According to a senior aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the federal government’s economic stimulus package will include investment in broadband Internet infrastructure and funds to upgrade and repair the national power grid alongside more traditional funding for road and bridge repair. Already incumbents like AT&T are lining up for this money. Please don’t give [...]
Open letter to President-elect Obama: please don’t send the stimulus money to the telecom incumbents
Illinois issues RFP for implementing broadband deployment
The Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity (DCEO) is seeking to fund a nonprofit organization with a record of implementing successful broadband deployment and demand creation initiatives. Download the $4 million Request for Proposals which is required by the Illinois 2007 Internet Services and Information Technology Act. The proposal deadline is January 12, 2009 [...]
BT Wi-Fi traffic doubles in one year
British Telecom (BT) reports that between April and September 2008, customers spent twice as much time on its WiFi networks as in the preceding six months. People spent more than a million minutes a day on the average on BT OpenZone and BT FON networks. BT is not the only company reporting dramatic increases in [...]
Solon, Ohio deploys municipal wireless network
Solon, Ohio (pop. 24,000), a municipality 20 miles east of Cleveland, has deployed a municipal wireless broadband network that offers free Wi-Fi access to residents. The WiFi hotzone is located around the Community Center and throughout public parks. The city plans to expand the network to cover the entire community at a low cost to [...]
Cool wireless application: no more waiting for hours in the ER
A friend of mine who works in the IT department of a large hospital says they are testing the expansion of their RFID and WiFi tracking system to reduce ER waiting times. My friend says: It’s working in the Emergency department right now. I don’t know if you’ve ever had the pleasure of being admitted [...]
MuniWireless launches new website and WiMAX coverage
New website includes WiMAX section and maps of WiFi and WiMAX deployments worldwide. San Francisco, CA. (PRWEB) December 3, 2008 — MuniWireless (http://www.muniwireless.com) (the leading source of news and analysis about municipal wireless broadband networks) has launched its new web site that covers citywide deployments of WiFi networks worldwide. MuniWireless has added a new WiMAX [...]
Mobile social networking survey reveals 12% check personal messages in bed
A survey conducted by mobile community Itsmy.com revealed that almost 12% of the itsmy.com members are still in bed when they check their personal messages for the first time during the day. The company asked 15,000 members and found out that: the average user visits an astonishing 160 mobile internet pages per day heavy users [...]
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