12/06/2007
1.Pinal County (AZ) Preparing for a Regional WiFi Network
The Pinal County (AZ) Regional WiFi Partnership Committee is seeking additional key partners, contributions and funding to have a "for fee" High Speed Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) network put in place to support its public safety efforts, support the community, and the development of existing and emerging private business enterprises.
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2.San Francisco Continues Fiber-to-Premises Study
San Francisco seeks a vendor to a perfrom a Phase II assessment of community fiber to the premises for public and government use. The tasks include estimating residental and business demand for the next 20 years, surveying residences and businesses, meeting with focus groups, and providing on-going advice. A bidders conference is scheduled for December 12, 2007.
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3.Florida Wireless Internet for Interstate Travelers
 The Contractor shall design, procure, install, test, commission, operate and maintain a public wireless Internet access system, referred to below as the System. The Department will own the hardware and software associated with this system. Upon commissioning the System, the Contractor shall operate and maintain the System, for the Department, for a period of one year.
 
The System shall provide public wireless Internet access at 5 fixed locations and one mobile location. The System shall provide Wi-Fi access to travelers at designated welcome centers and service plazas along Florida?s Interstate Highway and Turnpike systems. Travelers will utilize their own wireless-enabled devices, such as laptop computers, cell phones, and personal digital assistants (PDA), to access the System.

The Contractor shall propose a system that includes a charge to travelers for internet access. The Contractor will be required to share the revenue with the Department in accordance with a payment plan proposed by the Contractor.
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4.Houston (TX) to Create 10 Wireless Hotspots
City officials are planning to use part of the $5 million penalty fee that EarthLink paid in September to finance a "digital inclusion" program intended to help students and the elderly in low-income neighborhoods access the Internet.  Under plans being drawn up by the city, $3.5 million of that penalty fee would go toward creating free, WiFi hotspots in 10 neighborhoods and helping residents there acquire equipment and training to use the Internet, said Richard Lewis, the city's director of information technology. Those neighborhoods have not been chosen, he said, but the first should see access nodes by March. He said he hoped corporations will come forward with money or equipment to supplement city funds. The remaining $1.5 million will go toward other city wireless projects, including public safety.
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