MuniWireless

As I sit here at the United Nations attending a U.N. sponsored event entitled United Nations Meets Web 2.0 and ICT Entrepreneurs, I am reminded of the movie Groundhog Day where Bill Murray’s character, Phil Connors, is given innumerable days to put all the pieces together to ultimately win the affection of his co-anchor. I am a speaker at this event where I explain the role that broadband wireless can play in the development of an emerging country. Everyone in…

The U.S. may have no national initiative to deploy broadband at home but it is succeeding in bringing broadband to the tiny eastern European country of Macedonia. A $3.9 million project of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) claims to have made Macedonia the first wireless country in the world.The U.S. may have no national initiative to deploy broadband at home but it is succeeding in bringing broadband to the tiny eastern European country of Macedonia. A $3.9 million…