MuniWireless

Perth, Australia (pop. 1.3 million) will soon have a large Wi-Fi hotzone in its downtown area, thanks to Metromesh, a local wireless ISP. Metromesh will be targeting business users with their wireless broadband service (with VPN and VOIP options). They are offering bandwidth between 256K and 2MB. The customer can select which connection speeds he or she wants, with prepaid Perth, Australia (pop. 1.3 million) will soon have a large Wi-Fi hotzone in its downtown area, thanks to Metromesh, a local wireless ISP. Metromesh will be targeting business users with their wireless broadband service (with VPN and VOIP options). They are offering bandwidth between 256K and 2MB. The customer can select which connection speeds he or she wants, with prepaid downloads charged at 10c per MB, no connection fee. Metromesh expects to get 500 subscribers in Year 1, many of which will be corporate users (with a single login).

Initially, the network will cover 3.5 square kilometers, but by the end of the year, Metromesh expects to cover 15 square kilometers (80% of the downtown area).

Metromesh is licensing RoamAD’s software (both the server software management platform and the node software). Metromesh is in charge of its own equipment and have built multi-radio network nodes in accordance with the RoamAD hardware reference design. The low-cost nodes are assembled from commodity hardware parts that Metromesh acquired from third-party component vendors.

Metromesh is also using back office/billing software - the Jet Enterprise ISP billing engine - from a local company, Obsidian, with minor modifications for tighter integration with RoamAD roaming software.

Metromesh does not have plans yet to roll out networks in other cities.

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To find out more about RoamAD, please visit the RoamAD Company Profile page on Muniwireless.com.