MuniWireless

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors this week postponed a review of a decision to exempt the city’s proposed municipal WiFi network from full review under the California Environmental Quality Act until July 24.San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors this week postponed a review of a decision to exempt the city’s proposed municipal WiFi network from full review under the California Environmental Quality Act until July 24.

This is the appeal by the San Francisco Neighborhood Antenna Free Union (SNAFU) of the city…

Blogs are buzzing about AT&T’s Tuesday unveiling of its wireless municipal network in Riverside, Ca. as the telco’s first major foray into the muni space. With one down, the telco has other deployments pending in Napa, Ca., and St. Louis, Mo., and appears to be making a hard run for Chicago’s planned deployment.Blogs are buzzing about AT&T’s Tuesday unveiling of its wireless municipal network in Riverside, Ca. as the telco’s first major deployment in the muni space. We’ve written a…

New Jersey’s lively shore town, OceanCity (one of those made famous by the Sopranos), plans to deploy a wireless network across its streets and beaches to serve the dense population of tourists who pour into town in the summer with laptops in tow. You’ve read about the RFP. Now watch the video.

As early as next summer, tourists visiting OceanCity. New Jersey, could be ordering Wi-Fi Internet access along with the state’s famous “shore foods”–sausage and peppers, tasty garlic crabs, and…

If you ever wanted a hard lesson on why the use of proprietary wireless technology is an extremely bad idea, look no further than New York City. I’ve seen estimates that the cost to wireless the entire city of New York would run $15-20 million. That’s not chump change, but it’s not a lot of money for a city budget the size of New York’s either.If you ever wanted a hard lesson on why the use of proprietary wireless technology…

You can download my December 2006 list of US cities and counties that are deploying wide-area wireless broadband networks. You can download my December 2006 list of US cities and counties that are deploying wide-area wireless broadband networks. The list is in PDF format. If you want to cite to the data in this list for your publication, please give Muniwireless.com credit in your article.

I posted the original article with tables here.

Download the PDF from here: http://www.muniwireless.com/reports/docs/Dec-29-2006summary.pdf

St. Cloud got the top honors because it has 100% service availability, delivered good performance throughout the community, and is free and easy to use. St. Cloud (Florida) was ranked no. 1 in the US among metro Wi-Fi cities by Novarum, a consulting firm established by Phil Belanger (formerly of BelAir Networks) and Ken Biba (formerly of Vivato). St. Cloud got the top honors because it has 100% service availability throughout the community, delivered good performance across town and is…