NYCwireless community:
I'm looking for contacts in lower-income neighborhoods to talk to about doing a large-scale "last mile" wireless network, to provide Internet access to homes, small businesses, and non-profit organizations.
Some of you may be aware that the NYC Council was discussing ways last year to use city-owned excess fiber capacity to provide this type of service. However, unknown to them, the NYPD has gone and hogged it for use in the new citywide emergency wireless network. No doubt, a good purpose, but with no spin-off benefits to the city's under-served broadband-less neighborhoods.
the ideal partner is a non-profit organization that operates multiple facilities in the same neighborhood, has at least one full-time IT person, and can work with us raising money for the project.
some areas we are interested in:
Bronx -South Bronx
Queens -Long Island City -Jamaica -Howard Beach -Far Rockaway
Brooklyn -Sunset Park -Flatbush -Crown Heights -Bedford-Stuyvesant -East New York -Bushwick -Coney Island
Manhattan -Harlem -Inwood -Wash Hts -Chinatown -Lower East Side (south of Delancey)
there will be a separate call later for volunteers to help design and install the network.
why are we doing this? to show it can be done, and to challenge ourselves technically and organizationally.
also, i'm tired of unwiring places in Manhattan for rich people with laptops.
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