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The European Commission has allowed Scotland to use £3.4 million (€4.32 million) in public funds to bring broadband to remote areas of Scotland. EU state aid rules place restrictions on member states using public funds to subsidize the creation of broadband infrastructure or services that compete with private enterprise. However, in this case, the Commission concluded that public funding is necessary to bring broadband to users in remote areas of Scotland. Private service providers will have non-discriminatory access to the…

Outdoor public spaces within the Dubai free zone clusters will have Wi-Fi coverage starting in April 2008. These areas include Dubai Internet City, Dubai Media City and Knowledge Village. TECOM Investments and du (a UAE operator) have entered into a partnership to deliver Wi-Fi access in Dubai. Click here to read more.

The Colorado Wireless Communities (CWC), a group of 10 cities in Colorado (Boulder, Arvada, Broomfield, Lakewood, Northglenn, Thornton, Golden, Louisville, Superior and Wheat Ridge), are wondering whether they should continue trying to work with C-Com, a Boulder-based service provider, whom they picked to deploy the wireless broadband network across the ten cities. Pursuant to the arrangement with C-Com, CWC will work with them exclusively but only if C-Com manages to find funding for the network (the cost is between $15…

Los Angeles commuters on the Orange Line won’t be enjoying the benefits of Wi-Fi access on the Metro bus line any time soon because the operator, Metro, has dropped plans to provide wireless broadband to passengers. They claim that no service provider is interested. While other people in other cities are reaping the benefits of public transport equipped with Wi-Fi, Los Angeles, which desperately needs more people to take public transport, is looking the other way.

There are so many benefits…

On 21 May 2008 a video conference is taking place at five locations (Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, San Diego, and San Francisco) to provide feedback on the project findings of the Wireless Comparative Analysis and Best Practices Education Project. The organizers of the video conference are Community Partners, the California Community Technology Policy Group, the BroadBand Institute of California and the California Emerging Technology Fund. The attendees are representatives from community-based organizations, industry, and government agencies involved or interested in…

People who are visiting Bern, Switzerland this summer for the European 2008 football championships will have free Wi-Fi access to the entire network of TheNet, thanks to a partnership with Energy Water Bern and the Espace Media Group. There’s already free Wi-Fi in Bern wherever TheNet has its coverage. In addition to the existing locations (Bern main station, Bärenplatz, Waisenhausplatz parts of the Länggasse), there’s Wi-Fi access at the Bubenbergplatz, Helvetiaplatz, Münstergasse, parts of Wylerring, the Kirchenfeld Quartier and Sandrainstrasse.

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