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Charlottesville, Virginia is now providing free Wi-Fi service in the downtown area. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the city hired an ISP to provide the service: “Last year, the city estimated that it would cost between $50,000 and $60,000 in capital costs to enable the service. Blue Ridge’s bid came in at much less — [...]
Wrexham & Shropshire railway will offer free Wi-Fi services to rail passengers on all trains running between Central London and the UK Midlands. According to the press release issued by Icomera (the company that supplies the wireless access points), the rail operator will also provide power outlets for laptops, netbooks, phones and other devices. The trains [...]
The French Conseil Constitutionnel, the highest court in France (equivalent to the US Supreme Court), has ruled that certain provisions of the recently passed Hadopi Law are unconstitutional. In particular, the court held that the decision to terminate the Internet access of people found illegally downloading content, must be taken by a judge, not by [...]
Several weeks ago, I posted the Request for Information issued by the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) seeking providers for free Wi-Fi service in NYC parks. The DoITT has just posted their responses to questions asked by prospective bidders: Question #1: Is the WiFi Salon equipment still in place at locations [...]
Naperville, Illinois has turned on its downtown Wi-Fi service again after network owner, MetroFi, shut down last year. The city decided not to dismantle the network; instead, they got a local provider named WOW Access to take over the network and reactivate the service. Click on the graphic to see the area covered by Wi-Fi: [...]
This is an Alvarion white paper entitled “Muni Wireless and the Safe City: Municipal Wireless Networks for Safety, Security and Prosperity.” Please download it from Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/16258574/Using-wireless-networks-to-improve-public-safety-in-cities Abstract: Large-scale metro area networks are becoming an increasingly important tool in providing public services and ensuring public safety and security. Ubiquitous broadband networks have not only proven [...]
The city of Dundee, Scotland has replaced 100 wired leased lines to public buldings with a point to multipoint WiMAX network. These buildings include libraries, public schools, sports centers and council buildings. For the project, the city used Aerelink, a systems integrator, and Alvarion’s equipment. Eleven base stations, located on council buildings throughout the city, [...]
(Editor’s note: Paul Kapustka is founder and editor of Sidecut Reports, as well as WiMAX editor for MuniWireless.) Pardon the press-release tenor of our previous post, but we did want to put the news out there before explaining some of the inside-baseball decisions that prompted us here at Sidecut to radically reduce the price we [...]
Don’t we all wish Intel would fund our dreams? In the case of UQ Communications, the Japanese WiMAX operator, Intel Capital has lavished $43 million on the operator for the purpose of building a mobile WiMAX network in Japan. The problem with the Japanese market is that things that work well overseas never catch on [...]
A non-profit organization called Connected Nation based in Kentucky wants to provide broadband maps to the federal government and those maps could determine where the Obama Administration spends the broadband stimulus money. Connected Nation claims they are already creating maps for 10 states. There’s just one problem: the group is backed by Comcast, Verizon and [...]
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