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Cisco Outdoor Wireless Mesh Enables Alternative Broadband Access
White Paper A citywide Wi-Fi network can be an effective way to deliver broadband Internet access to a variety of customers. Cisco Aironet 1500 Series outdoor wireless mesh products make it practical to deploy and manage Wi-Fi on a citywide scale. [13 Jun 2008]
Will Apple's iPhone drive citywide wi-fi?
News Apple's iPhone and other wi-fi enabled handsets coming into the market could boost demand for citywide wi-fi networks, said experts at the MuniWireless conference. Bill Gurley, a general partner at the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital, told... [24 Oct 2007]
Free muni wi-fi projects a pipe dream?
News Chicago, whose main objective was building a network to provide ubiquitous and affordable broadband access, said earlier it has halted its plans for a citywide wi-fi project after it couldn't come to terms with demands made by AT&T and EarthLink... [03 Sep 2007]
Free wi-fi to blanket San Fran?
News While EarthLink and Google are still hammering out details of their citywide wi-fi contract with San Francisco officials, a company called Meraki plans on blanketing the city with free wi-fi using volunteers who will deploy and manage the... [15 Aug 2007]
Urban wireless networks set to surge
News Explosive expansion in the number of citywide wireless networks is being predicted as local government and ISPs get switched on to the opportunities ubiquitous wi-fi can offer - economic and otherwise. [26 Jul 2007]
Wi-fi success in the City not all about Cloud density
News The City of London's wi-fi network, which launched today, is one of the densest citywide wireless networks in the world. The network density compares favourably to other cities around the world that have also embraced citywide wi-fi, such as Taipei... [23 Apr 2007]
Mobile broadband: Too energy inefficient?
News Instead, suggests the report by ABI Research - which is entitled Energy Efficiency Analysis for Mobile Broadband Solutions - operators may be forced to integrate WiMax and citywide (or metro) wi-fi into their networks. [15 Jan 2007]
Vonage taps into EarthLink's citywide wi-fi
News Internet phone company Vonage said it plans to use EarthLink's citywide wi-fi infrastructure to provide wireless broadband service along with its voice over IP service to US customers. The companies have signed a three-year deal in which Vonage... [09 Jan 2007]
EarthLink CEO loses cancer battle
News As regulatory changes prompted EarthLink to look for new ways to deliver its broadband service, Betty crusaded to bring citywide wi-fi to residents of several US cities and towns, including New Orleans, Philadelphia and San Francisco. [04 Jan 2007]
Manchester plans UK's biggest citywide wi-fi network
News Manchester City Council has unveiled plans for a free citywide wi-fi network which will cover 90 per cent of the Greater Manchester area. W is for Wi-fi The Mancunian wi-fi initiative is inspired by programmes in San Francisco and Amsterdam, which... [01 Dec 2006]
Financial Assessment of Citywide Wi-Fi / WiMAX Deployment
White Paper This paper proposes a service model (both data and voice) that uses two emerging wireless technologies (Wi-Fi and WiMAX) to deliver cost-effective broadband services. The paper focuses on the techno-economic modelling of Wi-Fi hot zones into a... [08 Nov 2006]
Cash pouring into citywide wi-fi
News Interest among US cities and counties to deploy their own public wireless networks is exceeding earlier expectations, said Esme Vos, founder of MuniWireless.com, which tracks the citywide wi-fi market. [26 Oct 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for wi-fi in Norwich
Comment But there was still no citywide street coverage as far as I could detect. Written in a coffee shop in Norwich and despatched to silicon.com via the UK's first free municipal wi-fi network. Only one coffee shop out of 20 in the city centre seemed at... [30 Aug 2006]
Municipal Wi-Fi: In Search of a Rationale
White Paper Local governments have been active in rolling-out or announcing plans to build citywide wireless networks to provide high speed internet access to residents and businesses. This paper finds that municipal Wi-Fi networks do not meet the criteria of... [10 May 2006]
Citywide wi-fi: More tricky than it sounds
News Citywide wi-fi networks built and managed either in partnership with a private company or by a city have come into vogue in the past couple of years, despite strong opposition and aggressive lobbying by phone companies and cable operators, which... [02 May 2006]
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