MuniWireless

Coshocton County, Ohio has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the construction of a wireless broadband network to serve businesses, residents, and specified County owned facilities throughout the county. The primary goal of this RFP is to find a provider that can deliver wireless broadband access to parts of the county that do not have broadband. In addition, the county will use the network for its own operations.

Proposals should be submitted to Coshocton County Commissioners Office, 401 ½ Main…

Statesboro, Georgia has issued a Request for Proposals, seeking an ISP to build and operate a citywide wireless network for educational, residential, commercial, municipal and public safety use. Initially the network will be used primarily for public safety, remote work order management, Digital Inclusion, residential and student Internet access.

According to the RFP, the city “prefers to own the network infrastructure, since it intends to pay for the cost of the infrastructure, using the grant that it received from the State…

Twenty-two vendors have responded to the Request for Proposals (RFP) issued by the Gainesville Regional Utility in November 2007.

1. Solutrea Inc. 2. CONXX, Inc. 3. Presidio 4. Northrop Grumman 5. Sentinel Technologies, Inc. 6. CSG DATA Networks, Inc. 7. Honeywell International, Inc. 8. Federal Signal Corporation 9. Coleman Technologies, Inc. 10. Big Wireless 11. MetroFi, Inc. 12. Integral Wireless Solutions 13. AFL Telecommunications 14. Alcatel-Lucent 15. IBM and Nortel 16. Motorola, Inc. 17. M/A-COM, Inc. 18. Adesta, LLC 19. Systems…

The city of Grande Prairie (pop. 50,000) in Alberta, Canada has just completed a feasibility study and is expected to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) by the end of April 2008 for the deployment of a wireless network that will cover most of the city. The city wants the network to support a variety of municipal applications such as emergency response, transit and automated vehicle monitoring systems, public safety, and wireless cameras. It may include public Internet access for…

Gainesville Regional Utility, a public utility owned by the city of Gainesville, Florida has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for a wireless network that will be used for traffic synchronization, public safety and public Internet access. Gainesville Regional Utility (GRU), a municipal utility owned by the City of Gainesville, FL, has released an RFP for a wireless network that will be used for the following applications:

Traffic synchronization: Gainesville will acquire 200 IP-based traffic signal controllers (Models 980 and 981)…