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With Starbuck's announcing free Wi-Fi service in its cafes and the FON and Meraki low-cost business models gaining increasing attention, "View from Europe" blogger Robert Horvitz takes us to a land where free or low-cost hotspot access has been a market reality for years. For years, Estonia's broadband-wireless evangelist Veljo Haamer has watched the in's and out's of ubiquitous Wi-Fi access and how this has shaped an increasingly competitive landscape for service providers. Can all these models and technologies get along? More
Broadband-Wireless Business Opportunities
 South Carolina Grants to Three Counties for Wireless Study
Pickens, Anderson, and Oconee Counties have received a $60,000 grant from the state Department of Commerce to study the development of Wi-Fi in the area. The Wi-Fi grant will fund a study to determine what type of infrastructure would be needed for wireless Internet, where it would need to be located and the cost of establishing a wireless connection throughout the three counties. More
Weekly Roundup of Headlines
» Duke University Plans Record 802.11n Deployment
» Minneapolis Wi-Fi Finish Expected on March 11
» Michigan Counties Ponder Broadband Cooperative
» Wi-Fi as the New Toaster? Trending Toward Free
» Sprint, Clearwire To Reforge WiMax Pact
» Ireland May Require FTTH in Buildings
» US Broadband Access by Demographic Groups
» USDA Invites Loan, Grant Applicants for Programs
» Patrick Pushes $25 Million Broadband Internet Access Bill
» Get Ready for a Crackdown on Broadband Use
» Broadband Still a Local Concern
» Revisiting, Reassessing Wireless Philadelphia
» Comcast Defends Role As Internet Traffic Cop
» Rep. Ed Markey's Internet Freedom Preservation Act
» Chicago Transit Deploys Wi-Fi Mesh Network
» Free Wi-Fi in the Brew for Starbucks
» China to Overtake U.S. as World's Largest Net Nation
Published electronically every Thursday, the W2i Government Broadband Wireless Report (The W2i Report) explores the issues surrounding the planning and implementation of broadband-wireless infrastructures, applications and services for cities, communities and regions. The W2i Report features commentaries and interviews with CIOs, wireless field practitioners, industry experts, and local-government association leaders, as well as a dozen independent bloggers. It includes data bases on leading case studies, business opportunities (RFPs) and headlines. All broadband-wireless stakeholders — from local-government officials and IT managers to the ecosystem of equipment and application vendors and systems integrators — are encouraged to subscribe.
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