By Mike Perkowski This article appears in the Spring 2007 Issue of MuniWireless Magazine. Umatill County built a network for an application it doesn’t want to deploy…and now it uses it for everything else Umatilla County, Oregon, is home to a modest 80,000 residents spread over 3,200 square miles. The rural collection of 13 municipalities [...]

Corilyn Shropshire of the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette writes about her experience on the wireless network in downtown Pittsburgh: “Even though it’s only guaranteed to work outdoors, the new Wi-Fi service worked well at several indoor spots, the Post-Gazette found during a recent afternoon spent trying out the service. Of course, it did even better outdoors.” US [...]

Alexandria, Virginia chose EarthLink as the winner of the bid to provide the city with a municipal wireless broadband network that covers 16 square miles (41 square kilometers). The network is open to other service providers on a wholesale basis. The network will cost $4 million to build and EarthLink is spending another $9 million [...]

David Isenberg has written a blog post on the trends that spell doom for walled gardens: OpenMoko (open-source Linux-based mobile computing platform, the Apple iPhone (if it ever gets to market) and Wi-Fi enabled mobile phones. Read his post here:David Isenberg has written a blog post on the trends that spell doom for walled gardens: [...]

Just in time for ski season, Vail’s citywide Wi-Fi service is now available to about 95 percent of the community. Pricies: $9.99 for one day, $44.95 for a week, $59.95 for a month or $499.95 for a year. Winter and summer resort towns are excellent places to deploy wireless broadband networks because they encourage people [...]

Katie Fehrenbacher has posted a short piece on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors inquiry into whether Mayor Gavin Newsom’s plan for creating a citywide Wi-Fi network is the best one for SF. The mayor’s model is to have a private company (EarthLink) fund and build the network – a model followed by most US [...]