recent blocking of BitTorrent by Comcast has re-ignited the network neutrality debate. Rep. Rick Boucher has called Comcast on the carpet, but AT&T has responded forcefully. They not only deny the need for network neutrality, they call it a positive harm, adding there is no...
- Tags: phone, network, comcast corp., duopoly, net neutrality, muniwireless, telecom & utilities, wi-fi, networking, wireless, dana blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- 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
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- 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
- 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
- EarthLink hooks Atlanta up to citywide Wi-Fi
- EarthLink hooks Atlanta up to citywide Wi-FiEarthlink Seems DirtyI can’t believe the pettiness and the dirtiness in the muni wireless world!I was going to attend the MuniWireless conference in Dallas next week, but now I am not - because I wanted to explore possibilities for an app I am...
- Tags: wireless lans, wireless, earthlink inc., greg meffert, wi-fi
- Discussion threads 2007-03-02
- Boston Wi-Fi: We can build this ourselves
- From the state that kicked Microsoft off of government computers, comes a Wi-Fi plan that puts the "public" in "public broadband." Boston plans to cover the compact colonial city with Wi-Fi, not by partnering with a corporate partner but by setting up an independent nonprofit to manage the project, the...
- Tags: wireless
- Blog posts 2006-07-31
- Build Silicon Valley-wide Wi-Fi? What, are you nuts?
- Build Silicon Valley-wide Wi-Fi? What, are you nuts?WI-MAXI'd say [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMAX]WI-MAX[/url] would better server wide areas of coverage.You need to read the RFP, not the PRThe RFP doesn't call for Wi-Fi. It calls for interesting proposals in which wireless data networking would be used to blanket the area. There are a...
- Tags: wireless lans, wi-fi, wimax, client side adapter, adapter, rfp, ieee, wireless
- Discussion threads 2006-07-02
- New Orleans taps Earthlink to provide Wi-Fi net
- New Orleans has chosen Earthlink to build a citywide wireless network. According to MuniWireless, EarthLink will provide free Internet access at speeds up to 300 Kbps and paid service if the user wants more bandwidth. EarthLink will be using Tropos mesh nodes and Motorola Canopy for this project....
- Tags: network, earthlink inc.
- Blog posts 2006-05-26
- You get muni broadband by demanding it
- At the Freedom2Connect conference this morning there was a long panel about municipal broadband builds, and general agreement on how to get faster connections than the phone-cable duopoly will provide.Demand it.It is user demands for a faster, open Internet that has gotten Tropos 300 municipal customers in two years, with...
- Tags: ron sege, tropos
- Blog posts 2006-04-04
- MuniWireless Atlanta starts March 7
- MuniWireless 2006 Atlanta - a conference and tradeshow focused on municipal wireless networks - takes place March 6 and 7. Speakers include Atlanta CIO Abe Kani, leading muni wireless lawyer Jim Baller, Harold Feld of the free speech advocacy group Media Access Project, and consultants Civitium and MRI. It's organized...
- Tags: wireless
- Blog posts 2006-02-28
- Senator: Keep U.N. away from the Internet
- Senator: Keep U.N. away from the InternetMessage has been deleted.Yes The Internet Should Not Be Managed by the UN, and Neither by the US!For a president that was preaching smaller government, etc he sure is doing the complete opposite. The ICANN was doing fine, UNTIL the current administration could...
- Tags: internet service providers (isps), government, internet, icann, domain, cuba, indy
- Discussion threads 2005-10-18
- Muni wireless a $700 million business
- What's the size of the municipal wireless market? Esme Vos, who runs the great MuniWireless site, has released a study that project U.S. cities, towns and counties will spend nearly $700 million over the next three years. The market will enjoy a compound annual growth rate of 134 percent...
- Tags: wireless, municipality, municipal wireless
- Blog posts 2005-09-28
- OneCleveland the model for citywide broadband
- Lev Gonick, VP of information technology at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland and a major force in OneCleveland (part of Intel's Digital Communities), has a prerelease excerpt from a major report from the Haas Charitable Trust, "Broadband Community Networks: Building the Digital Commons," which features the OneCleveland...
- Tags: onecleveland, broadband
- Blog posts 2005-08-23
- Cities join Intel's Wi-Fi program
- Cities join Intel's Wi-Fi programCentrino zones !!!I hear that TURDion laptops are not able to connect - not compatible with 802.11C Centrino !Me thinks the Telco's are in trouble...Hmmm, wireless everywhere, why do I need a POTS line???Greatest thing since sliced bread? Think again.Ones initial reaction to free(?) or...
- Tags: telecom & utilities, telecommunications, wireless lans, wireless, telecommunications company, wi-fi, intel corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-08-18
- Rewrite of Telecom Act introduced, addresses muni Wi-Fi
- Esme Vos of MuniWireless.com has perspective on the Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act of 2005, essentially a rewrite of the current law, the Telecommunications Act of 1996, introduced on July 27 by Sen. John Ensigh (R-Nevada). The bill directly deals with local governments' ability to deploy municipal wireless. Here...
- Tags: here is esme, government, local government
- Blog posts 2005-07-29
- Rural cities roll out muni WiFi
- A study conducted by muniwireless.com in March 2005 found that 29 American cities have citywide public access and another 13 have hotzones within the city limits. Twenty-three cities have municipal or public safety WiFi networks and New York and Chicago are planning WiFi networks for government use. The cities...
- Tags: tempe ariz.
- Blog posts 2005-07-27
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