MuniWireless

Mumbai, India will be issuing a public tender in August inviting companies to bid for the deployment of a citywide Wi-Fi network. The city does not want to spend any public funds on the project (sounds like SF, Philadelphia and Houston). Anyway, the wireless network will be an intranet, which people can use to communicate with one another. They want to get the network up and running within six months, which I find too ambitious. We have already seen how…

Milledgeville, Georgia is using the $862,000 grant from the Wireless Communikties Georgia program (of the Georgia Technology Authority) for a WiMAX network. The city had been making plans for a citywide Wi-Fi network but decided to partner instead with Clearwire. Milledgeville believes that WiMAX will be a better technology that Wi-Fi for covering large areas of the community. Indeed, because Clearwire is already deploying WiMAX in Atlanta, extending the service to Milledgeville won’t be too difficult. The city wants to…