MuniWireless

The city of Paris is now offering free Wi-Fi service in over 225 public areas such as parks and libraries. Mayor Bertrand Delano?¬¥ launched the service today. France Telecom is suing the city, claiming that it is unfair competition. France Telecom lost out to SFR in the public tender for the project. The city of Paris is now offering free Wi-Fi service in over 225 public areas such as parks and libraries. Mayor Bertrand Delano?¬¥ launched the service today. France…

Now that the heady notion of free Wi-Fi is disappearing from municipal agendas, the merits of publicly owned fiber networks are bubbling back onto them. St. Paul, Minnesota, is taking steps to put fiber in its future. But Utah, where two ambitious fiber projects are already underway, believers in muni broadband are fighting to preserve the massive investment the state has already made.Now that the heady notion of free Wi-Fi is disappearing from municipal agendas, the merits of publicly owned…

The Cloud, a wireless provider in the UK, is offering iPod Touch users Wi-Fi access for ¬¨¬£3.99 per month, with no minimum term. The announcement comes only a couple of weeks after Apple announced a partnership with The Cloud for iPhone users. The Cloud, a wireless provider in the UK, is offering iPod Touch users Wi-Fi access for ¬¨¬£3.99 per month, with no minimum term. The announcement comes only a couple of weeks after Apple announced a partnership with The…

Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School and co-author of Who Controls the Internet? has written an analysis for Slate that should be required reading in communities everywhere. The reason behind recent failures in municipal Wi-Fi, he writes, “is that cities haven’t thought of the Internet as a form of public infrastructure that‚Äö?Ñ?Ælike subway lines, sewers, or roads‚Äö?Ñ?Æmust be paid for. Instead, cities have labored under the illusion that, somehow, everything could be built easily and for free by…

The New America Foundation is holding a one-day event in Washington DC on October 2, 2007: Driving Wireless Broadband and Innovation (How Opening Up Unused “White Spaces” on the Airwaves Will Drive Wireless Innovation). The focus will be on how emerging technologies can open up spectrum white spaces to unlicensed devices and spur a new round of digital innovation. The New America Foundation is holding a one-day event in Washington DC on October 2, 2007: Driving Wireless Broadband and Innovation…

From Nortel

Case Study:Published 2007

Summary: This report examines an oft-touted application that financially justifies a number of muni wireless initiatives, advanced meter infrastructure – AMI. You are probably familiar with the more commonly used term, AMR – automated meter reading. AMR is used a lot to describe anything related to reading a meter without having to walk up and eyeball it. AMI is different in that it more accurately describes the application that muni wireless is enabling.

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