MuniWireless

Cablevision announced that it is rolling out a wireless broadband network in the East Coast, specifically  in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York City and on Long Island. The company has already spent $20 million (out of the estimated $300 million) on the network. Cablevision’s plan for Long Island certainly puts a damper on the county-wide wireless network that E-Path Communications is trying to deploy (without success so far). Cablevision says that it will be offering voice and video services as…

Readers of our Sidecut Report on WiMax weren’t surprised to read in USA Today that the big telco likes WiMax, despite a strategic direction tilted in favor of Long Term Evolution (LTE) for its main 4G strategy.

In our report, we offered some details of AT&T’s current WiMax deployments, which include one in Alaska and one in Pahrump, Nev. In our post “Five Things You Didn’t Know About the Clearwire WiMax Deal,” we added more analysis, saying that “AT&T may be…

The French competition authority Conseil de la concurrence (equivalent of the FTC in the US) wants the government to ease regulations governing mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) to increase competition in the mobile telephony market, which is dominated by SFR, Orange and Bouygues Telecom. The competition authority recently issued a report in which it noted that MVNOs play a significant role in fostering more competition. Eric Besson, minister in charge of new technology and communications in the Sarkozy cabinet, says…

The town of Springfield, Michigan (pop. 5000) began offering Wi-Fi service to its residents this week. Using a $750,000 grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corp., Springfield hired ACD to deploy the network throughout the municipality. ACD is using equipment from Zhone Technologies.

Wi-Fi is already available in some parts of the community; other neighborhoods are scheduled to be “unwired” in the coming weeks. They are charging $10 per month for access. It’s not clear whether residents will have to buy…