Review: Portland Wi-Fi a mixed offering
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It rains a lot in Portland. So on days when the sun's rays make it all the way to the ground, who wouldn't want to take the city's new free Wi-Fi service for a spin?
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Company pledges free Wi-Fi if people share their broadband connections, but service model violates U.S. ISP user agreements.
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Municipal Wi-Fi, full of promise and hype over the past two years, has hit the wall of reality in the U.S. because of economics, politics and even the technology.
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InfoWorld - Despite the tribulations of launching a regional wireless Internet network, some cities are making progress by sharing their hard-won lessons.
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CHICAGO - Plans to blanket cities across the nation with low-cost or free wireless Internet access are being delayed or abandoned because they are proving to be too costly and complicated.
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It's a mixed bag, with some welcoming the early arrival of key features and others unhappy with the fragmenting of Windows.
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Microsoft Corp. has been doing some soul-searching about the future of municipal Wi-Fi for consumers. The company's market studies are finding end user woes, but also market potential.
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After Earthlink and Google scrapped plans to offer wireless in the city, many weren't so sure. But a start-up is promising to finish the job.
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Boston's plan to blanket the city with wireless Internet connections is set to pick up speed this month as companies jockey to play a role and a pilot WiFi project gets underway in a square-mile area of the Grove Hall neighborhood.
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Expect mobile broadband access to be commonplace in the next couple of years. The technologies are here and so is the demand, but spectrum and cost issues remain.
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With a rash of muni Wi-Fi projects collapsing, companies and cities realize their initial approaches to providing ubiquitous, free network connectivity aren't working. The problem is Wi-Fi is too expensive to deploy, and there's not enough user demand.
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A boat trip on the Chicago River helped show WiMax as a fast mobile wireless network technology, but less clear are when mobile workers and consumers can get the products, at what price and how WiMax world will interact with Wi-Fi or other networks.
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Analysis Prospects bright in the Wi-Fi arena
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Wireless broadband isn't the only wireless game in town.  Columnist Craig Mathias describes a slew of short-range but very important types of wireless that are starting to become widely used.
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A look at the uneven course of WiMax, municipal Wi-Fi, and other wireless stories of the year.
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Backers of a Philadelphia Wi-Fi project are worried that a bill going through the state legislature would spike a plan to blanket the city with free or inexpensive wireless access. [Broadband Blog]
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This home Wi-Fi equipment focuses on the clean delivery of IPTV and other media throughout the home but doesn't always succeed.