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Municipal Wi-Fi Networks: The Goals, Practices, and Policy Implications of the U.S. Case
White Papers This paper explores three broad questions about municipal Wi-Fi networks in the U.S.why are cities getting involved, how do they go about deploying these networks, and what policy issues does this new trend raise?
[May 10, 2006, 1:00]
Municipal Wi-Fi: In Search of a Rationale
White Papers This paper finds that municipal Wi-Fi networks do not meet the criteria of public utilities. This paper provides a critical assessment of the economic rationale for municipal government involvement in these services and provides a context for...
[May 10, 2006, 1:00]
The wheels come off muni Wi-Fi
Blog Municipal Wi-Fi. Cities like London are rolling out muni Wi-Fi predominantly as connectivity for municipal workers, like traffic wardens - if citizens get free access then that's a bonus. And if it doesn't.then it goes the way of Chicago's planned...
[August 29, 2007, 16:31]
BT Fusion gets Wi-Fi upgrade
News BT's fixed-mobile convergence system, Fusion, has now gone Wi-Fi, effectively linking it up with the provider's UK hot spots, municipal wireless networks and — potentially — global hot spots. The Wireless Cities initiative, announced six months ago...
[December 14, 2006, 12:49]
Mesh Technology Primer - The Evolution of Wi-Fi: From Hot Spots to Hot Zones to Municipal Networks
White Papers Proxim's ORiNOCO Mesh Creation Protocol is a dynamic, low overhead solution that addresses the major challenges of deploying Wi-Fi cells outdoors for municipal broadband networks. The paper applied significant innovation to solve the issues of self...
[August 4, 2006, 1:00]
City-wide Wi-Fi networks set to soar
News The report The Future of Municipal Wireless Networks from analyst Datamonitor forecasts spending on city-wide Wi-Fi in the UK and the US will swell from $900m (£439m) this year to $6.4bn in 2012 — a year-on-year growth rate of 48 percent.
[July 26, 2007, 19:04]
Five Keys to Successful Metro-Scale Wi-Fi Deployment
White Papers The maturation of the municipal broadband market, as well as Tropos' leadership in driving these deployments, has provided one with the real-world knowledge of how Wi-Fi can be successfully deployed over a metro-scale.
[March 16, 2009, 4:27]
Hot spot pricing 'should be halved'
News Another analyst, Matt Yardley of Analysys Consulting, told ZDNet UK that municipal Wi-Fi projects such as that currently underway in Norwich could have an impact on the market as people begin to expect cheaper or free connectivity.
[September 8, 2006, 17:15]
UK's 'biggest' muni Wi-Fi network goes live
News Norfolk Open Link claims it is avoiding competition with the private sector, which has been a major obstacle to municipal Wi-Fi projects in the US. Central zones have gained a full mesh network, whereby hundreds of nodes (fixed to lamp posts...
[August 1, 2006, 17:20]
Photos: Mobile mania at 3GSM
News What you're looking at is a prototype of the consumer version, which will be available to local authorities looking to roll out municipal Wi-Fi on the cheap, or operators wanting to offer home broadband via HSDPA.
[February 16, 2007, 13:46]
Tech giants push for digital cities
News Intel, which has been an advocate for municipal wireless networks for several years, is also working closely with Muniwireless.com, an online site devoted to municipal wireless broadband, to help develop case studies focused on Wi-Fi network...
[August 19, 2005, 9:50]
Network Access Control for Mobile Networks
White Papers The use of these mobile devices in insecure public networks such as wireless hotspots and municipal Wi-Fi networks exposes these devices to various kinds of viruses, worms and other malicious software.
[November 13, 2009, 0:21]
Municipal Wireless - Just the Facts, Please!
White Papers The phenomenon of municipal wireless is so new that few people are in a position to have the facts. Having provided the wireless routers used in more than 135 metro-scale broadband wireless (or Wi-Fi mesh) networks around the world, Tropos Networks...
[September 1, 2005, 3:00]
Energy inefficiency could kill pure cellular
News However, Metro — or municipal — Wi-Fi is fast becoming a reality as BT rolls out its "Wireless Cities" programme across the UK. Instead, suggests the report by ABI Research — entitled Energy Efficiency Analysis for Mobile Broadband Solutions...
[January 12, 2007, 13:22]
Norfolk enchants with free Wi-Fi
Leader Few issues in today's technology space can compete with municipal Wi-Fi for sparking argument. It's the same story with municipal Wi-Fi. America has led the way here, most notably with Philadelphia's ambitious drive to create its own municipal...
[August 2, 2006, 14:30]
Swindon promises city-wide Wi-Fi mesh network
News He said this approach would help the scheme succeed where entirely free municipal Wi-Fi schemes have failed. Swindon is planning a borough-wide Wi-Fi mesh network providing free internet access to all residents.
[November 17, 2009, 15:46]
Solis Energy develops solar-powered Wi-Fi
News The company is now pitching those products for municipal Wi-Fi projects. Solis Energy, based in Florida, Orlando, has created a portable, uninterrupted power supply for Wi-Fi routers that harvest their energy from the sun, according to Robert...
[August 28, 2007, 11:37]
Other objections
Talkback That may be why over in San Francisco, my old home, it's not resistance to advertising that is holding up the introduction of free municipal Wi-Fi. According to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle on July 12, supervisors are kicking up a fuss...
[July 19, 2007, 16:02]
Free as the air
Leader The city of Philadelphia is building a municipal Wi-Fi network: the telcos have organised against it and are trying to get publicly-owned wireless networks outlawed. The spat between Continental Airlines and Boston Logan International Airport is...
[August 4, 2005, 13:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This is the sort of thing — the municipal network, not the dime-hustling — which is causing enormous upset in America, where the telephone companies and ISPs are fighting tooth and claw to prevent local government from installing similar systems.
[August 25, 2006, 19:20]
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