To make it easier for state legislatures to pass anti-municipal broadband laws, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has a piece of anti-municipal broadband model legislation entitled the “Municipal Telecommunications Private Industry Safeguards Act”. You can view the document here (Word format). To make it easier for state legislatures to pass anti-municipal broadband laws, the [...]
Bill to restrict municipal broadband introduced in Ohio
Here we go again. Just when we thought the Grinch (or Scrooge) this Christmas would be the Pennsylvania state legislature and Governor Rendell for passing House Bill 30, it appears that a legislator in Ohio is competing for that much desired role. Here we go again. Just when we thought the Grinch (or Scrooge) this [...]
Will Wi-Fi suck revenue out of cellular?
Jesse Drucker writes in the Wall Street Journal (Cellular Carriers Face a Future When Wi-Fi Will Cut Into Revenue) that phone calls made over Wi-Fi networks pose a serious threat to mobile phone operators’ revenues: Each minute of wireless calling over Wi-Fi is a minute of calling not made over a cellular network. That has [...]
Wireless broadband: anti-poverty weapon
Matt Stone, Civitium’s Government Strategist, has just written a case study about how the People’s Emergency Center (PEC) wireless broadband network and training program are transforming a low-income community in Philadelphia. This case study is a must-read for everyone, especially municipal officials and state legislators, because it lays out a model that communities can adopt [...]
Atlanta unwired
Atlanta is finally going wireless. I say finally because I wrote about this project last April and it is making the rounds again like yesterday’s pizza, reheated. Here is a link to my April article and the link to the MSNBC story. What’s going on here? I hope the next article I write is one [...]
Wisconsin seeks vendors for state-wide Wi-Fi
Madison, Wisconsin will be providing wireless broadband service throughout the city, the airport and other municipalities in the area, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. The initiative “Wireless Wisconsin” plans to roll out wireless service not just in the city, but at the airport and in other municipalities in the county. The city, county and [...]
iProvo municipal broadband network goes live
iProvo, the fiber optic network owned by Provo (Utah), is live. The project faced heavy opposition from the incumbent operators, Qwest and Comcast, but in the end, the city got it done. The network cost approximately $39 million and is funded through bond issues.iProvo, the fiber optic network owned by Provo (Utah), is live. The [...]
Tight jeans break cellphones
Ever wonder what causes cellphones to die? Cellular-News reports that tight jeans were the No. 2 reason for cellular phone death in Sweden. This is bad news for a lot of people who gain weight during the holiday season. And if you thought that working out AFTER the holiday season won’t kill your phone, check [...]
Performance analysis of mesh architectures
Francis daCosta, bad boy of mesh, is back. Remember the lively debate he triggered last July on the scalability of mesh networks? This time he analyzes the relative performance of competing mesh architectures and shows why the three-radio system provides far better bandwidth distribution than other competing architectures. Naturally, his company, MeshDynamics, sells a three-radio [...]
Siemens 1 gigabit per second wireless link
Siemens has created a 1 Gbps wireless link (in the lab at least) and according to Glenn Fleishman, it appears to incorporate MIMO (multiple antennas for transmitting and receiving) and OFDM (the encoding used in 802.11a and 802.11g). Glenn points out that the company is looking to exploit this for cellular purposes and that it [...]
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