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EarthLink Municipal Networks, a subsidiary created to design and implement wireless broadband services, with the country's biggest municipal ISP contracts, covering Philadelphia and Anaheim, Calif. The partnership with Earthlink is a prime example of how affordable broadband service is being provided to low-income neighborhoods that would ...
Municipal broadband is broadband Internet access offered by public entities. Services are often provided either fully or partially by local governments to residents within certain areas or jurisdictions. [1] Common connection technologies include unlicensed wireless ( Wi-Fi, wireless mesh networks ), licensed wireless (such as WiMAX ), and ...
Muni-Wireless: In October 2005, Philadelphia, PA, and Anaheim, CA, selected EarthLink to build their municipal Wi-Fi networks. EarthLink's Municipal Networks division launched public wi-fi networks in Anaheim, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Milpitas, CA, and won several more municipal contracts; in 2007 EarthLink decided to exit the muni wi-fi ...
Twenty-three million families in the U.S. will have bigger internet bills starting in May. That's because a federal broadband subsidy program they're enrolled in is nearly out of money. Dozens of ...
Gardner was one of 32 municipalities to receive a Community Municipal Fiber grant, which will be used to upgrade the city's IT systems. Gardner awarded $200,000 fiber optic grant to connect city ...
A municipal wireless network is a citywide wireless network. This usually works by providing municipal broadband via Wi-Fi to large parts or all of a municipal area by deploying a wireless mesh network. The typical deployment design uses hundreds of wireless access points deployed outdoors, often on poles. The operator of the network acts as a ...
Omnibus bill split in two; second raft of measures include local tax hikes and will be addressed Thursday by the Joint Committee on Finance Omnibus bill to make sweeping changes to municipal laws ...
San Francisco Municipal Wireless was a canceled municipal wireless network that would have provided internet access to the city of San Francisco, California . The network was originally proposed by San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom in 2004. In late 2005, the city put out a formal request for proposals, and in April 2006 it was announced that a ...