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OneBroward, a non-profit organization, has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a community-owned wired and wireless broadband network covering 500 square miles (1300 square kilometers) of Broward County, Florida. The goal of the project is to provide broadband Internet access to residents, improve public safety and law enforcement, as well as efficiency in local [...]
They’re whoopin’ it up at Sprint headquarters, as the Xohm WiMax folks there celebrate hitting an internal infrastructure deployment date well ahead of schedule. A confident and happy Xohm president Barry West spoke with us by phone Thursday afternoon for an update on the inaugural Xohm launch in Baltimore in September, as well as device, [...]
Reading, Pennsylvania (pop. 400,000) is installing a municipal wireless video surveillance network. In phase one they are setting up 22 cameras around the city and providing 4.9 GHz mobile access to police officers. The backhaul is the fiber optic network owned by MAW Communications. The city has partnered with Wi4Net, a division of CelPlan Technologies. [...]
Comcast announced that starting October 1, it is imposing a 250 GB monthly limit on its customers’ downloads. You might say, 250 GB seems awfully high, I’ll never exceed that. Indeed, just sending emails, browsing websites and downloading music occasionally won’t get you even near 100 GB per month. So what’s the cap all about? [...]
We’re not sure yet if the Intel sport-utes will be in the house, but we have confirmed that Clearwire will have a live, working Mobile WiMax demo during the upcoming CTIA Wireless I.T. and Entertainment show in San Francisco, Sept. 10-12. The mini-WiMax network demo should help kick off a big month for WiMax in [...]
The European Regulator Group (ERG), an organization that brings together the 34 national regulators of the European Union, recently published its second report on wholesale and retail charges for cellular communications in Europe. The ERG acts as a central point for collecting data from each country’s telecom regulator. This report gives a clearer picture of [...]
The conventional wisdom among my friends who are Net Neutrality fanatics is that a change of regime will finally bring about tough net neutrality legislation, ushering in a Golden Age of cutthroat competition in the US market for broadband services, leading to faster speeds, lower monthly costs for Internet access, no throttling, no deep packet [...]
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is running a Wi-Fi bus between Stonestown Shopping Center and Outer Richmond from Monday through Friday, thanks to a partnership with Cisco. In addition to providing Wi-Fi to passengers, the bus has several touch-screens that let people who don’t have iPhones or laptops, view transportation maps and obtain information [...]
T-Mobile has released interesting statistics on the iPhone’s usage in the Netherlands since the launch of the 3G version six weeks ago: 49% of iPhone customers are between 25-49 years old, 26% are between 18-24. More men than women have purchased the phone. The average data use in the first 5 days after the launch [...]
Fauquier County. Virginia has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the creation of a county-wide broadband network. Note: the network can be wired, wireless or both. Fauquier County (pop. 63,000, largely rural) is in the north central Piedmont region of Virginia, 40 miles southwest of Washington DC. It covers 660 square miles (1710 square kilometers). Although the county is not funding the [...]
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