MUNICIPAL WI-FI SPENDING ESTIMATES DOWN
[SOURCE: Associated Press, AUTHOR: Anick Jesdanun]
A leading industry analyst on municipal wireless projects is revising its 2007
spending estimates as cities find their projects costing more and drawing less
interest from residential customers than expected. In an annual State of the
Market Report, MuniWireless estimates U.S. expenditures at $329 million for the
year, down from the $460 million projection made for 2007 last year.
MuniWireless founder Esme Vos cited several factors, including cities and
service providers changing their strategies and technical hurdles requiring
additional hardware. But Vos notes the revised estimate is still 35 percent
above the $243 million spent in 2006 on projects to blanket all or parts of
cities with Wi-Fi and other wireless Internet access.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071024/ap_on_hi_te/techbit_municipal_wi_fi
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