Milwaukee is offering free wireless access in the Pere Marquette Park and Cathedral Square Park areas downtown. Like Long Beach’s Wi-Fi hotzone, this is an initiative of the city itself, not a band of citizen volunteers or businesses. Milwaukee is offering free wireless access in the Pere Marquette Park and Cathedral Square Park areas downtown. [...]

The UK Broadband Task Force has published a guide for public sector organizations that are seeking funding for broadband (including wireless) projects. The document is entited “Public Sector Funding for Broadband: A Guide” and the most recent version (May 2003) can be downloaded from Muniwireless or from the UK Broadband Task Force site. The UK [...]

The UK Broadband Task Force has just published a guide for public sector procurers and their advisers who are thinking of implementing wireless broadband networks. The document (dated 18 July 2003) is entitled “A Guide to Wireless Broadband for Public Sector Procurers”. The UK Broadband Task Force has just published a guide for public sector [...]

Scott Rafer, chairman of Wifinder, believes there is money to be made in Wi-Fi but not by charging people $10 an hour for access. Scott writes in VC Returns — Do They Exist in Wi-Fi?: Scott Rafer, chairman of Wifinder, believes there is money to be made in Wi-Fi but not by charging people $10 [...]

The French Telecommunications Regulation Authority (ART) has published today new rules regarding public and private use of WiFi networks in France: The French Telecommunications Regulation Authority (ART) has published today new rules regarding public and private use of WiFi networks in France: Private use: no authorization required Public use (only in the 2.4GHz band): Access [...]

St. Louis is setting up a free Wi-Fi network in its downtown area covering 42 blocks. The city’s partner in this project is a local company called O2Connect. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the hotzone will be complete by the end of July. The St. Louis project creates a huge hotzone in the city’s [...]

MIT using rooftop antennas to test how networks can self-organize: It sounds like a form of mesh, but obviously the protocols are less rigid. They’re recruiting volunteers across a map of Cambridge who want to mount an antenna on their roof and spend roughly $2 per month in electricity to get intermittent service during the [...]

According to Dailywireless.org, a new report conducted by the BroadGroup, a London-based consultancy, suggests that prices for European Wi-Fi access are the highest in the world. The report says that growth in hotspot deployment will increase across Europe by about 45% to the end of this year, across the companies surveyed. According to Dailywireless.org, a [...]