MuniWireless

On Fridays from 8am – 10am San Francisco time, Esme Vos will be taking calls from people who are looking to deploy: (a) large scale wireless networks (Wi-Fi, WiMAX, etc.); (b) fiber networks; (c) blend of fiber and wireless. If you are a city, county, government agency, Native American tribe, school, hospital, hotel and convention complex, port, industrial zone, community wireless group and anyone else interested, please call me at +1 650 384 5200.

Why should you call?

- If you are…

Amtrak has issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for a communications platform including passenger Wi-Fi in its trains all over the US. Amtrak will issue another RFQ shortly after this one to support automated on-board signage, announcements and end-of-car displays that use the communications platform. Then it will issue a national task order RFP. Below is an excerpt from the RFQ.

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1. Purpose of Request for Qualifications (RFQ)

Amtrak is seeking to identify a complete…

If your BTOP or BIP broadband stimulus grant application was rejected in Round 1, contact us now for help in getting your Round 2 application done. I’ve been getting a number of calls and emails from people who are in a panic, and I have helped them get up to speed with their Round 2 grant application.

The new deadlines is in less than 2 weeks (15 March 2010) are 26 March 2010 for BTOP Comprehensive Community Infrastructure Projects; 29 March 2010 for…

The Q4 2009 numbers are in and they are good for Clearwire: According to its press release, Clearwire added 87,000 net new subscribers during the fourth quarter of 2009, meeting the company’s predicted goal of adding more new users in the last 90 days than during the entire previous three quarters of 2009.

Clearwire also broke out wholesale subscriber numbers for the first time, claiming that partners Sprint Nextel, Comcast and Time Warner Cable combined to add 46,000 additional 4G subscribers…

Dubai operator, Du, has completed the deployment of its WiMAX backhaul network which provides Wi-Fi service to passengers on the Dubai metro. Du charges for Wi-Fi access on the trains and in other locations around Dubai via recharge cards or credit cards. This is an interesting model for WiMAX operators in other countries since most people do not have portable WiMAX devices. Du uses Motorola WiMAX equipment; Mobiserve provided the implementation and engineering services for the project.

The NTIA has made more announcements today concerning grant recipients in California, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. The ten grants, totaling $357 million, will bring high-speed Internet access to millions of households and businesses, and link up thousands of schools, hospitals, libraries and public safety offices.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke traveled to Pittsburgh and Wheeling (VA) today to make these announcements.

“In a globalized 21st century economy, when you don’t have regular access to the Internet, you don’t have access to all the educational and…