The City of Decatur is looking for an Internet Service Provider (ISP) that will provide customer acquisition services as well as operate and maintain a wireless network that will serve educational, residential, commercial, municipal and public safety customers within the city’s boundaries.The City of Decatur is looking for an Internet Service Provider (ISP) that will [...]

Dirk van der Woude of Citynet (the Amsterdam FTTH project) wants to point out errors in the previous article on the opening up of cable networks in the Netherlands. Dirk says that the article missed three significant points:Dirk van der Woude of Citynet (the Amsterdam FTTH project) wants to point out errors in the previous [...]

Market Growing Faster Than Previously Projected; 2007 Spending To Hit $460 Million, According to MuniWireless.com Annual State of the Market ReportMarket Growing Faster Than Previously Projected; 2007 Spending To Hit $460 Million, According to MuniWireless.com Annual State of the Market Report More than $3 billion will be spent over the next four years to build [...]

The cover story in the Technology Report of the Wall Street Journal (23 October 2006) is called “Civic Lessons”, a piece about the hurdles that cities and service providers face in deploying municipal wireless broadband networks:The cover story in the Technology Report of the Wall Street Journal (23 October 2006) is called “Civic Lessons“, a [...]

The CUWiN Foundation is pleased to announce the completion of the initial port of its flagship software to the Meraki Mini. Porting CUWiN’s software to the Meraki Mini makes using CUWiNware even cheaper by dropping the price of CUWiNware wireless nodes from a few hundred dollars to $49. These nodes are perfect for wirelessing apartment [...]

Willie Cade, CEO of Computers for Schools in Chicago (www.PCsforschools.org) posted these notes on yesterday’s session on Community Benefits Agreements (CBA).Willie Cade, CEO of Computers for Schools in Chicago (www.PCsforschools.org) posted these notes on yesterday’s session on Community Benefits Agreements (CBA). (1) Public Ownership doesn’t necessarily assure Digital Inclusion (DI) activity or success. (2) DI [...]

Becca Vargo Daggett of the Minneapolis-based Institute for Local Self-Reliance has posted some notes from today’s session on partnerships.Becca Vargo Daggett of the Minneapolis-based Institute for Local Self-Reliance has posted some notes from today’s session on partnerships. How do you create partnerships for sustainable digital inclusion efforts? Make the network a platform for multiple services. [...]