Sahuarita, Arizona will be issuing a bid seeking proposals from vendors for the deployment of a municipal Wi-Fi network over the town’s 15 square miles. The network will be used for public access and municipal purposes (police, fire and other departments). This article in the Arizona Daily Star has more details, including a short interview [...]

Charleston, South Carolina’s Wi-Fi network is finally going live, although according to this article in The State.com, only 20 to 30 percent of residents will get access in the first phase. There will be a free and paid component: free gets you only 256 Kbps (which is next to useless) so if you want more, [...]

We all know about the New Millenium Research Council (NMRC), which has appeared on many posts here and on Glenn Fleishman’s site as a telco sockpuppet. But what about Consumers for Cable Choice? Sounds lovely doesn’t it? Consumers, choice — must be a true independent consumer organization.We all know about the New Millenium Research Council [...]

Glenn Fleishman has posted a short piece on two patent applications filed by Google: one for reduced-rate Wi-Fi access and another that would change a browser’s appearance to be branded with the hot, so I am curious to find out if they will get approved. Comments anyone?Glenn Fleishman has posted a short piece on two [...]

I urge everyone to read the Baller Herbst white paper on municipal fiber to the user (FTTU) projects. I am a big supporter of high bandwidth networks and continue to urge people to build out infrastructure for bandwidth-hungry applications.I urge everyone to read the Baller Herbst white paper on municipal fiber to the user (FTTU) [...]

Thanks to Sascha Meinrath for posting a PDF that shows the North American Internet backbone. Go to Sascha’s site to download the document. When you open the PDF file, you will see colors that represent the router’s registered owner: yellow (Qwest), blue (AT&T), red (Verizon), green (Level 3, Sprint), black (cable companies), gray (others such [...]

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent article on France’s broadband “miracle”. France used to lag in broadband penetration and had very expensive Internet access, strangled by a state-owned monopoly, but now it enjoys some of the lowest prices for broadband access (coupled with lots of bandwidth, VOIP and IP TV) and a murderously competitive [...]

SF Metro Connect, a collaboration of SeaKay, Cisco Systems and IBM, announced today that they are launching a national program of municipal wireless networks based upon a model of state of the art wireless technology deployed toward the goals of digital inclusion and community benefit.SF Metro Connect, a collaboration of SeaKay, Cisco Systems and IBM, [...]