CenturyTel is looking to set up a public-access wireless internet network in Vail Village, a ski town in Colorado. But before the communications provider can do that, it must ensure that the 84 nodes – cylindrical metal objects nearly 3-feet tall and 1-foot in diameter – that it plans to intall must not spoil the improvements in Vail Village, as per the recommendation by the Vail town council members. Originally, CenturyTel wanted 18 of the nodes to be placed on Vail Villages’s $2,000-a-piece lampposts, a plan frowned upon by council members. Bob Stone of CenturyTel said that under the revised map to be submitted to Vail’s Design and Review Board for approval on August 1, the company will instead install the equipment on other city-owned property like bridges, restrooms, and parking facilities. CenturyTel expects the network to be operational by November. It has yet to determine the price of services but the firm expects it to “very competitive in the marketplace.”
Via [vaildaily.com]
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