The city-sponsored nonprofit that will run Mayor Street’s efforts to bring wireless Internet access to all 135 square miles of Philadelphia is set today to finally announce details of its contract with the Atlanta firm that will build the network. Via [philly.com]… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Municipal
Dawn Of The Wireless Utopias
For $12 a month, a Taipei resident can tote a laptop computer to the park and watch cable television. Via [msnbc.msn.com]… Continue Reading
S.F. Releases Proposals For Citywide Wireless Internet Access
Six proposals, six very different ways to provide a city-wide wireless Internet network for San Francisco. Via [mercurynews.com]… Continue Reading
Security Fears Over London’s Blanket Wi-Fi
McAfee has claimed that a plan to cover London’s Square Mile with Wi-Fi could put corporate data at risk, but The Cloud insists it is using the best security around. Via [news.zdnet.co.uk]… Continue Reading
Google, EarthLink Submit S.F. Wi-Fi Plan
Google and EarthLink have teamed up to submit a proposal to create a city-wide wireless Internet network for San Francisco, officials said Tuesday. Via [mercurynews.com]… Continue Reading
Square Mile Gains Wi-Fi Everywhere
The prospect of wireless LAN ubiquity in the UK has moved a step closer with the announcement that the City of London will within six months be saturated with Wi-Fi connections. Via [computing.co.uk]… Continue Reading
Bath To Become UK’s First Wireless City
An experiment by Bath & North East Somerset Council and the University of Bath will see the city flooded with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other radio technologies to assess future applications for residents and tourists. Via [vnunet.com]… Continue Reading
MetroFi’s Free Wi-Fi Is A Pretty Good Deal
My friends Chuck and Penny, who live down the street from me in Cupertino, have won the free WiFi lottery. Via [mercurynews.com]… Continue Reading
The City Of London To Get Wi-Fi
The City of London Corporation has announced plans to install a dense and comprehensive Wi-Fi internet network throughout London’s Square Mile in partnership with The Cloud, Europe’s largest Wi-Fi network, which will install and manage the project. Via [news.tmcnet.com]… Continue Reading
Big Players ‘Extremely Interested’ In Boston Wi-Fi
A report says Earthlink, Google, and HP are ‘extremely interested’ in partnering with Boston city officials to build a municipal Wi-Fi network. Via [informationweek.com]… Continue Reading
Chicago Gears Up For Citywide Wi-Fi, Joining Nationwide Push
The nationwide rush to go wireless appears poised to extend to its biggest city yet. Via [mercurynews.com]… Continue Reading
Don’t Tax Municipal Wi-Fi
President Bush has established the important goal of achieving universal broadband availability for all Americans by 2007. Yet, in a little-noticed portion of its budget, the Administration urges Congress to enact a new tax, euphemistically described as a “user fee” on unauctioned spectrum licenses that give holders the right to transmit radio signals. It is… Continue Reading
Big Apple Wi-Fi… When?
Beleaguered proponents of a citywide Wi-Fi network in New York City are desperately trying to make a meal of the thin crust Mayor Michael Bloomberg threw them recently when he reversed his previous position and supported the formation of a task force to look into the idea. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]… Continue Reading
Telecom Industry Attacks City-run Wi-Fi
Partners in the nation’s largest city-run wireless Internet service said Tuesday that they are helping residents. But a telephone-industry official urged Congress to bar such projects, saying they compete unfairly with private companies and stifle innovation. Via [seattlepi.nwsource.com]… Continue Reading
City Wi-Fi Sounds Great, If It Can Really Connect
Signal strength, capacity, and efforts by telecom vendors to stop cheap municipal wireless could threaten deployments from San Francisco to Chicago. Via [informationweek.com]… Continue Reading