Wireless Silicon Valley Attracting Carmakers
A grand plan to equip Silicon Valley with wireless Internet access is much more than WiFi for the average laptop - private companies like those in the auto industry are lining up to be a part of the ground-breaking plan, San Carlos Assistant City Manager Brian Moura said yesterday.
From San Mateo Daily Journal, February 27, 2007
Pew Research: The World of Wireless Widens
Some 34% of internet users have logged onto the internet using a wireless connection either around the house, at their workplace, or some place else.
From Pew Research Center, February 26, 2007
Saskatchewan to Offer Free Wi-Fi Access
The Saskatchewan government announced Monday its plans to create what it called the country's largest wireless Internet network, which will allow the province's four largest cities' residents and visitors to access free-of-charge Wi-Fi in the downtown core and post-secondary institutions.
From Business.ca, February 26, 2007
Realizing Los Angeles Vision Won't Be Easy
In Los Angeles, the city's Department of Water and Power actually owns the streetlights and any company setting up a Wi-Fi system would have to pay the city for using any of the city's 220,000 streetlights.
From Los Angeles Business Journal, February 26, 2007
Wi-Fi Digs in on Cape Cod
The number of wireless Internet ''hot spots'' has skyrocketed across the Cape compared to just a few years ago. Orleans is the most wirelessly connected Cape community after launching an Unwired Village project last summer, a collaboration between the Orleans Chamber of Commerce and the council.
From Cape Cod Online, February 25, 2007
AT&T, Napa (CA) Ink Wi-Fi Agreement
The city of Napa this week approved an agreement with AT&T for an approximately 12-square- mile deployment of AT&T Metro Wi-Fi, the company's wireless broadband Internet access network solution.
From Telecommunications Magazine, February 23, 2007
Civitium's Richardson on San Francisco
The ongoing debate in San Francisco about how the City proceeds with its Wi-Fi initiative demonstrates - more than any similar initiative to date - how ideology plays a central role in the world of public broadband.
From WRAL, February 21, 2007
Naperville (IL) Homeowners Worry Wi-Fi
A homeowners advocacy group in Naperville that fought against cell towers in residential neighborhoods 10 years ago is taking aim at plans to offer free Wi-Fi access citywide.
From The Daily Herald, February 21, 2007
Houston Learning Lessons on Wi-Fi
"We're learning some lessons from what they went through," said Richard Lewis, the city's information technology director, who helped broker the deal with Atlanta-based EarthLink Municipal Networks.
From Houston Chronicle, February 21, 2007
Houston WiFi: Build It to Be Reliable
When the project is completed in about two years, Houston will have the largest citywide WiFi network in the country. That is, unless Los Angeles - where the mayor the next day announced a "me too!" initiative - beats us to it.
From Houston Chronicle, February 20, 2007
