FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said he still wants to auction spectrum for free Internet service. Martin testified Tuesday at a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Telecommunications Subcommittee (pdf).
“I think the business model that we should be advocating is trying to take into account some kind of a lifeline broadband service for consumers,” Martin [...]
Free wireless Internet may be available to all San Francisco residents by the end of the year, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday.
San Francisco-based Meraki Networks will install free wireless Internet throughout the city, starting with Valencia Garden Complex, a 260-unit residence located at 360 Valencia St. where Wednesday’s announcement was made.
Actually, some 100,000 San [...]
A proposal to put free wireless Internet service in public libraries and a handful of other buildings in Santa Fe has been delayed by objections from residents who say they are electrically sensitive.
“These are our last refuges,” complained Arthur Firstenberg, a leading opponent of the Wi-Fi plan (below).
Firstenberg, who contends Earth is being engulfed in [...]
Meraki is announcing today that it has partnered with the city of San Francisco to provide free wireless internet access to affordable housing complexes in the city.
In a press conference with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom today, Sanjit Biswas, founder and CEO of Meraki, will showcase two affordable housing developments that it has unwired.
Earlier this [...]
A full-day workshop called “Safely Accessing the TV White Space Spectrum - What Can We Do???” has been organized by the SDR Forum, aimed at providing a neutral venue for this controversial topic.
The Software Defined Radio Forum is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the use of software defined radio technologies for [...]
You pay the bills!
You fight the city. You fight the state.
You fight the unions. You fight the community.
You think you can do a better job, you do it.
I am finished! It’s all yours. I quit!
- The Hospital
MetroFi hopes to make a decision on whether to shut down Portland’s free Wi-Fi network within the next 10 [...]
On June 12, 2008, Earthlink Wireless plans to disconnect their municipal WiFi service in the City of Philadelphia.
Change is in the Airwaves: A Documentary about the Philadelphia Wireless Initiative from George Rausch on Vimeo. Documentary filmmaker George Rausch has released his unfinished documentary about the endeavor, forgoing further editing and technical corrections.
My aspiration for [...]
Wavion, a Metro and Rural Wi-Fi vendor promoting beamforming, today announced the release of a new SW version supporting self-backhaul.
Wavion’s spatially adaptive base stations have been extended to provide self-backhaul to neighboring base stations using their beamforming technology that leverages six radios and antennas.
The company says the self-backhaul feature has been successfully tested by beta [...]
The Oregonian’s Steve Woodward has a nice article on Twitter for newbies:
Here’s how it works: You register for free at Twitter.com. Then you find people to “follow” — those whose text messages you want to hear above the roar of the “twitterstream”: an estimated three million public messages exchanged daily among Twitter’s 1.3 million [...]
Ladies and gentlemen… I’ve traveled over half our state to be here tonight. I couldn’t get away sooner because my new well was coming in at Coyote Hills and I had to see about it. That well is now flowing at two thousand barrels and it’s paying me an income of five thousand dollars a [...]
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