MuniWireless

What are the enlightened US Congress representatives doing when they’re not worrying about the sinking dollar, the collapse of the financial markets, a recession, the war in Iraq and global warming?

What else: auctioning off even more spectrum (as if we need yet another spectrum monopoly) so that some poor idiot can provide free Wi-Fi to consumers and public safety users, and of course, protecting those young impressionable minds from “obscene content”. Just to show you that silliness knows no party boundaries,…

Twenty-two vendors have responded to the Request for Proposals (RFP) issued by the Gainesville Regional Utility in November 2007.

1. Solutrea Inc. 2. CONXX, Inc. 3. Presidio 4. Northrop Grumman 5. Sentinel Technologies, Inc. 6. CSG DATA Networks, Inc. 7. Honeywell International, Inc. 8. Federal Signal Corporation 9. Coleman Technologies, Inc. 10. Big Wireless 11. MetroFi, Inc. 12. Integral Wireless Solutions 13. AFL Telecommunications 14. Alcatel-Lucent 15. IBM and Nortel 16. Motorola, Inc. 17. M/A-COM, Inc. 18. Adesta, LLC 19. Systems…