The Muniwireless Second Anniversary Report is out and you can download it from here (PDF format).The Muniwireless Second Anniversary Report is out and you can download it from here (PDF format). The Report contains a list of municipalities around the world that have deployed or are about to deploy citywide wireless broadband networks. In addition [...]

The Muniwireless Second Anniversary Report is out and you can download it from here (PDF format).The Muniwireless Second Anniversary Report is out and you can download it from here (PDF format). The Report contains a list of municipalities around the world that have deployed or are about to deploy citywide wireless broadband networks. In addition [...]

It’s the battle of the broadband bills in Congress. First, there’s Pete Sessions anti-muni bill, followed by the McCain-Lautenberg pro-muni broadband bill and now comes . . . the Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act of 2005 introduced by Senator John Ensign (from Nevada), also known as the rewrite of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. [...]

Palo Alto voted to end its FTTH trial and to explore public-private partnerships, “despite pleas from customers of the service at the city council meeting last night. The FTTH service is revenue positive for the city and the customers will not be provided with an alternative to the 100 megabit service they currently enjoy for [...]

I am looking for ways to make my upcoming conference more interesting for those of you who are attending. So I have decided to post, starting this week, a series of articles written by people whom I have invited to speak at the Sept 28-29 Muniwireless Conference. The purpose is to introduce you to the [...]

Alpharetta, Georgia is looking for a wireless broadband engineering consultant to help them determine what they should do with a multi-use citywide wireless network. The consultant will assist the city in determining the optimum course of action for a multi-use wireless network through:Alpharetta, Georgia is looking for a wireless broadband engineering consultant to help them [...]

What We Want In network utopia, everyone will be connected across the digital divides of economics and geography. In network utopia, everyone will be connected with enough “bandwidth”‚Äö?Ñ?Æenough bits‚Äö?Ñ?Æthat there will no longer be any impediment to innovation. Reaching network utopia may be possible by looking at where the most bits are: radio spectrum. Although [...]

The Technology Working Group of the city of Fullerton in California has posted its final report on the citywide wireless broadband project for which it had issued an RFP last year. I recommend that you read this report thoroughly especially the appendices. It will give you a good idea of what cities today are faced [...]