MuniWireless

Wireless Silicon Valley is still on, despite all the bad news about MetroFi’s decision to pull out of Portland, Oregon and other cities. The city of San Carlos will be the first municipality to get unwired after the city council gave its approval. Covad, the city’s Internet provider, just happens to be Wireless Silicon Valley’s partner in the project. We’ll see if they get beyond San Carlos. One of the problems with Silicon Valley is that it is spread out…

Unable to raise the capital needed to fund the ambitious Wireless Silicon Valley regional network, Azulstar is out as the project’s lead contractor. The consortium behind the project, headed by IBM and Cisco, evidently has not given up on the plan to unwire 40 cities. But, at this point, is it even doable? Unable to raise the capital needed to fund the ambitious Wireless Silicon Valley regional network, Azulstar is out as the project’s lead contractor.

IDG news interviewed Azulstar ’s…

Free Wi-Fi is likely to remain a dream in Sacramento and Silicon Valley longer than expected. The problem? Money. Investment capital to be precise. The non-profit groups, charged with raising the necessary capital, have been unable to line up the investments needed to move the projects forward.

We reported a while back on the difficulty that Sacramento Metro Connect was having lining up the $7-9 million needed to finance the deployment. The situation evidently has not improved. And data in a…

The Wall Street Journal article on Wireless Silicon Valley raises more questions than it answers. Cisco says they’re still in, but IBM, the systems integrator for the project, did not respond to the WSJ’s inquiries. Meanwhile, Azulstar, the other partner in this project, has trouble in Rio Rancho.The Wall Street Journal article on Wireless Silicon Valley raises more questions than it answers. Cisco says they’re still in, but IBM, the systems integrator for the project, did not respond to the…

Santa Clara County and six cities in northern California are conducting a cost-benefit analysis in a major review of muni wireless to determine their participation in Wireless Silicon Valley.Santa Clara County and six cities in northern California are conducting a cost-benefit analysis in a major review of muni wireless to determine their participation in Wireless Silicon Valley.

Palo Alto, Campbell, San Jose, Santa Clara, Mountain View, and Milpitas are participating in the review. Wireless Silicon Valley proposes to unwire 44 cities…