Portland’s Personal Telco has always had an active list serve discussion. Things are heating up with this week’s announcement by Earthlink to shut down Philadelphia’s Wi-Fi network, the largest in the nation.
Today, it’s the battle of the Tylers (Tyler Booth, President of Stephouse Networks vrs Tyler van Houwelingen, CEO of Azulstar)
Tyler Booth posts:
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> I think [...]
Greg Goldman still sees a future for Wireless Philadelphia, the nonprofit firm set up three years ago to help city residents gain access to Internet service.
Just don’t ask him what it might be, says the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Wireless Philadelphia chief executive called reporters to a North Philadelphia street corner yesterday to declare the nonprofit “alive [...]
Earthlink says it’s closing the Philadelphia Wi-Fi Network on June 12. According to their press release:
EarthLink today notified its Wi-Fi customers in Philadelphia that EarthLink is terminating its Philadelphia Wi-Fi service and that EarthLink is providing its customers a thirty-day transition period through June 12, 2008.
After months of negotiations with the City of Philadelphia [...]
TECOM Investments has announced a new deal with du, the UAE telecoms operator, to offer a WiFi service in public areas of Dubai Internet City, Dubai Media City and Knowledge Village starting this April.
To begin with the new WiFi coverage will include food courts, lobbies and select offices and villas, but TECOM intends to extend [...]
New Orleans is about to lose its municipal Wi-Fi network as EarthLink plans to halt its participation in the citywide project on May 18, reports InfoWorld and the Times Picayune.
First, EarthLink tried to sell the network outright. Second, it sought to transfer ownership of the network to the city of New Orleans. Finally, it tried [...]
When homes get 50-100 Mbps, a slew of high-definition content, better-quality video-sharing sites and even 3-D video will be enabled. Call it Broadband 2.0, says Wired.
Experts say this increased bandwidth — when it becomes widely available — will have a profound effect on everything from our social interactions on the web to the way we [...]
The fate of geo stationary satellite AMC-14 is still in limbo for the Luxembourg-based SES group and its underwriters.
SpaceDaily has learned that SES has backtracked on their original plan to ditch the Lockheed Martin built A2100 satellite, and is trying to offload the spacecraft to the DOD before an SES competitor or even one of [...]
Vietnam launched its first satellite over the weekend to provide telecommunications, broadcasting and Internet links across the country.
Vinasat-1 was carried into space aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from the European spaceport in French Guiana Friday evening.
Also launched from the rocket, was Star One C2 with a payload of 28 C-band transponders, 16 Ku-band transponders [...]
C/Net reports a Silicon Valley Democrat, Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) on Thursday introduced the Wireless Internet Nationwide for Families Act, which would direct the FCC to auction off 2,155 - 2,180 MHz spectrum that currently lies fallow.
Rep. Ed Markey, the Massachusetts Democrat who leads a House telecommunications and Internet panel, and Rep. Chris Cannon, [...]
Robert Topolski simply wanted to share digital recordings of barber shop quartets with his buddies, says the NY Times.
On Thursday, the Oregon-based software quality engineer who was the first to raise alarms about Comcast’s practice of blocking peer-to-peer file sharing data on the company’s network, testified at an FCC hearing at Stanford University (video [...]
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