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Corpus Christi Cuts EarthLink's Cord

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2008-04-14 15:46:27 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...municipal purposes, such as meter reading, and was sold to EarthLink for $5.3m plus $340,000 in other revenues, the local paper reports. The sale was reported back in March 2007 as a way for the city to gain better coverage without investing their own money and recoup some of their expense. EarthLink did complete the network in August, but...
 
Tags: support municipal purposes, municipal purposes, earthlink, municipal, municipal networks based, corpus christi, network, wi-fi network, city council
 
 
 
 
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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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MetroFi Plans Market Exit: Sale or Shutter

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2008-05-15 21:47:12 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...municipal wireless division as a separate operation, and Kite Networks, which was a subsidiary of a larger telecom firm. Each company had made a unique network hardware choice--MetroFi, SkyPilot; Kite, Strix; and EarthLink Tropos plus Motorola--and each had a sort of specialty. Interestingly, a fifth firm, BelAir powers Toronto (a small but...
 
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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Toronto Columnists: City Owned Exclusive Broadband a Good Deal

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2008-03-31 13:50:27 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...municipal Wi-Fi was in its infancy was the problem of building a broadband network that used taxpayer dollars to improve the lot of some citizens, often those who could afford a variety of broadband options. Plans that used city budgets to reduce costs for telecom or provide municipal services are more egalitarian, and seem to have won the...
 
Tags: city, broadband, city budgets, city departments, city-wide fibrewireless network, broadband options, implement universal broadband, network, broadband firm
 
 
 
 
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Seven Years of Wi-Fi Networking News

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2008-04-04 15:10:45 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...municipal networks, the change in consumer equipment from expensive and slow to cheap and fast, the growth of the enterprise market, the phoenix-like in-flight calling/broadband market, and, more recently, cellular and WiMax technology Enterprise coverage was once a central part of Wi-Fi Networking News, but it became clear a few years ago...
 
Tags: wi-fi, wi-fi hotspot giant, municipal wi-fi, wi-fi signal finder, wi-fi world, world, 11b-later-wi-fi site, 11b, news
 
 
 
 
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Metro Round-Up: OpenAirBOston

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2008-04-14 11:12:29 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...municipal projects were proceeding, on hold, or dead across the U.S., and I wasn't very impressed by the way in which Wired presented this material in their print issue . But never fear! Online, paired with Google Maps, his research is tremendously accessible. It's now a few weeks out of date, but still useful for the scope and locations of...
 
Tags: projects, comparable projects, network, municipal projects, wi-fi network, island project, city-wide network, true, pilot projects
 
 
 
 
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Ask the Auditor: Who is Responsible for Information Security?

2007-12-29 06:24:50 by Editor in Security Links
 
...municipal levels, and the rest in the private sector, mainly in the financial services, transportation, and health sectors Source http://www.itcinstitute.com/display.aspx?id=1823
 
Tags: information, information security, information policy, information security risks, information assurance, information security governance, information security managers, information security management, assign information security
 
 
 
 
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New York Times Taunts Long Island Effort, E-Path

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2008-04-15 10:53:58 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...municipal commitment for the purchase of services means no network will be built. I'm not saying that Wi-Fi is the answer or any answer, but it's become clear that if a city can't move some of its dollars from one vendor to a Wi-Fi provider in order to secure service, there's no way a network gets built. (See: everywhere From left to right:...
 
Tags: logo taxpayer dollars, taxpayer dollars, times, fewer taxpayer dollars, logo, dollars, wi-fi, wi-fi network, times editorial board
 
 
 
 
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EarthLink Shutters New Orleans, Staunches Own Losses

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2008-04-25 15:52:07 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...municipal write-off is lower, too, as they've taken most of the expense, and have offloaded more and more of their future obligations The company still has the same problem that it had before it started unwinding its services beyond dial-up and broadband: None of its markets are expanding, and it has increasingly poor access to reasonably...
 
Tags: earthlink, slightly lower churn, slightly, lower, loss, increasingly poor access, earnings, drop, noticeable drop
 
 
 
 
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Colorado Communities Consider How to Move Forward

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2008-05-01 14:31:16 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...municipal service commitments appear to be unworkable and unsustainable
 
Tags: colorado communities, communities, move forward, offer anchor tenancy, service purchase guarantees, single firm, unworkable, proposal unworkable, firm