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PC World
August 2005
Tom Spring |
ISPs Attempt to Stop Public Broadband Cable and DSL providers battle cities that want to offer access to residents.   |
InternetNews
June 24, 2005
Roy Mark |
Muni Wi-Fi Aims to Close Digital Divide Private enterprise broadband providers ignoring the growing digital divide should expect competition from local municipalities. |
The Motley Fool
January 14, 2005
Dave Mock |
Intel: Not-So-Secret Agent of Disruption Intel backs government initiatives for wireless broadband. |
BusinessWeek
September 5, 2005
Catherine Yang |
Wi-Fi With Its Own Zip Code As more municipalities set up wireless networks, a fast-moving business emerges. |
Entrepreneur
October 2005
Mike Hogan |
Phone on the Range Head to the country, where Wi-Fi roams free and unrestricted by big-city politics. You'll be encouraged by the possibilities. |
InternetNews
October 4, 2005
Eric Griffith |
EarthLink Scores with Philadelphia EarthLink launches its municipal wireless division with a win as the pick for Wireless Philadelphia. |
Inc.
July 2006
Martha Baer |
Wi-Fi for the Masses Tropos Networks aims to bring the high-speed internet to everyone. Here's how the company is doing it - one city at a time. |
InternetNews
June 23, 2005
Roy Mark |
McCain Bill Would Help Municipal Wi-Fi New bill seeks to block state and incumbent telecoms' efforts to keep cities out of broadband business. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2006
David Kushner |
Wi-Fi for the People Philadelphia plans to become the biggest wireless hot spot ever. But Philadelphia's plan is not designed just to put computers into underserved areas; it also aims to teach people how to use them. |
InternetNews
October 31, 2007
Sean Gallagher |
Senate Panel Blesses Community Broadband A Senate panel has approved legislation banning states' efforts to prevent local governments from providing community broadband access. |
Entrepreneur
February 2007
Amanda C. Kooser |
What Can Muni Wi-Fi Do for Your Biz? Tune in to the opportunities citywide Wi-Fi projects bring. |
BusinessWeek
October 4, 2004
Yang & Green |
Welcome to Broadband City Towns are rushing to build Wi-Fi systems. Cable and phone giants don't like it one bit. |
InternetNews
August 17, 2005
Eric Griffith |
San Francisco Looks To Wireless Future San Francisco's TechConnect program is on the starting block to offer 'affordable broadband' - not necessarily free. |
The Motley Fool
August 30, 2007
Dave Mock |
Too Windy for Wi-Fi While Chicago's decision and EarthLink's troubles don't spell the end of municipal wireless, it is increasingly clear that such networks will face a higher level of scrutiny regarding costs and returns on their investments. |
InternetNews
December 2, 2004
Michael Singer |
'Wireless Philadelphia' Sparks Concern Philadelphia's controversial plan to create low-cost wireless Internet service is fueling a debate among Wi-Fi technology firms over business models. |
InternetNews
June 3, 2005
Roy Mark |
Legislation Aims to Stop Muni Wi-Fi A new bill would prohibit state and local governments from competing with private-sector broadband providers. |
PC Magazine
February 8, 2008
Dan Costa |
Muni Wi-Fi's Weak Signal When I log on to the Web at my apartment in Hoboken, I see 11 Wi-Fi networks, half of them open. So why should I pay taxes for muni Wi-Fi? |
PC Magazine
August 3, 2005
John C. Dvorak |
Disserving the Public The United States has dropped to 16th in the world in per capita broadband deployment, and we can expect to slip further. While there is local interest in improving the situation, state and federal officials will make sure it doesn't happen. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
New York City Plans To Give Residents $70 Million Worth Of Wi-Fi In an effort to further bridge the New York City's digital divide, the de Blasio administration is spending $70 million to expand cheap, high-speed broadband across the five boroughs, the city announced today. |
BusinessWeek
May 21, 2007
Ronald Grover |
Municipal Wi-Fi: A Failure To Communicate Municipal Wi-Fi networks don't quite deliver on the promise of wide-ranging access. |
PC Magazine
February 27, 2008
John Brandon |
Municipal Wireless on the Ropes The Utopian vision of wireless for all city residents is starting to fade. |
BusinessWeek
August 13, 2009 |
Faster Web Connections Washington is trying to figure out how to expand broadband service throughout the U.S. at a reasonable cost. Take a look at the competing technologies. |
BusinessWeek
December 6, 2004
Grow & Crockett |
Telecom: The Fiber-Optic Quagmire The Baby Bells want to enter cable's market -- without paying the same fees |
InternetNews
August 2, 2007
Roy Mark |
Legislation Hypes Rural Broadband Access Lawmakers push legislation designed to protect community ability to build and offer high-speed connections. |
InternetNews
April 6, 2006
Eric Griffith |
Earthlink, Google are Top Pick to Unwire San Francisco The five-member TechConnect Committee planning the future of city-wide wireless for the city of San Francisco last night picked the partnership of Earthlink and Google as their top choice of system integrator to install and manage the network. |
InternetNews
March 7, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Muni Wi-Fi's Second Chance Wi-Fi networks can work with a little tweaking, a new study finds. |
Home Toys
December 2004
Wayne Caswell |
Big Broadband: Public Infrastructure or Private Monopolies How speed, affordability, access, and logistics affect the future of broadband along with two different business models and their probable outcomes. |
Salon.com
June 7, 2002
Jeffrey Benner |
Getting a lock on broadband How the FCC is paving the way for a few big companies to control everyone's high-speed Internet access. |
InternetNews
April 29, 2005
Tim Gray |
Verizon Wireless Cuts NYC Wi-Fi Verizon Wireless is pulling the plug on its free wireless Internet access service that uses New York City phone booths as "hotspots" for its DSL subscribers. |
InternetNews
August 10, 2005
Roy Mark |
Bells Win Video Vote After months of wrangling, Texas lawmakers streamline video franchising rules to accelerate TV-over-fiber rollouts. |
InternetNews
January 9, 2007
Ed Sutherland |
Vonage Inks Earthlink to Wi-Fi Deal Internet phone company Vonage inked a three-year agreement with EarthLink, allowing the Internet access provider to offer Wi-Fi access to customers served by municipal wireless networks. |
Knowledge@Wharton
March 26, 2003 |
Wi-Fi: A Wild Card in Telecom's Restructuring A wild card as the industry restructures is a technology called "wi-fi." Wi-fi is such a hot area -- one of the few pockets of optimism on the tech scene today -- that a recent Wharton conference presented a panel devoted to discussing its potential. |
PC World
May 2002
Anne Kandra |
Still Stuck in the Slow Lane? Lots of areas still can't get broadband. Here's why -- and what you can do... |
InternetNews
May 12, 2004
Roy Mark |
EarthLink: Telecom Reform Unnecessary Nation's third largest ISP tells Congress it should focus on enforcing current law, while broadband providers Verizon and Comcast argue for new ones. |
BusinessWeek
July 31, 2006
Mark Gimein |
The Phone Companies Still Don't Get It They block competition and charge too much. You call this a communications revolution? |
Entrepreneur
July 2008
Amanda C. Kooser |
Public Offering A grass-roots wireless network is flourishing in San Francisco. How was it built? |
PC World
August 24, 2006
Jeff Bertolucci |
The Best Broadband ISPs in America Both cable and DSL connections are getting faster and cheaper, but you may not have the best one. To find out how your ISP rates, see what customers say about their providers. |
BusinessWeek
January 19, 2004
Andy Reinhardt |
The Next Big Thing For Wireless? WiMax is a lot faster than Wi-Fi and has a bigger range -- but success isn't assured |
InternetNews
October 18, 2004
Colin C. Haley |
SBC Sees Cheap Wi-Fi as Cable Cudgel Seeking an edge over cable rivals, SBC Communications today announced $1.99-per-month Wi-Fi service for customers who subscribe to SBC Yahoo DSL. |
The Motley Fool
June 1, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
SBC: How Low Can You Go? The telecom provider offers broadband for less than some dial-up services charge. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
April 30, 2010 |
ISPs Urge FCC to Resist Broadband Regulation A band of cable and telecom firms and their lobbying organizations issue a warning to Federal Communications Commission telling it to keep broadband unregulated. |
PC World
June 2005
Susan Silvius |
The Best (and Worst) ISPs A recent survey rates major providers for speed and tech support, and reveals which broadband and dial-up services make the grade and which fall flat. |
BusinessWeek
May 26, 2011
Peter Burrows |
Can Wi-Fi Work Citywide in New York? City-spanning Wi-Fi has been tried before. Towerstream's effort may work because of the rise of smartphones and tablets. |
PC Magazine
November 2, 2005
Michael J. Miller |
The New Software Buzzwords New jargon used in the software industry to define current trends... A Google-Sun alliance could dilute Microsoft's dominance and fire up more competition... Catching up to Asia's distribution of broadband... Cingular's EDGE network with VAIO TX... Lenovo's new Z-series Thinkpad... |
InternetNews
April 1, 2004
Roy Mark |
Court Refuses to Review FCC Modem Rule Ninth Circuit upholds decision saying cable broadband is subject to common carrier rules. |
PC Magazine
December 2, 2008
Jeremy A. Kaplan |
The Fastest ISPs in America--and Where You Live Looking for speed? We polled tens of thousands of PCMag readers across the country to find out which ISPs, and which types of connections, yield the blazingest speeds. |
BusinessWeek
March 11, 2010
Olga Kharif |
Brownnosing for Google Broadband Cities try almost anything to win Google's new Net service, including an "Internet love ballad." |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2008
Jeremy Hsu |
Wi-Fi Cloud Hovers Over Salt Lake City Researchers map the invisible geography of wireless networks. |
InternetNews
August 26, 2005
Roy Mark |
Same Broadband Numbers, Different Conclusions Consumer advocates claim the FCC is misleading public about pace of broadband rollout -- and DSL and cable modem users are paying more because of it. |
PC Magazine
September 28, 2005
Michael J. Miller |
The Democratization of Content The collective desire to create and edit our own media content is driving a new generation of PCs... Google's new Desktop arrived in record time... Should cities provide free Wi-Fi?... |
