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Aurora, Illinois has issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking responses from companies that may be interested in deploying a free or low-cost citywide Wi-Fi network. Last month, MetroFi told the city that it would shut down the city’s Wi-Fi network because the costs were too high and the return on investment too uncertain. Only 20 percent of Aurora has Wi-Fi coverage (via MetroFi’s network). The purpose of the RFI is to gather information about the kinds of services that…

Two more free public Wi-Fi networks are on the shelf. MetroFi will not be building out free muni networks in Aurora and Naperville, Ill., after the communities decided not to also contract with the company to build public safety networks. It raises the question: What new business models are emerging?

This is just the latest development in a trend that exposed the fundamental flaw in the public-private model so many cities and their potential partners tried to embrace–the idea that ad…

Phase: Deploying

Vendors: MetroFi

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Main Contact: Denise Graab

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Notes: Public safety, digital inclusion

See more: Aurora, Illinois

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Phase: Deployed

Vendors: NetMotion Wireless and Wavelink’s management software

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Main Contact:

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Notes: Public safety officers will be able to maintain a secure and constant connection to information while patrolling Aurora’s 145 square mile area as well as easily update information to and from the City’s central servers

See more: Aurora, Colorado

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Naperville, Illinois, planned to coordinate deployment of its municipal wireless network with that of neighboring Aurora, but pole attachments are complicating the story. Their story shows how no one size fits all in muni-wireless.Naperville, Illinois, planned to coordinate deployment of its municipal wireless network with that of neighboring Aurora, but pole attachments are complicating the story. Their story shows how no one size fits all in muni-wireless.

The Herald-News has an interesting story about Naperville’s effort to bring up the first…