The city council of Anaheim, California voted to terminate EarthLink’s franchise for a municipal wireless broadband network. Under the termination agreement between Anaheim and EarthLink, the company is required to take down all of the wireless equipment installed on poles and other city property. EarthLink has pulled out of the muni Wi-Fi market and stopped [...]

Winston-Salem has decided to shelve its citywide wireless project. The city reposted its Request for Proposals, but failed to receive any credible bid. Azulstar, the company that won the initial bid, pulled out of the project in March this year. They have a 1 square mile demonstration site running in the downtown area. The equipment [...]

Long Island’s ambitious Wi-Fi project is stuck yet again, this time on the issue of how much E-Path Communications, the service provider chosen by Nassau and Suffolk Counties after a public tender, should pay Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) for pole mounting rights. LIPA says E-Path should pay $50 annually per pole because it is [...]

Fresno, California (pop. 480,000; 112 square miles) has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the creation of a Wi-Fi or WiMAX network that will cover the entire city. The municipality will spend no public funds on the network. The winner of the bid must bear all of the costs. The deadline for responses to [...]