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The mayor of Pittsburgh, Pa., next week is expected to issued a request for information from companies with ideas about how to offer free Internet access across the city.The mayor of Pittsburgh, Pa., next week is expected to issued a request for information from companies with ideas about how to offer free Internet access across the city.

The proposal great expands the free downtown wireless Internet hot zone that went live last fall. The hot zone is operated by US Wireless…

Altoona, Pennsylvania is looking for a vendor to perform a network site survey and draft an RFP that the city will submit to the vendor community for a citywide wireless mesh network to be used for municipal purposes. Altoona, Pennsylvania (pop. 49,000; 10 square miles) invites consultants to submit responses to its Request for Proposal (RFP) to furnish Wireless Meshed Broadband Wide Area Network Site Survey and Design Professional Services. Proposals should include pricing for analysis, site survey, design, documentation,…

San Marcos, Texas has issued a public tender seeking a partner to deploy a citywide wireless broadband network. The network will be used for Internet access and municipal applications such as automated meter reading. As announced last March 2007, the City of San Marcos (25 square miles) has released a Request for Proposals (RFP) on 1 July 2007 seeking a partner to build a wireless broadband network for public Internet access and municipal applications such as automated meter reading. that…

A recent New Scientist article says that muni Wi-Fi in the US is off to a bad start. The article bases its conclusion on a few delays in major cities such as Philadelphia and San Francisco. The truth is more complicated but the mainstream press like to reduce complex issues to sensational screaming headlines.The New Scientist posted an article on 24 June 2007 entitled American Wi-Fi gets off to a bad start. What led the author to this conclusion? A…

Sacramento has chosen Metro Connect, the same consortium that won the Silicon Valley wireless project, to build a citywide wireless broadband network that is scheduled to go live in 2009. The Sacramento city council has chosen Metro Connect LLC, a joint venture of Cisco, Intel, SeaKay and Azulstar, to deploy a citywide Wi-Fi network that is scheduled to go live in autumn 2009. The city will be an anchor tenant; it will buy broadband access from Metro Connect.

There is free…

The city of San Marcos, Texas, is giving potential bidders plenty of notice of its upcoming tender. The city announced this week that it will put out an RFP on July 1.The city of San Marcos, Texas, is giving potential bidders plenty of notice about its upcoming tender. The city announced this week that it will put out an RFP next month.

Look for the RFP for Wireless Broadband Network Services to be posted online July 1 at are due by…