Towerstream beams into Los Angeles
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Broadband-for-business provider goes Hollywood, with the City by the Bay next in line.
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By Killion, Andy  On the rooftop of a large, pink apartment building in Golden Hill - known as the "pink palace" - SoCalFreeNet.org rigged up its first network node in August 2003; an antenna that would give the tenants free wireless Internet access.
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START-UPS housed in Positively Wellington Business' Creative HQ technology incubator will benefit from lightening-fast Internet after local telcos CityLink and FX Networks agreed to provide the incubator with a one-gigabit-per-second connection and related services free.
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DALLAS-FORT WORTH, March 6  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A new world of communications and entertainment is now available to residents in the Dallas- Fort Worth metroplex. AT&T Inc.
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Rajiv Laroia was handed a dream assignment at Lucent's Bell Labs in 1997: Invent a way to put a broadband Internet in the sky. Don't worry about existing cell phone systems, just do it right.
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By ARIZONA DAILY STAR  Match-play event puts marana in bright spotlight  Work crews began cleaning up the Tangerine Road underpass at Interstate 10 last week as part of preparations for next month's Accenture World Match Play Championship in Marana.
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As first light spread across Hollywood, the spin machine hummed to life.
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SBC Communications selected the new Microsoft IPTV Edition software platform for its Project Lightspeed initiative. The deal, which is valued at $400 million over 10 years, is the first of its kind for any US-based telecommunications provider.
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Times Square soars with glittering buildings that pulse and wink with outsized video screens. MTVÂs new high-definition screen raises the ante.
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MobileAccess Networks, an enterprise wireless innovator, announced today that Hearst Corporation has deployed the MobileAccess Universal Wireless Network in its new 46-story Hearst Tower, the first "green" commercial skyscraper in New York City.
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Tower Records may be dead, but its  flagship outlet in Los Angeles still has some relevance to the  music industry.
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(InfoWorld) - A high-tech mecca in Silicon Valley wants to get even more connected by rolling out a superfast fiber network for all its residents. The city of Palo Alto, California, home to many major IT vendors and venture capital firms, last week put out an RFP (request for proposals) seeking a private partner to build a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network. The required speed: 100M bps (bits per second) both downstream and upstream. And as debate swirls in nearby San Francisco over how much the city should be involved in a proposed citywide Wi-Fi network, Palo Alto's position is clear: It wants to eventually own the whole fiber network. The drive by some U.S. cities to build their own broadband networks has been attacked by incumbent carriers and other critics who claim governments have an unfair competitive advantage. Many municipalities have taken a different tack by forming partnerships with private network providers. This approach is now under fire in San Francisco, where the city's budget analyst is studying the business case for a government-owned wireless system. City ownership is critical for network neutrality, according to Peter Allen, a founder of the advocacy group Palo Alto Fiber Network. The city understands that having a service provider own a municipal network doesn't work, he said. "If UPS owned Highway 1, FedEx would not be able to make competitive deliveries," Allen said. Existing service providers that might object to the city's plan, such as local incumbent AT&T Inc., can compete for the project along with other private applicants, he said. Palo Alto, a mostly affluent and liberal city of 60,000, already owns several of its own utilities. Its electric utility owns a fiber-optic ring around the city that links to the Palo Alto Internet Exchange, a "peering point" where most major Internet service providers meet on the Internet. In 2000, the city launched an FTTH trial that reached 66 homes and drew rave reviews from users. The city explored having the electric utility build a fiber network itself but found that its plan to pay for it with revenue bonds wasn't allowed, according to the RFP. The council eventually settled on seeking a private partner, then transferring ownership to the city after a few years. How that transfer would work has yet to be determined. At a minimum, the network would provide data, video and VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service, according to the RFP. It would be neutral and open to multiple service providers who would buy wholesale access. The city wants services to be affordable and available citywide, though some remote parts of the city might not get the full 100M bps bandwidth, according to the RFP. A service provider would have to come up with just over US$36 million to build the whole network and operate it until it achieved positive cash flow, according to Neil Shaw, a principal at Uptown Services LLC, a Boulder, Colorado, consulting firm the city hired to study the concept in 2002-2003. That estimate included an upgrade after 10 years to provide even greater speed. Uptown estimated revenue from the network would pay off that capital investment within 14 years. The cost of building fiber networks has gone down since 2003, Shaw added. Responses to the RFP have to be in by Nov. 28, and the city plans to identify the finalists on Dec. 18, according to the RFP. The timing of its final choice will depend on what responses come in and how long it takes to review them, said Kathy Bradley, the city's contract administrator.
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InfoWorld - A pact between GigaBeam, Microwave Satellite Technologies (MST) and Trump properties will see ultra high-speed wireless links installed in twenty of Trump's buildings on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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LOS ANGELES  - Showtime is high on  "Weeds."
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California's Apple Computer Co. will unveil a product that streams video and music from a Macintosh computer or the Internet to a television.
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New year, new target. AT&amp;T won't reach 18 million homes this year with its "Lightspeed" broadband network, after all. Instead, it will reach less than half the original target: 8 million.
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Tiny streaming-media developer EdgeStream sets sights on broadband set-top box market with some big claims.