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NEWS ABOUT: municipal wireless

municipal wireless stories: 6 news summaries

Hopes for
Wifi Cities Fizzling Fast

Earthlink, other providers pull out
amid rising costs

Mar 22, 08 12:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hopes for wireless cities are flickering out one by one as Internet providers run up against mounting logistics and small profits, the New York Times reports. Ambitious plans to provide free or cheap high-speed service to poor residents of cities such as Philadelphia, Houston, and San Francisco have ground to... More »

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San Francisco • Philadelphia • EarthLink • WiFi • municipal wireless • telecommunications • Meraki • Internet access

Wireless Tech Leaps Forward ... on Balloons

Flying 'towers' could revolutionize rural Internet, cell use; Google interested

Feb 20, 08 11:22 AM CST
(Newser) - A decidedly whimsical business model could bring wireless Internet and cell service to wide swaths of rural America, slinging signals from balloons drifting toward the edge of space. Don’t scoff—the system is already providing services for truckers and oil companies, courtesy of Space Data Corp., and Google is... More »

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Google • Internet • telecom • hot air balloon • WiFi • municipal wireless • rural America • Space Data Corp.

Small Company Promises SF Free WiFi

New idea could help startup succeed where Google failed

Jan 4, 08 4:47 PM CST
(Newser) - A tiny startup has a plan to blanket San Francisco with free Internet access and revive the floundering municipal wireless concept. Meraki Networks hopes to enlist city residents to install free radio repeaters atop their homes, which would be simpler and cheaper than placing them on public property, as Google... More »

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Google • EarthLink • WiFi • startup • municipal wireless

Paul Allen to Bid in FCC Wireless Airwaves Auction

Airwave auction draws applications from a diverse group from Google to Chevron to AT&T

Dec 19, 07 9:57 AM CST
(Newser) - Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is joining the competition for wireless airwaves being auctioned by the FCC next month. Allen’s firm, Vulcan Spectrum, applied, as have Google, Verizon, AT&T and others, to bid for the 700-megahertz spectrum that goes on the block Jan. 24, reports Reuters. Allen's investment company,... More »

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FCC • municipal wireless • wireless service • 3G wireless networks • Paul Allen

Manhattan
to Launch
Free Wi-Fi

Open access trial
in 20-block
midtown stretch

Nov 18, 07 5:38 AM CST
(Newser) - A big slice of the Big Apple will get free Wi-Fi at the end of the month, courtesy of the city and CBS. New Yorkers with Wi-Fi enabled technology will be able to access high-speed wireless service at no cost in a 20-block zone between Times Square and Central Park—... More »

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technology • Internet • CBS • New York City • Manhattan • WiFi • municipal wireless

WiMax Gets Green Light from UN

Upstart wireless tech included in next generation standards

Oct 20, 07 2:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a huge victory for Intel, the UN’s telecommunications agency yesterday gave WiMax a thumbs up, opening the way for member nations to devote public radio space to the upstart wireless internet technology. Intel lobbied hard for the WiMax, which can sling data 40 miles at up to 70... More »

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United Nations • wireless • Intel • Sony Ericsson • municipal wireless • WiMax • Qualcomm

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