Delray Beach, Florida is still looking for alternatives to the Wi-Fi service that E-Path Communications was supposed to have delivered. Two months ago, the city canceled its contract with E-Path after endless delays. E-Path is also the service provider that Nassau and Suffolk counties (NY) hired to deploy a countywide wireless broadband network (probably never [...]

It’s hurricane season again so time to figure out how communications networks can be beefed up to ensure that they survive these storms. Projectsafety.org recently demonstrated how a network can survive a hurricane. Larry Karisny sent me the following press release regarding a demo they did at a recent Hurricane Preparedness Expo: John’s Pass Hurricane [...]

Aurora, Illinois has issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking responses from companies that may be interested in deploying a free or low-cost citywide Wi-Fi network. Last month, MetroFi told the city that it would shut down the city’s Wi-Fi network because the costs were too high and the return on investment too uncertain. Only [...]

No one is surprised by news of yet another municipal wireless project delayed. In this case it’s Wireless Washtenaw county in Michigan, whose provider, 20/20 Communications, needs $10 million to finish the network. They have already spent between $2 million and $3 million. They say they are not pulling out of the project (like MetroFi [...]