Boston's Disruptive Path to Wireless
Boston's wireless task force, which studied other community wireless plans and issued a report July 31, predicts Boston's network will be running within two years, using Wi-Fi technology like that found in many homes, airports and coffee shops.
From Newfactor.com, August 14, 2006
WiFi-CityWide, InfiNet, Lockheed at Riverside
WiFi-CityWide, InfiNet Wireless and Lockheed Martin have formed a partnership with support from Charter Business to build a pilot municipal Wi-Fi and public safety network in support of their bid to the city of Riverside, Calif.
From Government Technlogy, August 08, 2006
Portland's Wi-Fi Gets Tangled Start
State utility rules are holding up construction of the network by complicating talks between Portland General Electric and the city's wireless contractor, MetroFi Inc., as they negotiate power rates for Wi-Fi antennas.
From The Oregonian, August 07, 2006
Springfield, Mass., Wants Citywide Wi-Fi
Springfield officials, seeking to make it easier for businesses and residents to tap into the Internet, launched a $30,000 three-month study Monday to determine how Springfield could best provide a citywide wireless system.
From The Boston Globe, August 07, 2006
So. Cal. Edison Foot-Drags on Pole Rights
As cities across the nation roll out their own wireless Internet networks, some Southern California communities are hitting an unexpected bottleneck: Southern California Edison Co. The state's second-largest power utility owns many of the residential street lights that cities need to form the backbone of their networks. But Edison acknowledges that it has yet to act on year-old requests for access to its poles and electricity. That has left cities waiting for a signal.
From Los Angeles Times, August 01, 2006
All Wireless is Local: Boston's Hands-On Plans
Boston will tap a nonprofit corporation to blanket the city with "open access" wireless Internet connections. The plan, which envisions raising $16 million to $20 million from local businesses and foundations, is a striking departure from the business models used by other cities, including Philadelphia and San Francisco, which have turned over responsibility for their wireless data networks to outside companies such as Earthlink Inc. and Google Inc.
From The Boston Globe, July 31, 2006
The Phone Companies Still Don't Get It
The telcos' instinctual response has also been to fight new technologies rather than foster them. That's what happened in the skirmish over "municipal WiFi" -- the effort by cities such as San Francisco and Philadelphia to offer citywide wireless services that AT&T and Verizon fought (a struggle Verizon has largely abandoned but AT&T is still pursuing).
From BusinessWeek, July 31, 2006
Long Island Wi-Fi to Cover 1,200 Square Miles
Companies such as EarthLink - the Internet service provider building Philadelphia's municipal wireless network - and incumbent broadband providers Cablevision and Verizon will surely weigh in. Vendors have until Aug. 30 to reply to a request for expressions of interest, information and comments issued by Suffolk County on behalf of itself and Nassau County.
From Long Island Business News, July 28, 2006
Week in Review: Intel's 'Revolutionary Leap'
Intel celebrated a major milestone this week, officially closing the books on the Pentium era with its launch of the Core 2 Duo, the company's most important product to come out in 13 years.
From CNET News, July 28, 2006
Let Loose the Dogs of (Broadband) War
The outbreak of "broadband wars" in the UK - as big hitters such as Carphone Warehouse, Orange and BSkyB compete to offer us cheap or "free" internet access - is bound to boost this vital area of the economy. It will even help to fulfil one of the prime minister Tony Blair's long-forgotten promises (to the Labour Party Conference in 2004) to bring broadband technology "to every home in Britain that wants it by 2008".
From The Guardian, July 27, 2006
