MuniWireless

Here is the latest update on US cities and counties that have citywide Wi-Fi networks (for public access and government/municipal applications) and Wi-Fi hotzones. Included in the list are those that are planning large city wireless networks. I finally got around to doing this update after many of you complained that the old list was completely unreliable, which it was because it’s from January 2008 and we know many cities have abandoned or put on hold, their wireless network plans.…

Alvarion (NASDAQ: ALVR) is the largest WiMAX pure-player with the most extensive WiMAX customer base and over 250 commercial deployments around the globe. Committed to growing the WiMAX market, the company offers solutions for a wide range of frequency bands supporting a variety of business cases.

Alvarion’s complete product portfolio is tailored for the needs of advanced vertical applications in a variety of markets. Whether you need to offer high bandwidth, high speed wireless connectivity for service provider access services, enhanced…

The European Commission has approved the Danish telecom operator’s new rules to force TDC (the largest Danish cable company) to open up its cable broadband network to competitors. The Commission’s move does not mean all large cable operators around Europe will have to do the same. Unlike other EU member states, Denmark’s incumbent telecoms operator, TDC, also controls large parts of the cable network. The Danish regulator is merely extending obligations that already exist for TDC’s telecoms network to its…

Human meter readers will soon be as obsolete as coachmen, not just in New York City, but in other American municipalities. New York has announced that it will be replacing over 800,000 water meters, currently read by humans, by wireless meters monitored automatically. The new system will inform residents in real time about their water consumption and allow the city to find and fix leaks rapidly. New York’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications has hired Aclara Technology to install…

Thomas Friedman, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times columnist, has been selected as keynote speaker at F2C: Freedom to Connect, a conference organized by David Isenberg every year in Washington DC. The aim of the conference is to connect beltway tech policy wonks with telecom practitioners and infrastructure builders across the United States and Europe.

Friedman will speak on “Green Innovation,” a topic that amplifies the major themes of F2C: Freedom to Connect. F2C is about building an open, abundant…