Yet more on the San Francisco and Philiadelphia WiFi Plans with a look at their
different "Business Models" A Tale of Two Wireless Cities http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6028_7-6358531-1.html?tag=nl.e501 It was the best of municipal Wi-Fi, it was the worst of municipal Wi-Fi. I refer of course to last week, when two cities I have called home at various points in my life made big announcements about unwiring their Internet access. In the City by the Bay, proposals came in from 26 different Wi-Fi luminaries (some more luminous than others), touting their plans to provide free or extremely low-cost wireless access throughout the city. Of course, to listen to the buzz, you'd think only one company had put in a proposal because everyone seems to be stuck on the prospect of getting 300Kbps of free bandwidth branded with those cute multicolored letters in the Google logo. But there are much more heavyweight names on the list, including big-name ISP EarthLink; cellular companies Ericsson, Cingular, and Motorola; and upstart San Francisco wireless maven Feeva. Meanwhile, on the other coast, at the end of a yearlong campaign to create a wireless network covering all 135 square miles of the greater Philadelphia area, the City of Brotherly Love has finally awarded the contract for creating and maintaining the network. The winning bidder? EarthLink. The cost of the service? Twenty bucks a month to most subscribers. . . . . . . . . . . --- You are currently subscribed to telecom-cities as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manage your mail settings at http://forums.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/nyu.pl?enter=telecom-cities RSS feed of list traffic: http://www.mail-archive.com/telecom-cities@forums.nyu.edu/maillist.xml
