Comments on: Long Island: Big project, small integrator

By: Sam Heys

Sam Heys — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:21:08 +0000

Sounds like they are working from the ground up. No pie in the sky promises with hefty price tags or being shafted by vendor lock-ins.

By: Lazaro Sanchez

Lazaro Sanchez — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:30:43 +0000

Who in this new and exciting industry segment we all call “muniwireless” isn’t new? Who isn’t a small to mid size company? Earthlink, MetroFi? That’s right…two companies struggling to make the projected numbers because “FREE” got everyones head clogged with Monopoly Ad Money and dreams of FREE wifi Utopia.

Friends, peers, get real. Over 300 projects and a small tiny handful of small companies to do most of them. IBM and HP have DeeeeeeeeP pockets yes; but they do not have a product or a business plan that does not rape and pillage municipalities, and then the put in TROPOS or CISCO. hehehehe

You guys are professionals, not paid for puppets of the aforementioned Big Players. We are all in this together,quit beating up the little guy! NO ONE new who MetroFi was a few years ago, no one.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:52:33 +0000

It’s really easy to give a nice song and dance, and take grant money.

Proof will be in the pudding.

By: Patrick Hensley

Patrick Hensley — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:19:15 +0000

This is the largest urban Wi-Fi project in the US and they’ve chosen a company nobody’s heard about. e-Path says they have done a small project in Delray, Florida. Give me a break! Delray is 16 square miles and has a population of 65,000 people. Unbelievable. Weren’t EarthLink and MetroFi among the bidders? On the other hand, given their new “business model”, they probably would have pulled out because Suffolk and Nassau counties were not going to pay them any money or promise anchor tenancy.