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Last week Philadelphia announced it hopes to buy the wireless network from a group of local investors who bought it from EarthLink about a year ago. This on the same day the Feds announced the first batch of stimulus grant winners. As I finish edits to the revision of my 2005 book on broadband strategy [...]
Last Friday in Paris, the French regulator ARCEP held a press conference to announce that Iliad-Free will be the new mobile operator in France. It has taken five years for the French government to bring a fourth operator market because of strong opposition from the other incumbents, France Télécom-Orange, SFR and Bouygues. ARCEP had no [...]
The Twittersphere is aglow with news reports that the federal government is finally announcing the winners of Round 1 of the broadband stimulus funding. Among the first announcements: The Biddeford Internet Corporation, a public-private partnership between service providers and the University of Maine, will receive a $25.4 million Recovery Act grant to construct middle-mile infrastructure [...]
A few weeks ago, Swindon (pop. 190,000) announced that it is rolling out citywide Wi-Fi service in partnership with Aqovia and Avity, two private companies that own shares in Digital City UK which will run the network. We have more details about the service. The network cost £1m to deploy and Digital City plans to [...]
The city of Philadelphia plans to buy the citywide wireless mesh network for the bargain basement price of $2 million from NAC (Network Acquisition Company), the firm that bought the network from EarthLink, which pulled out of the municipal wireless business in 2008. NAC’s investors include Dave Hanna, Chairman of Tropos Networks, the equipment vendor whose [...]
The NTIA and RUS have posted the comments to the RFI issued last month seeking public comments on the requirements and processes for the first round of funding. The RFI generated a lot of responses from cities, non-profit organizations, Native American communities, equipment vendors, counties, civil right organizations and more. Go to: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/broadbandgrants/commentsround2.cfm Related post: [...]
The news reports about “Verizon Wi-Fi” are breathless today as if this is the thing we’ve all been waiting for. Here’s an excerpt from the press release: “Verizon Wireless introduced Verizon Wi-Fi, a way for Mobile Broadband customers to access thousands of Wi-Fi hotspots at no additional charge and to move easily from the nation’s [...]
Iberbanda (the rural wireless arm of incumbent operator, Telefonica) has chosen Chinese equipment manufacturer, ZTE, for its WiMAX network in rural Spain. Iberbanda had previously selected Alvarion for its WiMAX network in Catalonia. Telefonica has previously signed ZTE for a larger 3G/4G contract.
Gregory Rose, co-author of the research report The ‘WiMAX Band’ (2.5 GHz): Characteristics, Technology, Major Spectrum Holders in the BRS-EBS Service and Prospects for Auction 86, has posted an article summarizing the winners and losers of the recent FCC auction of spectrum in the “WiMAX Band”. Clearwire got most of the licenses followed by Digital [...]
Vecima Networks (TSX:VCM) designs and manufactures products for fixed and nomadic wireless broadband content delivery from 600 MHz to 5.8 GHz. Applications include data access, voice over IP, cellular backhaul, video backhaul, smart grid/SCADA , smart meters/AMI, site monitoring, public safety and security/video surveillance. Vecima’s wireless architecture is composed of high capacity base stations, subscriber [...]
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