MuniWireless

Wireless Silicon Valley is still on, despite all the bad news about MetroFi’s decision to pull out of Portland, Oregon and other cities. The city of San Carlos will be the first municipality to get unwired after the city council gave its approval. Covad, the city’s Internet provider, just happens to be Wireless Silicon Valley’s partner in the project. We’ll see if they get beyond San Carlos. One of the problems with Silicon Valley is that it is spread out…

Back in February, we reported how frustrated FCC commish Jonathan Adelstein was at the pace of broadband deployment in the U.S. While we liked his idea of national broadband summits, at the time it seemed like a good idea without much behind it.

Tuesday, Google and a few of its friends got behind the idea in a big way, launching something called Internetforeveryone.org, which is clearly a place for Google and others to promote their ideas for open, more-available Internet to…

The city of Bangkok wants people to stop driving around and start using the Internet more often to communicate and get work done. So they are offering free Wi-Fi access at 15,000 hotspots in the city. There’s a caveat: the speed is basically dial-up (64 Kbps) so one could send and receive email, and do basic Web surfing but that’s it. This is the first time I’ve heard of a city urging people to cut back on petrol use by…