The city of Pleasant Hill, California, hopes a public-private partnership will help it extend Wi-Fi service to its residents and, at the same time, save $390,000 in public funds originally targeted for upgrades to its wireless public safety network.The city of Pleasant Hill, California, hopes a public-private partnership will help it extend Wi-Fi service to [...]

Tom Ridge, the former secretary of U.S. Homeland Security, is calling for the creation of a nationwide wireless public-safety network to operate in the 700 MHz band. “Why would we not — in a post 911 world — want to create a nationwide, broadband network for public safety users across the country?” he asks.Tom Ridge, [...]

Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network says it will form two wireless users groups to collaborate with design teams in designing the network and exploring applications to run on it.Earlier this week we reported that San Carlos and Palo Alto, California, have agreed to serve as test cities for the proposed Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network [...]