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The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article from a year ago about Wi-Fi on flights in the US. It’s a good time to revisit this article given that more and more airlines are installing Wi-Fi. According to the article, when airlines charge for Wi-Fi, even if the charge is just $1, the number of users [...]
Boingo Wireless is adding more than 1,600 additional locations in Japan through a roaming partnership with NTT Communications, one of the largest Wi-Fi providers in Asia. Many who have traveled to Tokyo and other Japanese cities have reported difficulties in finding free Wi-Fi. When I traveled in Japan in 2008 (Tokyo, Kyoto and Fukuoka), I [...]
The NTIA announced 9 recipients of BTOP grants today totalling $114 million. Among the big winners are One Economy ($28.5 million), the Washington Public Utility district of Pend Oreille County ($27.2 million), Virginia’s Buggs Island Telephone Cooperative ($19 million), Puerto Rico’s Critical Hub ($25.8 million) and Digital Bridge ($4.4 million). Today’s announcement marks the final [...]
This southern European country is undergoing a Wi-Fi revolution. Until recently, only a few cities have launched modest Wi-Fi projects. Since regulatory and technical issues have been clarified, more cities have deployed municipal wireless networks, and many others are currently in the planning stage. Specifically, since Barcelona decided in 2008 to deploy two city-wide Wi-Fi [...]
Minnie Ingersoll (Google) has just given a short presentation at the FiberFete in Lafayette, Louisiana today (21 April 2010) about the status of the Google Fiber for Communities project and the criteria for choosing the winner(s) of Google’s contest. As you know, Google issued a Request for Information (RFI) looking for a community to set [...]
This is the third installment of my “Tales from the Towers” series of articles about deploying large scale Wi-Fi networks in unlicensed bands. The theme: share and share alike. Although we were going to discuss putting access points (APs) on the poles in this week’s article, an incident occurred last week that I think is [...]
Technology and Community Leaders to Dream up Possibilities for Our Most Wired Cities I will be attending FiberFête on April 20-22 at Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) in Lafayette to celebrate the city’s deployment of a community-owned fiber network. FiberFête brings global technology entrepreneurs and activists together with local community leaders to explore how fiber [...]
The NTIA has awarded a $28.6 million BTOP grant to Allegiance Communications to deploy a new fiber optic network over 680 miles in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. The project intends to directly connect more than 70 community anchor institutions to the broadband network, including city halls, police stations, fire stations, libraries, schools, and a [...]
Stop The Cap has informed us that “North Carolina’s incumbent cable and phone companies are once again trying to ram through an anti-municipal broadband bill, and their timing is designed to rush it through committee before a groundswell of consumer opposition has a chance to build. Time is short — the bill will be taken [...]
Sioux Falls, South Dakota has just deployed a microwave backhaul system to link together 20 public buildings. The project caught my eye because it challenges one of the assumptions most of us make – that fiber is always more reliable and faster than wireless. Apparently, not in Sioux Falls. Yesterday, I spoke to Kim Hansen, Network [...]
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