MuniWireless

The city of Boston, Massachusetts is officially launching a wireless hotzone in Grove Hall/Dudley Square neighborhood (by Roxbury and Dorchester). Click here to view the coverage map.

The network is the result of a partnership among openairboston.net, Galaxy Internet (an Internet Service Provider) and BelAir Networks, an equipment vendor. According to the press release, since the soft launch in late August 2007, “the network has already had over 3,000 unique users, with average session length of 79 minutes per user.” There…

When I read the news that iPass is finally going into the consumer market, I was thrilled. For years iPass has been serving the enterprise market, allowing employees of its customers to get wireless Internet access (3G and Wi-Fi) via their partners worldwide. Now, their terrific service is available to you and me. Unless, you’re like me and have a Mac.

The service is expensive: the global 3G/Wi-Fi combo is $84.95 per month. But for people who need to be connected…

Toronto Hydro Telecom’s plan to deploy citywide wireless broadband seems to be going nowhere. At first it appeared that THT would be one of the more successful operators. It has access to its own fiber network and it is a public utility owned by the city. Not only that, it could use the network for municipal and utility applications, and deliver public Internet access. All the ingredients for a successful network, right? Well, according to this commentary, the problem is…

As I sit here at the United Nations attending a U.N. sponsored event entitled United Nations Meets Web 2.0 and ICT Entrepreneurs, I am reminded of the movie Groundhog Day where Bill Murray’s character, Phil Connors, is given innumerable days to put all the pieces together to ultimately win the affection of his co-anchor. I am a speaker at this event where I explain the role that broadband wireless can play in the development of an emerging country. Everyone in…