MuniWireless

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 was a textbook candidate for municipal wireless: Until the county lit up its wireless network in 2004, dial-up remained the prevailing Internet access method.

Today, most of the county…

If the New South Wales state government has its way, Sydney will have free Wi-Fi access in the central business district. And it’s not only downtown Sydney they’re talking about. Suburbs such as Parramatta, and other cities (Gosford, Newcastle) in New South Wales, will have free Wi-Fi access as well.If the New South Wales state government has its way, Sydney will have free Wi-Fi access in the central business district. And it’s not only downtown Sydney they’re talking about. Suburbs…

iPass reports a 111 percent increase in Wi-Fi sessions conducted over the iPass global virtual network between January and October 2006 (a “session” equates to one user logging into a given location one or more times during a single day. The average “session length” is calculated by dividing the total number of minutes spent connected by the total number of iPass reports a 111 percent increase in Wi-Fi sessions conducted over the iPass global virtual network between January and October…

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 Wireless Online is the service Corilyn Shropshire of the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette writes about her experience on the wireless network in downtown Pittsburgh: “Even though it’s…

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 for wireless access for student Alexandria, Virginia chose EarthLink as the winner of the bid to provide the city with a municipal wireless broadband network…

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: 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:

http://isen.com/blog/2006/11/breaching-cellcos-garden-wall.html