iProvo is not taking the Reason Foundation’s attack on its effort lying down. This week,¬¨‚Ćthe municipal broadband¬¨‚Ćagency in Provo, Utah,¬¨‚Ćissued a 29-page counter-attack to the 26-page report, Spinning Its Wheels,¬¨‚Ćthat the foundation released last month. “Fatally flawed” and “poorly researched” were just two of ¬¨‚Ćthe descriptions iProvo applied to Spinning Its Wheels in its own¬¨‚Ćreport, [...]

Jeff Pulver says: Some will argue that Net Neutrality was never intended to apply to IPTV networks – that the IPTV network too closely resembles a cable network, and that the Bells should be free to cut exclusive or discriminatory deals with content channels . . . But, if the entire network becomes an “IPTV” [...]

More on Nortel’s enhancements to its Wi-Fi infrastructure. The telecom equipment is getting serioius about the muni market–and in a big way.More on Nortel’s enhancements to its Wi-Fi infrastructure. The telecom equipment is getting serioius about the muni market–and in a big way. Just this week, we reported on the company’s recent partnership with Accela¬¨‚Ćto [...]

Wi-Fi Networking News this week put coal in the stockings of munis with Wi-Fi projects plagued by delays: San Francisco, the state of Illinois which has temporarily backed off a plan for wireless Internet access at highway rest stops, and Oakland County, Michigan, which has bumped back its target date for completion to 2008.Wi-Fi Networking News this week put coal in the stockings of munis with [...]

Expect a growth spurt from Los Angeles’ free public wireless Internet service in 2007.Expect a growth spurt from Los Angeles’ free public wireless Internet service in 2007. Yesterday, the Board of Commissioners of the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles  (CRA/LA), the public agency charged with revitalizing the city’s downtown, announced $225,000 in contract [...]

Many people in Asia recently had the unpleasant experience of losing Internet and phone access because of the earthquake that damaged undersea cables. Telecom companies are still trying to repair the damage. We take a lot of things for granted — Internet access, Skype, email but all of these things need high-speed broadband access to [...]

There’s certainly been a lot of news about the deployment of mobile WiMAX solutions. Vendors are claiming that products certified for compliance with the 802.16e-2005 standard will be available in Q1 2007, and carriers, such as Clearwire and NextWave, plan to launch mobile WiMAX systems throughout 2007. These announcements make the situation look good for [...]