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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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
From Nortel Case Study: Published 2007 Summary: The Special Areas Board* is a unique rural municipal area covering approximately 5 million acres in southeastern Alberta. The Special Areas Board is responsible for the administration of the area as it relates to providing all municipal services as well as the leasing of public lands within the [...]
From Nortel Case Study: Published 2007 Summary: The small, bayside city of Annapolis, Md., has played an integral role in American history since its incorporation in 1708. Named for then Princess Anne of Great Britain, the city was once temporarily the U.S. capital. Now Annapolis Wireless Internet is working to add its name to the [...]
From Nortel Case Study: Published 2007 Summary: A Nortel Municipal Wireless solution is now allowing the City of Greenville to provide free downtown Internet access. The city has deployed Nortel’s Wireless Mesh product – the Nortel Wireless Gateway 7250 – as well as Wireless Access Point 7220s and the Nortel Enterprise Network Management System, which [...]
Company Profile : Nortel Nortel has shaped the evolution of communications for more than a century. With customers in more than 150 countries, Nortel solutions power the globe’s top 25 service provider networks, serve as the foundations of world economies and financial centers, and drive communications that enrich rural and underdeveloped regions across the globe. [...]
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John: is this a free service for snow birds ?...
Urbanite: I thought the same thing, until I found out they u...
A Ajaz: Dear All Good day!
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irene barry: I am submitting a grant proposal for my school and...
doug berman: Having deployed hundreds of outdoor AP networks. I...
Meeting Fairy: Very good point on wifi access. Now, this is not g...
Someone in Thailand: Engenius, Zyxel, Ubiquiti which do not guarantee g...
Rory Coanway: Singapore is far more dense than the U.S. and make...
Esme Vos: That is something I'm trying to find out....
Rory Conaway: Do we know what access point they are using?...
me: Wimax uses adaptive modulation the speed is direct...
Ken Biba: I am skeptical of the overarching assertions in th...
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