Chuck Daddy Wy-Fi is in. What's the deal? Who do I have to talk to? What's the process?
Chuck Profito wrote: > AT&T Wants to Dump Riverside Network on City > > One of the legacy muni-Fi networks will have new (or no) owners: Esme Vos > writes at MuniWireless.com about the current state of the Riverside, Calif., > network operated by AT&T. The network was the first and only bid by AT&T > with MetroFi, which was unable to complete that network along with many > others, and which shut down in 2008. In Riverside, AT&T kept up much of its > end of the bargain, hiring Nokia Siemens to complete the network, which Vos > says only reached 77 percent of the city. (One expects there's no SkyPilot > gear left in place, either, but I don't know that for sure.) > > The network has 20,000 daily users out of a population of about 300,000 (in > 2000); the county has over 2.1 million residents. > > AT&T wants to give the city the network at no cost, but the city is facing > revenue shortfalls like the rest of the country (and most of the world). > It's trying to get a federal grant. > > Of the networks originally built in part or whole by EarthLink, Kite, and > MetroFi, only a handful remain in operation. Philadelphia recently moved to > take over the remains of the network there from an interim firm that had > been planning to build out a variety of access services. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
