Time Warner Cable (TWC) will start offering free Wi-Fi throughout Austin, Texas to people who subscribe to its cable service. People who are not subscribers will pay $2.95 per hour. Perhaps it is TWC’s attempt to keep customers from migrating to Google’s upcoming Fiber service. I wonder if Google will offer free WiFi service in [...]
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Esme Vos Yu is the founder of MuniWireless.com. Esme is also the founder of Mapplr, a travel website, and Lemon Cloud BV, an Amsterdam-based consulting firm.
The new challenge for Wi-Fi hot zones: video on smartphones
April 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Large Wi-Fi hot zones have been making news again, in Santa Clara (thanks to the city’s smart meter project), San Jose (free Wi-Fi downtown), Petaluma (free Wi-Fi hot zone), New York City (thanks to Google), and in metro stations, shopping centers and on public transportation. Many cities and private enterprises now have money to roll [...]
O2 WiFi proves highly popular among UK public
April 22, 2013 by 1 Comment
O2, a telecom company that operates WiFi hotspots across the UK says that more adults are now seeking out free public WiFi when they go shopping. O2 conducted a survey of 2000 adults in February 2013 and came up with these findings: Nearly three in five (58%) people admit they connect online when out shopping. Killing [...]
Provo, Utah becomes third Google Fiber city
April 17, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Google has announced that it will be offering Google Fiber service in Provo, Utah, if the city council approves Google’s acquisition of iProvo (the fiber optic network built by the city 10 years ago). Google plans to upgrade and extend the network to every home in the city. Here’s what Google says: Provo started building [...]
Austin, Texas is the next Google fiber city
April 10, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Google Fiber has confirmed that Austin, Texas is the next city to get fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) service after the FTTH rollout in Kansas City. Google says: Our goal is to start connecting homes in Austin by mid-2014. Customers there will have a similar choice of products as our customers in Kansas City: Gigabit Internet or Gigabit Internet plus [...]
Petaluma free Wi-Fi finally arrives
March 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
After years of planning (at least since 2007), Petaluma, California is rolling out its free Wi-Fi service in the downtown area. Downtown businesses and local residents have been strong supporters of the free WiFi network. In the past, Petaluma had been engaged in negotiations with Sonic.net to bring WiFi service to the city but those [...]
Free WiFi, thanks to your electric meter
March 27, 2013 by 1 Comment
Who knew that those bland little things attached to your wall to measure the amount of electricity you consume would one day provide free WiFi service to you and your neighbours? We’ve been talking about this on MuniWireless for years and finally, the city of Santa Clara, through the municipal electric utility Silicon Valley Power [...]
The return of large scale WiFi deployments
March 19, 2013 by 10 Comments
Large scale WiFi projects are on the rebound after a hiatus (and the failure of several cities to complete the rollout of their municipal wireless networks) according to Patrick Nelson in his article, I Want My M-WiFi. There are several reasons: Carriers are using Wi-Fi to offload cellular data traffic. Operators are combining Wi-Fi and [...]
San Jose free WiFi network launches in downtown
March 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The San Jose free WiFi network is now up and running in the city’s downtown area. The city partnered with SmartWave Technologies (systems integrator) and Ruckus Wireless (vendor of WiFi access points) for this project. The city paid $94,000 for the infrastructure deployment and will pay $22,000 in annual maintenance costs. The wireless network relies [...]
Municipal corporation in India needs WiMAX AMR system
March 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A municipal corporation in Surat, Gujarat, India is looking for a WiMAX system for automated meter reading (AMR) of water meters. There are about 9000 water meters of different sizes installed at present. In 2013-20414 they want to install 20,000 more meters. The city area is 335 square kilometres and they would like turnkey solution [...]
