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“Broadband projects will be part of the $1 trillion stimulus plan. That has set off a debate among lobbyists, tech companies, and congressional leaders.” This excerpt from a BusinessWeek column today sums up perfectly the potential fatal flaw in the race to create a broadband-related economic stimulus plan.

A cardinal rule for deploying technology applications successfully within organizations is that, before spending millions of dollars, you do a thorough analysis of what end users need AND how they will use the…

Ponca City, Oklahoma has deployed a municipal wireless broadband network that combines wireless automated meters (AMR) with free Wi-Fi for residents. The citywide wireless broadband project builds on the wireless meters and automated meter infrastructure (AMI) that Honeywell has installed for the city to reduce energy costs by 10 percent and save the municipality approximately $1.3 million in annual operating costs.

Honeywell is deploying 490 wireless mesh nodes and gateways Tropos Networks to cover 30 square miles (78 square kilometers). The…

The Wall Street Journal has an article on cities in the US where large-scale Wi-Fi networks have been deployed and are being used: Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, San Francisco and Philadelphia. Oklahoma City’s network is devoted to public safety, Minneapolis is a mixed-used network. In both cases, the city is paying for its use of the network (in the case of Minneapolis, the provider makes extra money by charging for access).

San Francisco is not really the municipality’s project. Rather, a mesh…

New website includes WiMAX section and maps of WiFi and WiMAX deployments worldwide.

San Francisco, CA. (PRWEB) December 3, 2008 — MuniWireless (http://www.muniwireless.com) (the leading source of news and analysis about municipal wireless broadband networks) has launched its new web site that covers citywide deployments of WiFi networks worldwide. MuniWireless has added a new WiMAX section (http://www.muniwireless.com/wimax) and acquired the domain name, www.muniwimax.com to address the growing interest in this technology for infrastructure deployment in major cities.

Paul Kapustka, founder of Sidecut…

The 2009 MuniWireless / Muni WiMAX media kit is here. We offer:

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Download the MuniWireless MuniWimax 2009 media kit from here.

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