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Dead, Dead, Dead: Cities Accept Muni-Fi's Absence

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2008-04-20 12:54:28 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...muni-Fi effort: Symbolically, a display celebrating the kickoff the city-wide Wi-Fi network built by NeoReach-cum-Kite-cum-Gobility is falling apart in front of the mayor's office, the reporter notes. I have to add "stucco" to the list of quotidian problems that tripped up metro-scale Wi-Fi. In many parts of the U.S., stucco isn't in a...
 
Tags: wi-fi network, city-wide wi-fi network, city, oklahoma city, dollars, city manager, taxpayer dollars, reporter notes, balloon wood frames
 
 
 
 
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Mobile Post: The End of Muni-Fi As We Know It

2008-05-16 15:29:53 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
MetroFi's plan to sell or shutter its networks spells end of first muni-Fi era: But it's not the end of municipal wireless
 
Tags: municipal wireless, networks spells, muni-fi era, metrofi, shutter, plan
 
 
 
 
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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
...municipal broadband, lays out a pretty straight case as to why EarthLink, Kite, and MetroFi's networks, among other one-offs, were designed to fail. I've written about aspects of this over the last four years, but Edwards is succinct. In part, EarthLink offering to build Philadelphia's network at no cost to the city set the mold wrong for all...
 
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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Excellent addition to Information Security Blogging Community

2007-11-21 18:43:11 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
My good friend, Muni Tripathi has started blogging on Information Security. You can read his blog about security at http://muni-on-security.blogspot.com
 
Tags: security, information security, muni tripathi, friend, blogspot, blog
 
 
 
 
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Minneapolis Gets a Workout

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2008-03-29 17:19:55 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...muni netwrk planning This article goes into a little more depth about the problems with dead areas due to absent or problematic utility poles (it's always about the poles). USIW plans to install some of its own poles to fill in those areas Nearby, Steve Alexander notes a pioneering wireless network at the University of Minnesota has become...
 
Tags: network, network indoors, minneapolis, wireless network, poles, problematic utility poles, 11b network, networks, wi-fi networks
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: The New Muni-Fi; Akron Ecstatic; State Park-Fi; Transport-Fi

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2008-04-11 12:43:00 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...munities: This week brings $61m in funding to efforts to put affordable broadband with useful purposes in communities across the U.S., Wired reports, between a $36m grant from AT&T and its foundation to One Economy, and a $25m effort by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. As Wired notes, One Economy will bring broadband to 500,000...
 
Tags: akron, foundation, knight foundation, offer internet access, internet access, project, center, knight center, communities
 
 
 
 
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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
...municipal Wi-Fi for Network World: This article thoroughly goes over what failed in rolling out city-wide Wi-Fi, and what kinds of networks seem to be playing out successfully so far. There's not enough history with nearly any of the "successful" networks out there, but building networks designed primarily for municipal or public safety...
 
Tags: wi-fi, municipal wi-fi, city-wide wi-fi, city, portland, metrofi, possibility metrofi, municipal, ferry wi-fi adjusts
 
 
 
 
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EarthLink Will Shutter Philadelphia Network, Company Says

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2008-05-13 09:48:07 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...muni-Fi business, represents the end of a bad model in which a company agreed to assume all risk and costs associated with building a public access network. When the assumptions were that networks would be cheaper and easier to build in 2005, and that citizens in many larger cities had few affordable broadband options, it made some sense to...
 
Tags: network, wi-fi, philadelphia wi-fi network, earthlink, network provider, philadelphia, public access network, company, earthlink filed
 
 
 
 
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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
...muni deployment in Portland, Ore. If no buyers emerge--including the cities in question--Haas said that MetroFi would have a shutdown plan for gradually unlighting the networks MetroFi was one of the three most prominent pure play metro-scale Wi-Fi firms, if you count EarthLink's municipal wireless division as a separate operation, and Kite...
 
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
...muni-Fi: An op-ed by Brian Worobey of the Museum of Science in Boston notes that the local non-profit's slow pace--accidental, he notes, as it intended to roll out faster--could produce more information and a better result than the many failed all-at-once attempts for deployment. My current line on this is that Wi-Fi's likely utility in a...
 
Tags: metrofi, metrofi plans, notes, mike rogoway notes, network, network exception, city, skypilot nodes, skypilot