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Three articles I want to point out to you that should get you thinking about the future of Wi-Fi: (1) Andy Abramson’s long and thoughtful piece about sponsored Wi-Fi, sending party pays and the future of media in which he argues: “Public Wireless” really takes hold, not from the telcos, or even the cable companies, [...]
I’m afraid the news is good and bad. Viviane Reding, proponent of structural separation, enemy of the incumbent telco and EU telecoms commissioner for many years, has been promoted to vice-president of the European Commission and the head of justice and internal security. Neelie Kroes, who has been the EU’s feared competition czar, will take [...]
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved a $5 million grant from the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) to the Central Coast Broadband Consortium (CCBC). The grant pays for 10% of the cost of a $50 million fiber optic trunk line network planned for Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito counties on California’s central coast [...]
Altoona, Pennsylvania (10 square mi., 25 square km; pop. 50,000) has deployed a municipal wireless broadband network that combines Wi-Fi (using 2.4 GHz) and licensed wireless (4.9 GHz) for public safety use. The network was deployed by BIG Wireless, a systems integrator based in York, Pennsylvania. The network will be used initially by the Altoona [...]
Worksnug is an iPhone application that uses “augmented reality” to help you find the best place in a city to sit and do your work — i.e. a cafe with Wi-Fi, co-working spaces, and more. You use your iPhone to scan the surroundings and Worksnug superimposes comments on the screen telling you if the Wi-Fi [...]
Swindon (UK) is getting a municipal Wi-Fi network, thanks to a joint venture with a local firm. News reports say that the network will cost £1 million and require 1400 access points, but details are sketchy and there is skepticism about the ability of Swindon and the service provider to pull this off. Despite that, The [...]
I was inspired to do a long article about Wi-Fi at conferences by Joel Spolsky’s article Wi-Fi At Conferences where he asks why Wi-Fi works so poorly at tech conferences. Muniwireless has organized conferences in the past and I won’t say that the Wi-Fi at our events has ben the very best either (however, it was [...]
The New America Foundation has published a report on broadband penetration and Internet use among Native American communities. As you might imagine, people who live on Indian lands have hardly any options when it comes to broadband, i.e. the vast majority don’t even have it. Where wireless broadband is available, it’s too expensive. But, until [...]
Following the example of Finland, the Spanish government says that beginning 2011, everyone in Spain will have the right to buy broadband at speeds of at least 1 megabyte per second. The government recognizes that, like telephone service, broadband is now an essential part of daily life. Any telecom operator that has a universal service [...]
On November 19, 2009, Blair Levin, Coordinator for the FCC National Broadband Plan and Daniel Weitzner, Associate Administrator for the Office of Policy Analysis and Development, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, will join a breakfast roundtable to discuss the release of a report by Native Public Media and the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative. The report, New Media, [...]
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