MuniWireless

Competition in the French broadband market is at fever pitch. Free, a subsidiary of Iliad, is offering 100 Mbps broadband service to residents in Paris for 30 Euros per month. The price includes telephone service and IPTV (including high definition channels). Free, a subsidiary of Iliad, is offering 100 Mbps fiber broadband service to residents in Paris for 30 Euros per month. The price includes telephone service and IPTV (including high definition channels). The service will be available starting mid-September…

Analysis: What is the state of the muni wireless market? And what is the path forward? Plenty of readers asked us both questions following EarthLink’s decision to vastly scale back its own business operations. When a big, publicly held company changes direction, it certainly grabs your attention. Fortunately, there are multiple proven paths forward. And there are hundreds — perhaps thousands — of companies serving the municipal wireless ecosystem. So, what can you count on from MuniWireless.com in the days and…

The post-mortems on EarthLink’s resturing announcement are coming in and the good news for munis is that they’re hopeful, if not downright enthusiastic. The bad news comes to cities like San Francisco and Houston where the outlook on EarthLink partnerships looks dim. But is that so bad after all?by Carol Ellison

The post-mortems on EarthLink’s restructuring announcement are coming in and the good news for munis is that they’re hopeful, if not downright enthusiastic. The bad news comes to cities like…

In an interesting alignment of announcements, Chicago is putting its plans for a municipal wireless network on ice on the same day that EarthLink, one of its potential partners, announced 900 lay-offs, including the president of the company’s muni division.In an interesting alignment of announcements, Chicago is putting its plans for a municipal wireless network on ice on the same day that EarthLink, one of its potential partners, announced 900 lay-offs, including the president of the company’s muni division.

Coincidental? Probably…

Update and Analysis: Don Berryman, EarthLink’s top municipal wireless executive, is out of a job. So are 899 other EarthLink employees amid a massive company reorganization. The shake-up includes office closings in or near cities that EarthLink had been targeting for public broadband deployments. The upshot for municipal leaders: Our collective focus is moving from big, feel-good public access efforts to government applications that deliver real ROI. Update and Analysis: Don Berryman, EarthLink’s top municipal wireless executive, is out of…

The long anticipated changes at EarthLink have arrived. The company is eliminating 900 jobs. One of those is reportedly that of Donald B. Berryman, president of the company’s muni wireless unit.EarthLink announced it is eliminating jobs–one of those, according to a report in the Atlanta Constitution, is that of executive vice president and president of Municipal Networks, held by Donald B. Berryman.

I could get no confirmation on the Constitution’s report from EarthLink. When I tried to reach Berryman on his…