As I understand it, Minneapolis has issued an RFP to set up service throughout the entire city. Details are on the Minneapolis website. They are looking to get proposals from vendors soon, and will do pilot projects with competitors late in the year. Their timeline is to award a contract in early 2006 for implementation later that year (when may depend upon the bid by the vendor).
Saint Paul is monitoring their RFP process, and I believe City staff will make recommendations later about next steps as they monitor progress in Minneapolis and other cities. It's unclear how all this will shake out in coming months. Mike Wassenaar SPNN West End --Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Schoenberg Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 6:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [StPaul] Wired St. Paulk The City of Philadelphia will be hosting the "W ireless Internet Institute (W2i) Digital Cities Convention: The Frontier of Broadband Wireless Applications" today through May 4, 2005. You can access the convention site through the Philadelphia site <http://www.phila.gov/wireless/> .Upon checking the attending cities, I found neither St. Paul nor Minneapolis. There has been brave talk (or at least rumors) about creating city-wide broadband access. Perhaps our city officials ought to be sharp enough to attend to the current efforts of other cities, which we may be in competition with in the wired service-oriented future economy of the next 5 to 10 years. Mike Schoenberg MacGroveland ------------------------------------------------- JOIN the St. Paul Issues Forum TODAY: http://www.e-democracy.org/stpaul/ ------------------------------------------------- POST MESSAGES HERE: [email protected] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/ ------------------------------------------------- JOIN the St. Paul Issues Forum TODAY: http://www.e-democracy.org/stpaul/ ------------------------------------------------- POST MESSAGES HERE: [email protected] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/
