Philly Considers Wireless Internet for All
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Forget finding an Internet cafe. For less than what it costs to build a small library, city officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world's largest wireless Internet hot spot.
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By Miriam Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Dec. 18--The grand experiment is about to begin.   Philadelphia's push to become the country's first major city with free, or at least cheap, wireless Internet connections, takes a big step forward this month as EarthLink Inc.
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Wi-Fi enabled phones, like the iPhone, will drive demand  for fast wireless broadband networks like the ones cities want to build using Wi-Fi, say experts.
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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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By JUDY O'ROURKE  SANTA CLARITA -- The days of patronizing certain food or coffee joints to tap a wireless Internet feed may soon be past, with citywide access on the horizon.
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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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Philadelphia and Verizon Communications Inc. were nearing an agreement Tuesday that would allow the city to provide wireless Internet access as a municipal service, even if Gov. Ed Rendell signs legislation to give Verizon the power to pre-empt the project.
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Philadelphia officials have laid the  groundwork to provide wireless, high-speed Internet access  anywhere in the city, but their plan is threatened under a  state bill that could be signed into law on Tuesday.
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Households in Newtown, Yardley and Doylestown will be among the first in the region to have access to new high-speed Internet services from Verizon.
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Pennsylvania may block Philly's Wi-Fi plan. [News.com Extra]
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By DAVID B. CARUSO    PHILADELPHIA  -- For about $10 million, city officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world's largest wireless Internet hot spot...
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PHILADELPHIA: For about US$10mil (RM38mil), city officials here believe they can turn all 345 sq km of Philadelphia into the world&#39;s largest wireless Internet hotspot (www.
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A prospective buyer says the early municipal Wi-Fi service could have thousands more subscribers.
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Approval of Earthlink's test network clears the way for the company to bring Wi-Fi to all of Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia will be able to go  ahead with plans to set up a city-wide wireless, high-speed  Internet network, but other Pennsylvania cities might not get  that chance under a new state law.
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Will launch a fixed wireless service in a 'major city' next year
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By Kris Hundley, St. Petersburg Times, Fla.  Sep. 7--On the day St. Petersburg took a giant step toward eventually  providing citywide wireless Internet capability, a familiar face said it was  already providing wi-fi capability, at least in parts of the city.