MuniWireless

A lot has been made recently of 1G fiber optic connections being wired up into people’s homes.  Here in Cleveland the Case Connection Zone project will be conducting research on what exactly would someone DO with all this bandwidth?   1G connections will be placed into 104 homes and apartments on Hessler St. – and the class I’m teaching at CWRU will help provide the software to those residents.

In San Francisco the city is installing fiber into some public housing blocks, as…

Showing the Obama administration’s ongoing committment to open government, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and Rural Utilities Services (RUS) launched an online searchable database of the applications received for stimulus funds, the first tranche of funding under the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) and Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP).

Click here for the database website.

According to our friends at Bingham McCutchen, the database does not yet include paper application or applications received under the State Broadband Data and Development Program.

Two afternoon panels Tuesday at the 4GWE conference here in Los Angeles made it clear that software developers, and not carriers, will drive innovation when it comes to 4G wireless applications of the future. The big, unanswered question is if, how and when two very different camps — developers and service providers — will work together in a fashion profitable for both camps.

There was more than a little animosity on display during the panel talks, and perhaps it was a…

Golden Gate Ferries has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for Wi-Fi service on board the ferries between San Francisco and Sausalito as well as Larkspur. Golden Gate Ferries will not pay any money for the deployment of the network, but will allow the Wi-Fi operator to charge for the service. The term of the contract is five years with two additional one-year options to extend the agreement. The deadline for submitting responses is 11 August 2009 at 14:00 Pacific…