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The NTIA has awarded $9 million to the city of Chicago to upgrade and expand its public computer centers. At present there are 3,300 computer workstations at more than 150 locations, including city libraries, workforce centers, public housing sites, and all seven city colleges. The grant will also allow the city to expand the centers’ hours of operation [...]
Big-box retailer Best Buy will resell Clearwire’s 4G WiMAX wireless broadband service under its “Best Buy Connect” brand beginning in 2011, the companies announced today. The deal, versions of which have been rumored almost ever since Clearwire put together its partnership financing deal back in 2008, makes Best Buy the first big-name wholesale partner for Clearwire [...]
Austin Utilities, a community-owed, non-profit utility (water, electric and natural gas) has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking an ISP as its management partner to run the wireless broadband network in the city and offer Internet access to residents and businesses. Austin Utilities owns the fiber network which the ISP can use as backhaul. [...]
More than one year after issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP), Silicon Valley Power (SVP), the utility owned by Santa Clara, California, has chosen Elster Solutions to install smart meters in businesses and residents throughout the city. The installation is scheduled to be completed by 2012. In addition, the free Wi-Fi access offered in some [...]
AT&T has created a Wi-Fi hotzone in Charlotte, North Carolina to offload data traffic from its clogged 3G network. It is reportedly planning to do the same in Chicago. AT&T already has a Wi-Fi hotzone in NYC (Times Square) set up for the same purpose. Unfortunately, none yet in San Francisco where the 3G network [...]
Municipal wireless designs were supposed to be an all-encompassing solution for residential Internet access and various municipal government needs. Let’s take this up a notch though. Data and connectivity are becoming critical for police officers who are handling traffic stops in dangerous situations without partners. With the technology we currently have, I believe that when [...]
In response to a Congressional directive to inquire whether broadband “is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion,” the FCC concluded in its Sixth Broadband Deployment Report that between 14 and 24 million Americans still lack access to broadband, and the immediate prospects for deployment to them are bleak. This report [...]
ExploreAir, the new microwave backhaul platform from Exalt, is now available for around US$10,000. Exalt claims that the new equipment delivers 500 megabits per-second full-duplex Ethernet plus native TDM. It supports world bands from 2 GHz to 40 GHz. Exalt’s existing product line, ExtendAir (which was released in March 2010), sells for between US$7,000 and [...]
Given the signal-to-noise ratio of the wireless industry in the U.S. these days, it’s understandable if busy professionals find it hard to keep details straight for every provider, especially new entrants to the marketplace like nascent national WiMAX provider Clearwire. To help you keep current with all things Clearwire, we offer our latest business-overview report, [...]
The Sidecut Reports CLEARWIRE BUSINESS REPORT for July, 2010, takes a deep-dive look into the recent market launches, the new devices and overall business dealings of the provider of the nation’s nascent WiMAX network. This report examines the details of the last six months of Clearwire’s operations, and offers deep analysis and projections for the [...]
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