MuniWireless

Novarum has just written an 8-page white paper titled “2010: Guidelines for Successful Large Scale Outdoor Wi-Fi Networks” which contains recommendations to service providers on what makes a successful large-scale outdoor Wi-Fi network today. These recommendations are based upon Novarum’s work between 2006 and 2009 testing over 175 wireless networks in 36 North American cities. Last April 2009, PC World published Novarum’s test results for 3G networks in the US. Earlier in February 2009, Ken Biba, one of Novarum’s founders,…

Mumbai, India will be issuing a public tender in August inviting companies to bid for the deployment of a citywide Wi-Fi network. The city does not want to spend any public funds on the project (sounds like SF, Philadelphia and Houston). Anyway, the wireless network will be an intranet, which people can use to communicate with one another. They want to get the network up and running within six months, which I find too ambitious. We have already seen how…

Lompoc, California is trying to make its citywide wireless broadband service work harder by attracting and keeping more customers. The city has replaced its previous network management system with a new one from Aptilo and claims that Aptilo’s system now allows to city to manage its network better, including being able identify where problems occur, when customers call in. The city has also stopped using outside firms to manage the network. Now, instead of needing 4000 subscribers to break even,…