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The Mountain Area Information Network (MAIN), a non-profit Internet service provider based in the beautiful town of Asheville, North Carolina is banding together with a group of fiber optic broadband providers to apply for a broadband stimulus grant. Wally Bowen, executive director of MAIN, says that they are teaming up with ERC Broadband, Pangaea and [...]
ERF Wireless has announced that it is applying for a broadband stimulus grant across two or more states to increase the size of its wireless broadband deployments (mostly based on WiMAX) in rural areas. At present, they have customers in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico. ERF is seeking to partner with local wireless ISPs [...]
The Muniwireless How to Get a Grant Guide: Part 1 is now available for download. The guide summarizes the key features of the recently released NTIA and RUS rules for projects seeking funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and provides guidance to those who are thinking of applying for a grant. [...]
Zhone Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZHNE) is a global leader in multi-service access network solutions, serving more than 700 of the world’s most innovative network operators. The company offers the industry’s only fully-integrated portfolio of MSAP, FTTx, EFM and metro Wi-Fi access technologies, improving network agility and reducing the costs of delivering the full spectrum of [...]
We’re a month from the filing deadline for the first (could it be the only?) funding round for broadband grant proposals, and the feds are currently on a national tour to answer questions, clarify points, etc. Like the cool rock bands, this tour should have a theme. Borrowing from the Clash would be spot on: [...]
The European Commission announced this week that ten mobile phone vendors have signed a MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) regarding the “Harmonisation of Charging Capability for Mobile Phones” that will cover mobile phones and a majority of devices using radio frequencies to be sold in Europe. This new unified charger creates a new European standard and [...]
Editor’s Note: The following post is an excerpt from our new report, Goin’ Mobile: How WiMax Could Change the Consumer Broadband Experience. In this excerpt we talk about how flexible, innovative pricing schemes from main provider Clearwire may help drive the adoption of WiMax services by consumers. The report, which updates our previous consumer guide [...]
The New York MTA and Long Island Rail Road have issued a Request for Expressions of Interest regarding the deployment of wireless broadband in trains and stations. Responses are due on 1 September 2009. Public transport companies are increasingly providing wireless broadband (mostly Wi-Fi) to passengers, often for free, to entice people away from their [...]
If you already have too much money, or are simply idle this summer and unusually patriotic, do consider volunteering to review broadband stimulus grant applications because the NTIA is not willing to pay any money at all for this extremely important task. I find the NTIA’s refusal to pay for these services an absolute insult [...]
This is one application I’ve been waiting for and it will be available in Boston very soon. An iPhone application called Citizen Connect will let iPhone owners take photos of potholes, graffiti, broken street lights, crumbling sidewalks, anything that’s a nuisance, and send them to City Hall so the municipality can fix them. I hope [...]
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doug berman: Having deployed hundreds of outdoor AP networks. I...
Meeting Fairy: Very good point on wifi access. Now, this is not g...
Someone in Thailand: Engenius, Zyxel, Ubiquiti which do not guarantee g...
Rory Coanway: Singapore is far more dense than the U.S. and make...
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Rory Conaway: Do we know what access point they are using?...
me: Wimax uses adaptive modulation the speed is direct...
Ken Biba: I am skeptical of the overarching assertions in th...
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PJ: Um it's a UK supermarket chain, not THE UK superm...
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