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MetroFi Plans Market Exit: Sale or Shutter

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2008-05-15 21:47:12 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
MetroFi will sell its networks, but plans to shutter if there are no buyers: Ah, folks, the trifecta has arrived, and I'm nothing but sad about it. MetroFi's chief Chuck Haas emailed me this evening with the news that his firm has decided that they will sell their networks in nine cities, including their first cities in the Bay Area (Cupertino,...
 
Tags: metro-scale wi-fi, wi-fi, large-city wi-fi network, wi-fi providers, wi-fi network, york wi-fi plan, city, city dollars, super-fast wi-fi network
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Portland Coverage of MetroFi; Boston's Measured Pace

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2008-05-19 13:10:08 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...MetroFi's network there: As I reported last week, MetroFi plans to sell or shutdown the nine networks it operates on its own; I don't have a status on Riverside, Calif., where they act as an AT&T contractor. The Oregonian's Mike Rogoway notes that the city's expense includes a $250,000 feasibility study and the cost of a staffer who manages...
 
Tags: metrofi, metrofi plans, notes, mike rogoway notes, network, network exception, city, skypilot nodes, skypilot
 
 
 
 
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Portland's MetroFi Nodes Still Hanging on

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2008-08-08 22:08:25 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...MetroFi's base station: Although MetroFi posted a $30,000 bond against removal of its antennas, the cost could be $90,000 if the company winds up with insufficient assets to roll down the network. The city could pare that figure by using its own crews for removing nodes from traffic signals, but that would still leave $36,000 on the table....
 
Tags: metrofi, nodes, company winds, city, traffic signals, paper notes, oregonian notes, insufficient assets, base station
 
 
 
 
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Santa Clara Takes over Its MetroFi Network

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2008-07-24 11:13:47 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...MetroFi network for meter reading: The city might also expand free public access. Advertisements will be removed as well as logins. This action is a far cry from the last time a firm said they were withdrawing from a wireless business that had spread nodes all over Santa Clara (that would be Metricom's Ricochet network). With Ricochet, users...
 
Tags: network, santa clara, santa clara takes, metrofi network, ricochet, ricochet network, public access adapters, proprietary modems, city
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: In-Depth on Muni-Fi; Portland (Ore.) Update; Ferry-Fi Price Change

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2008-04-21 16:33:57 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...MetroFi's stalled network: The city of Portland alerted MetroFi in February that it considers the company "in default of contract," according to the (Portland) Oregonian. MetroFi told the paper that his firm won't be finishing the network without "financial support form the city and left open the possibility MetroFi will shut off the entire...
 
Tags: wi-fi, municipal wi-fi, city-wide wi-fi, city, portland, metrofi, possibility metrofi, municipal, ferry wi-fi adjusts
 
 
 
 
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Metro Round-Up: Aurora (Ill.), Bay Area (Calif.), Santa Fe Says Yes-Fi

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2008-06-12 10:13:56 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...MetroFi cities turning down gear deal: Aurora, the city of light, the first electrified streetlit city in the U.S., opts to not buy the MetroFi gear. Along with all of MetroFi's other networks (excluding Riverside, Calif., operated with AT&T), June 20 will likely be the last day of service. About 160 of 600 to 900 nodes were installed in...
 
Tags: santa, metrofi, metrofi gear, joins metrofi cities, aurora, service, downtown service, approve wi-fi service, santa clara
 
 
 
 
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Metro Round-Up: Phila., Minneapolis, St. Louis Park (Minn.), Texas, Foster City (Calif.), Naperville (Ill.), Chehalis and Centralia (Wash.), Cambria C

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2008-06-11 14:33:41 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...MetroFi is unlighting its cities, and Foster City opted not to spend the nearly $200,000 asking price MetroFi put on its equipment. MetroFi might still find a buyer, but June 20 is the network's current final day. Naperville, Ill., also expects a June 20 shutdown . They, too, were offered the network hardware for 200 grand Chehalis lights up:...
 
Tags: city, big-city network, residents oppose wi-fi, wi-fi, mount wi-fi radios, wi-fi hotzones, wi-fi network, network, network hardware
 
 
 
 
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Portland's Network Gets Shut Off Date

2008-06-19 12:14:16 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...MetroFi told the city that it will turn its network off on June 30, and remove all devices by about July 30. MetroFi's business model required most of its revenue to come from advertising shown to users of the network; they also offered ad-free service, and business services. The network never reached a scale in Portland with enough reach to...
 
Tags: network, wi-fi network, portland, metrofi, business services, services, wi-fi networks, death knell, users
 
 
 
 
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Three Essays on Muni-Fi You Should Read

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2008-05-20 12:50:08 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...MetroFi, announcing its metro-scale Wi-Fi endgame, three useful essays have appeared: If you're trying to understand the past, present, and future of the space, I recommend you read these short opinion pieces First, Karl Edwards of Excelsio, a firm that consults on municipal broadband, lays out a pretty straight case as to why EarthLink,...
 
Tags: ocean city, wi-fi, wi-fi service, city, york city, offer free wi-fi, percent, city set, 90-plus percent coverage
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Fon Founder Profiled; Creative No-Fi; Inspiair Physics-Fi; Foster City-Fi

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2008-05-27 13:17:25 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...MetroFi equipment offer: The city decided against paying $200,000 for MetroFi's gear, which serves about 1,500 people a month, partly because yearly operations would top $125,000
 
Tags: fon, fon founder, foster city, fon locations, city, martin varsavsky, varsavsky, article, article