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As I was saying last week, I do not believe the FCC’s National Broadband Plan will bring affordable high-speed broadband to Americans unless it focuses on creating robust competition in the market for broadband services. This means forcing incumbents to open their networks to competitors. Professor Yochai Benkler (co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet [...]
The (sponsored) free Wi-Fi access did not go away after the Christmas holidays. Skype is sponsoring free Wi-Fi this weekend at 100,000 hotspots around the world. Skype is trying to publicize its recently launched Skype Access, a service that allows you to pay for Wi-Fi by the minute. Free Wi-Fi will be available at the [...]
As a longtime Skype user, I was pleased to see that Skype now allows me to pay for Wi-Fi access in places that charge for Wi-Fi (such as airports) without going through the trouble of getting out the credit card, typing in the details, and authenticating via a cumbersome login screen. This is very handy [...]
The city of San Fernando (Los Angeles County) has issued an RFP for the design and installation of a wireless data network using mesh technology in the licensed 4.9 GHz public safety spectrum. Note that network has to support future use of 2.4 GHz for automated meter reading and municipal Wi-Fi access. You can request [...]
New-Generation Mesh Networks Offer Low-Cost Broadband Alternative Some mesh networks have recently been discredited when unrealistic business plans as part of municipal in partnerships with poorly written proposals failed. The failures were incorrectly attributed to unlicensed 2.4 GHz mesh technology instead of the financial models. The technology worked, but the real cost was never understood [...]
The city council of Riverside, California has agreed to take over the Wi-Fi network that AT&T has deployed across the city. Steve Reneker, CIO of Riverside, also informed in that the takeover will occur on 15 September 2010. If you have not yet done so, please read last week’s interview with Steve Reneker.
Harold Feld has written an article analyzing the FCC’s National Broadband Plan. Since he managed to get through the entire piece (unlike me), his take on the Plan is worth reading, especially because he disagrees with me on the issue of incumbent influence. We do agree on one critical factor: he and I are appalled [...]
This is the last of a series of articles written by Marc Canter about digital cities and fiber networks. In the first two parts of this series I defined what I meant when I use the term “Digital City” and the basic rights that every Digital Citizen has to a JOB! I talked about a [...]
“I believe that the biggest threat to the future of mobile in America is the looming spectrum crisis.” – FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, October 2009 Is the wireless world running out of available airwaves? From a certain perspective, it might seem that way. The struggles of AT&T’s attempts to keep its iPhone customers happy have [...]
A large Wi-Fi hotzone has been deployed in the low income Pleasant Ridge housing community in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. The network provides free access to a job search portal, as part of a digital divide project that offers job training, as well as laptops to residents of the housing community. Over the same network, WiFi Pittsburgh [...]
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