EarthLink vs. City of Philadelphia
Philly officials say here that they plan to hold EarthLink to its contract. Alas, it looks like it won’t be as easy for EarthLink to pull out of this project as from some other ones.
From BusinessWeek, May 15, 2008
Riverside Residents Get Crash Course in Wi-Fi
AT&T officials on Monday taught the public how to get onto the citywide Wi-Fi network that the company is preparing to roll out in Riverside.
From Press-Enterprise, May 10, 2008
Delray Beach (FL) Kills Wi-Fi Firm Contract
City commissioners voted Tuesday to terminate a contract with a Tampa company after it failed to move forward on plans to create a citywide WiFi network.
From Palm Beach Post, May 08, 2008
Verizon Says They'll Stick To 700Mhz Conditions
The other day, Google issued a filing with the FCC saying that Verizon was planning to wiggle out of the conditions attached to their winning bid for 700Mhz spectrum.
From DSL Reports, May 08, 2008
Provo (UT) Sells iProvo for $40.6 million
iProvo, the city's troubled fiber-optic network, is being sold to Broadweave Networks.
From The Salt Lake Tribune, May 08, 2008
Broadband Over Power Line Is Dead
Despite the FCC calling it the "the great broadband hope," many people referred to it as "the great broadband joke.
From Tech Dirt, May 08, 2008
South Korea's Broadband Network Most Developed
South Korea's broadband network is the most developed in the world, a rank recently released by International Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) indicates.
From People's Daily Online, May 08, 2008
Wi-Fi Smart Meters from Corpus Christi to Anderson
From Corpus Christi, Texas to Anderson, Indiana, a number of cities across the United States are using Wi-Fi to deploy and manage smart meters for utilities including electric, water, and gas--and many more are in the pilot stage of similar deployments. While many utility companies use BPL (broadband over power line) for such deployments, Wi-Fi offers some unique advantages.
From Wi-Fi Planet, May 08, 2008
Smarter Electric Grid Could Be Key to Saving Power
This is the beginning of a new way of thinking about electricity, and the biggest change in how we get power since wires began veining the landscape a century ago.
From Wired Magazine, May 08, 2008
Cityywide Wireless IP Network Launched in New York
NYCWiN will run on 400 nodes across
five boroughs -- with many of the access
points perched on rooftops…Nineteen
city agencies developed about 53 unique
applications for the network.
From Government Technology, May 08, 2008
