Colorado City Favors MobilePro Model
Longmont is partnering with MobilePro, a private company, to offer subscription-fee broadband-wireless service to residents and businesses. The city is forgoing the route some other cities have taken, in which wireless access is provided for free and paid for through revenue from advertising on users’ computer screens.
From Longmont Daily Times-Call, June 18, 2006
Civitium to Consult on Wireless Harlem RFP
Harlem has 225,000 residents, and a vast amount of outside interest, as it is one of the founding and present centers of African-American culture. There’s money waiting to be spent, clearly, on any efforts that can improve the quality of life, education, and financial status of the area’s residents.
From Wi-Fi Net News, June 15, 2006
Incumbent Telecoms Have Little to Fear
Strategy Analytics vice president of Applied Analytics, Tom Elliott, is the author of a new report called Municipal Broadband in the US: How Real a Threat to Incumbent Operators? The answer is to that question is, not much.
From Wi-Fi Planet, June 13, 2006
Telecom Execs Debate Broadband Perils
Patchy coverage. Cost management problems. Uneven levels of service. Why would any city want to try to manage its own high-speed network? A Canadian conference puts a spotlight on the issues.
From Business.ca, June 12, 2006
MobilePro Drops Sacramento Plans
Wireless broadband provider MobilePro Corp. said it is dropping out of a deal to build a Wi-Fi network in Sacramento. The Bethesda, Md.-based company had worked with city officials for more than a year to establish a wireless broadband network. But MobilePro pulled out of the agreement late last week, saying the city's plan to deliver free, ad-supported wireless high-speed access is not viable.
From RCR News, June 12, 2006
Meet EarthLink's Contract Lawyers
Morris, Manning & Martin LLP represented EarthLink in its effort to establish the first contracts with Philadelphia, New Orleans, Anaheim and other cities for implementation of city-wide wireless Internet broadband network services.
From PrimeZone, June 12, 2006
Chaska, Minnesota, a Learning Center
Chaska's network has had its share of woes--slow speeds, dead connections--sparking customer angst along the way. "It took about a year and a half before we felt we really had a good handle on the network," said Bradley Mayer, Chaska's former tech manager who's success there helped land him a job at EarthLink, an Atlanta-based firm that builds municipal Wi-Fi networks.
From TMCNet.com, June 11, 2006
Google Defends Mountain View Wi-Fi Network
Google's outreach blitz coincides with the impending launch of its first wireless Internet network. By July 1, beta testers will get their first crack at the Wi-Fi network Google's built in Mountain View, its hometown. The Mountain View network isn't expected to become available to the general public until later this year.
From eWeek blog, June 08, 2006
New Orleans Council OK's EarthLink
Cisco Systems, announced that the city of Farmers Branch, Texas, a first-ring suburb northwest of Dallas, selected the outdoor wireless "mesh" offering from Cisco and MobilePro Corp. MobilePro will act as the wireless Internet service provider for Farmers Branch and manage the city's mesh network, allowing the city to offer Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) 802.11 b/g connectivity to consumer, academic, commercial and government users.
From Broadband Wireless Exchange, June 06, 2006
Free Wi-Fi Expanding in Portsmouth (NH)
The Economic Development Commission voted to recommend expansion of the free Wi-Fi Internet access cloud to one approximately 15 times larger than what is currently offered.
From Seacoastonline.com, June 06, 2006
