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  • USA: Can a wireless network pay for itself?

    A municipal wireless network offers the promise of almost unlimited connectivity. But before deployment, a community needs to consider how the network will be used and paid for.

    Becoming a public Internet service provider probably won’t cut it, industry experts say.

  • USA: How to Make Municipal Wi-Fi Work

    The idea of free Internet for all Americans looks good on screen, but the concept also raises crucial questions. And for the past few years, as cities across the country jumped on the broadband wagon, many government IT leaders kept getting stuck on the first and most important one: How?

    Since 2005, various U.S. cities from Philadelphia to Houston have announced plans for Wi-Fi networks only to turn around and cancel them later because of lack of funding or subscription support. Many local governments refused to be anchor tenants because they didn't want to commit to buying a specified volume of service.

  • USA: Kostenloser Internetzugang in New Yorker Parks

    Stadt hält an privaten Betreibern fest

    Die New Yorker Stadtverwaltung vernetzt ihre Parks mit kostenlosen Wireless-Zugängen. Als erster Park soll bis Juli dieses Jahres der Central Park mit freiem Internetzugang für Erholungsuchende ausgestattet sein, wie die New York Times berichtet. Bis zum Ende des Sommers sollen weitere drei Parks folgen, kündigte die Abteilung für Parks und Erholung der Stadt an. Geplant ist die Einbindung sämtlicher Parks in New York in den kommenden Jahren in das Netz kostenloser Wireless-Internetverbindungen. Die Ankündigung bedeutet einen großen Sprung nach vorne für ein bereits drei Jahre altes Projekt.

  • USA: Missouri: St. Peters: Surf in the parks

    Free Wi-Fi service up and running in several city facilities

    While taking a stroll through one of the parks in St. Peters next spring, one might see children playing, people jogging, dogs frolicking and people surfing the Internet.

    That's right. Officials said some city parks are now wired for the World Wide Web.

    "This was really a good deal for the city and our residents," said Alderman Patrick Barclay, Ward 4. "We are now the first city in our region to provide our residents with free Internet access."Protronics Technologies Inc., based in St. Charles, is providing free wireless Internet service to the city and access to park visitors. Company founder Andy Kastrup said providing free wireless service is cost-effective.

  • USA: Muscatine: Wireless service brings information to parents

    Text messaging may be fun for teenagers, but beginning this month, it can also be a convenient source of information for parents in the Muscatine Community School District.

    Walter Crowder, director of technology and information for the District, said parents can sign up for a new, free service: Iowa School Alerts. The service, developed by the Iowa state government, alerts parents to school closings, late starts and early dismissals on their cell phone and e-mail.

  • USA: New Defense wireless policy tightens security

    After more than two years of modifying and updating a 2004 wireless policy, the Defense Department has released a memorandum aimed at boosting security on wireless local area networks connected to the Global Information Grid.

    The supplemental policy, signed off on June 2 by Defense CIO John Grimes, requires the IEEE 802.11i standards to be used for wireless LANs and devices, and technologies that can store, process or transmit unclassified information. The old policy required that wireless devices use cryptographic modules validated to Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2.

  • USA: New York bekommt Wireless-Bereich

    Die Stadt die niemals schläft, bekommt nun Zugang zum kabellosen Internet. Ein Pilotprojekt testet einen Bereich von 20 Blocks.

    Nachdem schon einige Weltstädte eigene, öffentliche wLAN-Supports erhalten haben, ist nun auch die kulturelle Hauptstadt der USA an der Reihe. Midtown Manhattan, also der Bereich zwischen dem Times Square und dem südlichen Central Park sowie zwischen der sechsten und der achten Avenue sollen mit wLAN versorgt werden. Alle New Yorker und die Gäste der Stadt können dann kostenfrei mit ihren Mobiltelefonen, Laptops und anderen Endgeräten auf das Netz zugreifen. Bis Ende des Monats soll der Service vollständig implementiert sein.

  • USA: No Wires, No Plugs: Just Access By WiFi - Alexandria is going wireless

    City Promoting E-Connectivity

    The city is close to a signing a 21st-century agreement to build a citywide wireless network. Anyone with a laptop computer equipped for wireless access will be able to connect to the Internet from virtually anywhere in the city with the purchase of a $21-per-month account. The wireless connection will be free in two dozen designated zones -- which include King Street in Old Town, major parks and Landmark Mall.

  • USA: Ocean City: Badestrand wird total vernetzt

    Neben Bikini, Badeschlapfen und Sonnencreme könnte auch das Notebook schon bald in das Strandgepäck gehören. Die Stadt Ocean City in den USA möchte ihren Urlaubern mit WLAN und RFID ab Sommer 2008 das Stranderlebnis der Zukunft bieten.

    Der gesamte Strand des beliebten Sommererholungsorts Ocean City soll mit drahtlosem Internet vernetzt werden, die Besucher mittels Armbändern mit Funketiketten ihre Strandgebühr, den Parkplatz und Essen und Getränke in den Strandlokalen bargeldlos bezahlen können.

  • USA: Ohio: Plan outlined for county-wide wireless access

    At an East Liverpool Technology Council luncheon Monday, Columbiana County Port Authority CEO Tracy Drake spoke about plans for county-wide wireless Internet access.

    The luncheon was held at the East Liverpool Motor Lodge. Attendees from Kent State University’s Salem and East Liverpool branches, the East Liverpool Area YMCA, New Life Academy of Information Technology, Buckeye Online School for Success and other entities interested in technology development in the area were present.

  • USA: Presidential Memorandum: Unleashing the Wireless Broadband Revolution

    MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES

    SUBJECT:Unleashing the Wireless Broadband Revolution

    America's future competitiveness and global technology leadership depend, in part, upon the availability of additional spectrum. The world is going wireless, and we must not fall behind. The resurgence of American productivity growth that started in the 1990s largely reflects investments by American companies, the public sector, and citizens in the new communications technologies that are what we know today as the Internet. The Internet, as vital infrastructure, has become central to the daily economic life of almost every American by creating unprecedented opportunities for small businesses and individual entrepreneurs. We are now beginning the next transformation in information technology: the wireless broadband revolution.

  • USA: Relaunched Oklahoma City Wi-Fi Network Showcases City-Services Model

    Oklahoma may be without a statewide broadband strategy, but earlier this summer Oklahoma City re-launched what is being billed as the largest city-owned and operated municipal Wi-Fi network.

    Although the Wi-Fi mesh network went live in September 2006, it was re-launched in an expanded mode on June 3, 2008. It is devoted exclusively to public safety and municipal use, and is not available to the public.

    The city joined Corpus Christi, Texas, in launching a municipal wireless broadband network for municipal use only. Minneapolis and Riverside, Calif., are among the cities that offered mixed-use networks, allowing the public to access the system for internet connections, as well as for city function.

  • USA: San Franciscos WLAN-Pläne sind in trockenen Tüchern

    Die Stadt hat jetzt Verträge mit Earthlink zum Aufbau eines der größten kostenlosen Funknetze unterzeichnet.

    San Francisco, Earthlink und Google sind sich nach sieben Monaten Verhandlung einig: Gemeinsam wollen sie in der Stadt an der Pazifikküste das größte öffentliche US-amerikanische WLAN-Netz aufbauen. Über das Funknetz sollen die mehr als 800.000 Einwohner der Stadt Zugriff auf das Internet erhalten. Mit 72.000 potenziellen Nutzern galt bislang der WLAN-Dienst, den Google an seinem Hauptsitz in Mountain View aufgebaut hatte, als größte Installation.

  • USA: WLAN für alle in ganz Los Angeles

    Eine weitere Metropole in den USA darf sich auf ein neues Breitband-Internet-Projekt freuen: alle Einwohner von Los Angeles sollen umsonst oder zumindest für nur einen geringen Betrag drahtlosen Zugang zum Internet bekommen.

  • Vorerst kein drahtloses Internet in Thüringen

    Hoffnungen auf ein drahtloses Hochgeschwindigkeits-Internet für Thüringer Gemeinden haben sich laut einem MDR-Bericht vorerst zerschlagen. Rechtlich seien drei Unternehmen verpflichtet, 2009 mindestens 15 Prozent der Thüringer Gemeinden zu versorgen, berichtete das Thüringen-Journal. Die Bundesnetzagentur in Bonn und das Thüringer Wirtschaftsministerium gingen jedoch nicht davon aus, dass diese Auflage erfüllt wird.

  • Why Wireless Cities Matter

    [Part 1] The urban lifestyle and community collaboration

    There are dozens of cities in the U.S. and other countries employing or planning to employ Wi-Fi technology in citywide hot spots or clouds. Internationally these include Taipei, Perth, Hong Kong, Pretoria, Cebu City, Auckland, Adelaide, Zamora (Spain), Eindhoven, Amsterdam, Liverpool, Portsmouth and Brussels. Domestic cities include Seattle, San Francisco, Anaheim, Minneapolis, Portland (OR), Las Vegas, Atlanta, Dayton, Los Angeles, Spokane, Lexington, and several smaller cities such as Bowling Green, Cerritos (CA), LaFayette and others. Even Macedonia is planning a wireless network covering over 1,000 square miles of territory... essentially making it a Wi-Fi country.

  • WiMax services enhance tele services in India

    The WiMAX services in India are getting delayed every month. The extended process is now raising many eyebrows amongst the bidders and mostly amongst the target audience.

    The reason for delay is basically seen as a space crunch in network for the implementation. Despite the delay, many corporate telecom services have taken forward the need for WiMAX services in the Indian grounds; enabling better coverage, capacity, high spectral efficiency, low latency, better QOS, high reliability and security.

  • WiMax to drive broadband growth India

    Wireless technologies like WiMax will lead the Indian broadband growth story, helping achieve the goal of having 100 million broadband users by 2014, world's largest chip-maker Intel said in Taipei on Sunday.

    The government has set a target of achieving 100 million broadband subscribers by 2014 as against 8.59 million users by the end of February 2010.

  • Wireless Africa identifies references sites

    Canada is funding a new two-year pan-African wireless initiative to bring low-cost broadband to rural communities.

    The initiative was set up in Pretoria last month and is being led by the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research's (CSIR's) Meraka Institute.

    Project leader Chris Morris believes wireless technology is a solution to connect remote communities on the world's least wired continent. “Why should rural, poor and remote areas in Africa be denied access to the information society through lack of infrastructure, or because of exorbitantly high telecommunications costs?” he asks.

  • Wireless technologies are poised to deepen the broadband penetration in India

    The Internet user population in India will soon exceed the 200 million mark. This was made possible by lower-cost computers and notebooks and cheaper broadband service. But on the broadband connectivity front, India has nothing to write home about.

    However, of later, there have been some salutary developments. 3G and WIMAX auctions will pave the way for driving up the broadband usage. The country’s WIMAX subscriber base is expected to reach 19 million by 2012. It represents enormous business opportunities. A recent study shows India’s WIMAX subscriber base hitting 14 million by 2013 and growing annually at nearly 130%. It means that in the next four years, about 20% of the global WIMAX users will be in India, making it a $13-billion market.

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