What are the Top 50 Trends in Municipal Wireless? We’re counting them down at our MuniWireless 2007: Silicon Valley conference in Santa Clara. Here are items 20-11 on the list.
What are the Top 50 Trends in Municipal Wireless? We’re counting them down at our MuniWireless 2007: Silicon Valley conference in Santa Clara. Here are items 20-11 on the list.
50-41. Read that portion of the list here.
40-31. Read that portion of the list here.
30-21. Read that portion of the list here.
20. AT&T’s Stance: AT&T has not changed its tune. It is still against cities using public funds to compete with private enterprise and believes that communications should be left up to private firms like AT&T, notes a post from MuniWireles founder Esme Vos.
19. Another Success: Amory, Mississippi, has a 10 square mile municipal wireless network. Within 60 days of launch it had 1,000 users and it now spans nearly 3,000 households, according to Bill Gurley, general partner at Benchmark Capital. Tropos had announced the network in May 2007.
18. City Ports, Railways and Highways: Municipal broadband is the next natural build-out for municipalities that want to have modern ports of commerce, according Benchmark Capital’s Gurley.
17. Segments Coming: Somewhere between dial-up and a $35 DSL offering, municipal broadband will carve out a niche for itself, Benchmark Capital’s Gurley predicted.
16. Be Browser Agnostic: During a Device panel at the conference, Comunicano’s Andy Abramson noted that too many WiFi hotspots and municipal networks demand Internet Explorer as the default browser.
15. Sample This: Comunicano’s Abramson also noted that the single most effective marketing tool to drive business is “sampling.” Get people to log onto networks and have them sample specific offers. For instance, Starbucks in some regions is offering store visitors a free song of the day from iTunes.
14. Happy Belated Birthday: Karl Garcia, a technical staff member from Google, mentioned that the Mountain View, Calif., network turned one year old in August.
13. Peak Usage: The Mountain View network gets its heaviest workload between 4pm and midnight, according to Google’s Garcia.
12. Xbox On the Go: One Mount View network user set up his Xbox 360 in his car in order to play network games while on the go.
11. Hello Again, iPhone: Yes, the iPhone makes our list again. Roughly 850 iPhones touch the Mountain View network daily.
10-1. And finally, our Top 10 Trends in MuniWireless.
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