MuniWireless

The New York Times looks into hotels, airports and other venues that offer their guests free and paid Wi-Fi. Many hotels require guests to pay for Wi-Fi in their rooms but offer free service in the lobby. Others like the Denver Airport moved to a free, ad-supported model. But McCarran airport in Las Vegas has always provided Wi-Fi service free of charge because the revenue from user fees was too small to justify charging for access and the airport felt…

Here’s your chance to tell the European Commission what you think about the recent EU rules requiring mobile phone operators to lower their roaming rates. The Commission has launched a public consultation and invites everyone to comment by 2 July 2008. Among the other issues they want you to address are:

inadvertent roaming (or involuntary roaming) when consumers use their mobile phone close to the border of a neighbouring country and are connected to a foreign network; the effect of the regulations…

The city of Delray Beach, Florida has decided to terminate the contract with E-Path Communications, the company that the city hired to deploy a wireless hotzone. E-Path says they had problems getting wireless equipment on utility light poles. But the city is fed up with the company’s excuses.

E-Path’s countywide wireless deployment in Long Island, New York is also delayed. In the past I expressed serious doubts about Suffolk and Nassau counties’ decision to go with a provider that has very…