Dual County Wi-Fi System Proposed
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By gregstanmar@insightbb.com;Greg Stanmar  STREATOR - The idea of giving the entire town free access to high- speed Internet connection is being proposed for LaSalle and Livingston county municipalities by Streator City Manager John Kolata.
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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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AT&T has called off its ambitious plans to roll out free municipal WiFi service over a 62-square-mile area covering St. Louis County. While the company had been wrestling with the problem of how to build a business model around this lucrative service, what may have ended up scuttling the deal was an unforeseen technical difficulty.
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Philadelphia officials have laid the groundwork to provide wireless, high-speed Internet access anywhere in the city, but their plan could be scotched under a state bill that could be signed into law on Tuesday.
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More than 300 communities consider launching local high-speed Internet service.
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By The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Jun. 1--The idea of creating a low-cost wireless Internet network across  Tucson has great appeal, but we urge city leaders to make sure that the system  will, first and foremost, work well, and, secondly, be used by residents.
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For all the buzz about municipal Wi-Fi networks, getting a system off the ground can be an arduous process mired in a tangle of politics and conflicting needs and laws, experts say.
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By Clint Swett, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 18--After more than a year of fits and starts, Sacramento is on the verge of approving a system that would blanket the city with free and paid wireless Internet coverage for both residents and visitors.
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Ambitious municipal wireless project may include eight technologies and take longer than expected.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Technologies that extend the range of Wi-Fi wireless LANs are making that low-priced technology an option for broadband Internet access in U.S. rural areas with limited broadband options.
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By DANIEL PIKE STAFF WRITER  The economic future of many rural Illinois towns might hinge on the availability of high-speed Internet access, according to U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin.
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By Jerry Berrios, The Miami Herald  Sep. 10--Florida highways are about to get a lot more high-tech thanks to a new wireless initiative proposed by the Florida Department of Transportation.
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Wireless broadband gets a boost with optimized EV-DO installations in several regions.
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By Susan Erler, The Times, Munster, Ind.  Mar. 8--MICHIGAN CITY -- The city hopes to lure more business to downtown  by setting up free high-speed Internet access in the Franklin Street corridor.
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Silicon Valley&#39;s municipal wireless project is one of the most ambitious ever attempted, but good things take time-- more than proponents thought, in this case.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - A proposal to blanket 1,500 square miles of Silicon Valley with affordable wireless access to the Internet stepped closer to reality Tuesday after a joint task force selected Silicon Valley Metro Connect to build and operate the network.
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What would Benjamin Franklin say? Philadelphia plans citywide free Wi-Fi Internet access for computer users.