Archive | May, 2010

Bellevue, Washington free Wi-Fi hotzone: almost 50 percent iPhone, iPod Touch users

The city of Bellevue, Washington has had a Wi-Fi hotzone with free access in its central business district since 2007. The city owns the network, but it is managed by HarborLink, an ISP based in Dayton, Ohio. The network uses 28 Cisco 802.11b/g wireless mesh access points and covers an area of 0.66 square miles [...]

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RUS broadband grant awardee seeks consultant

A company that has been awarded an RUS grant for rural broadband under Round 1 of BIP is looking for a consultant who is experienced in RUS grants to help them comply with the rules for allowable costs, cost allocation, market pricing, and more. If you are an experienced RUS consultant, please email me with the appropriate [...]

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Clearwire: Clearing the Decks for LTE?

They say it, and we believe it: Right now, for the foreseeable future, Clearwire Corp. (Nasdaq: CLWR) is a WiMAX company, selling a WiMAX-based 4G service that by all accounts is doing quite well. But the company’s potential to add Long Term Evolution (LTE) services to its portfolio increased in probability Wednesday, with the revelation of [...]

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Clearwire adds 283,000 subscribers, plans 2 WiMAX phones

We TOLD you there was going to be a lot of news from Clearwire today, and the company didn’t disappoint: In addition to having easily its biggest quarter ever in terms of new subscriber signups — 283,000 new additions during Q1 — Clearwire also announced some additional markets for 2010 launches and said it would [...]

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Tales from the Towers Chapter 4: You Should Never Hang APs With Your Spouse

The low-budget Muni-wireless system is ready to be deployed.  We have identified the perfect one square mile area to be covered.  The streetlights are 25’ tall and exactly 660 feet apart with full time electric power.  There are no trees and the houses are 20’ tall and made of wood.  Nobody in the area owns [...]

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