The Thai government will be expanding the free WiFi network which started in Bangkok, to the rest of the country by 2013. Eighty percent of Thailand will have access to free WiFi. The government is investing $27 million dollars for the project and is partnering with Thai mobile operators to make this happen. At present, [...]
The central business district in Perth, Australia now offers free WiFi service, thanks to local company aCure Technology. The network uses the SSID “metromesh”. The WiFi network has been in operation in the Perth CBD as a paid service since 2006. It is being used as a test bed for Acurix Network’s range of wireless equipment [...]
Virgin Media has been chosen by the UK government to create giant WiFi hot zones in the city centres of Leeds and Bradford to provide free WiFi service to the public (not clear if they have a premium, paid access service as well). You do not have to be a customer of Virgin Mobile to [...]
The city of Adelaide plans to offer free WiFi service in the city centre around Rundle Mall and Victoria Square with the Riverbank precinct becoming “unwired” by the end of 2013. The service will help people who own smartphones check their email, view maps, and use social media without running up against their mobile operators’ [...]
The city of Chicago has answered 134 questions submitted by prospective respondents to the Broadband Infrastructure Expansion RFI, whose goal is to get private firms to use the city’s existing wired broadband infrastructure, city-owned facilities and parks to improve wired and wireless broadband service to the city’s residents and businesses. I reviewed the Q&A and [...]
The city of Chicago has launched an initiative that could revive the city’s moribund muni Wi-Fi plans and its even older Chicago Civic Net project (launched in 2003). UPDATE: For those of you who weren’t born yet, I posted the Chicago Civic Net RFP on 25 June 2003 when Muniwireless was barely a few weeks old, [...]
ABB, a power and automation technology firm, announced that Tropos Networks (which ABB recently acquired) will supply Kansas City Power & Light Company (KCP&L) with a wireless communication network for KCP&L’s SmartGrid Demonstration Program. Tropos’ GridCom® wireless IP mesh network will extend the KCP&L SmartGrid IP network to reclosers, capacitors and fault indicators in the [...]
Editor’s note: The following post is from former MuniWireless contributor Paul Kapustka, who now runs a site called Mobile Sports Report. Their latest report takes an in-depth look at “The Connected Event Dilemma,” which happens when thousands of attendees overwhelm the wireless infrastructure at big events. Read on. It’s no secret to any cell phone [...]
Communities should roll out and own their broadband networks Sascha Meinrath, long-time contributor to MuniWireless and frequent speaker at our conferences, has written an article with Christopher Mitchell, entitled “Want to Pay Less and Get More” about how the model of community-owned broadband networks allow people to pay less money for better and faster broadband service, [...]
Makati City in the Philippines is working with Philippine Long Distance and Telephone (PLDT) to bring citywide WiFi to residents and visitors. Details are sketchy but it appears that Makati is working with PLDT which already has subscription-based Wi-Fi service around metro Manila and in other cities in the Philippines. The network will use Makati’s [...]
