Medford (pop. 70,000) has launched the first mobile city-wide mesh network in Oregon. It covers 24 square miles (62 square kilometers) and provides high-speed communications to city employees (police and fire departments, public works and building inspection agencies). Medford is the largest city in Southern Oregon and has approximately 150 police officers and 75 fire [...]

A new wireless broadband network that covers 600 square miles (1,554 square kilometers) of eastern Oregon is the envy of Portland’s community wireless activists, according to this interesting article from CNBC. A new wireless broadband network that covers 600 square miles (1,554 square kilometers) of eastern Oregon is the envy of Portland’s community wireless activists, [...]

A major win for proponents of wireless networks for developing nations! The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CWN) received a $200,000 grant from the Open Society Institute, funded by the Soros Foundation, to develop wireless technology to be used around the globe, with a focus on developing nations. Urbana-Champaign, Illinois will become the testing ground for [...]

The Miami Herald has a good article about small towns that act as utility companies, bringing broadband to their residents. The article points out that the development of broadband today mirrors that of electricity in the early 1900s when electric companies concentrated on bringing electricity to large cities and refused to expand service to rural [...]

Lafayette (Louisiana) has a city-wide wireless broadband network, thanks to Syndeo Communications Group, which specializes in bringing broadband to areas neglected by wireline broadband providers. The network covers 13 square miles (33 square kilometers) and uses Tropos Networks 5110 Wi-fi cells. Syndeo will provide high-speed (>1 Mbps) broadband to residents and businesses in Lafayette. If [...]

Niklas Zennstrom, founder of Skype, announced that they will be releasing a version of the software for PDAs. (source: ZDNet). Niklas Zennstrom, founder of Skype, announced that they will be releasing a version of the software for PDAs. (source: ZDNet). This is wonderful news! Until now, you had to make Skype calls from your desktop [...]