[IP] Boston's plan for WiFi (fwd)
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From: Stephen Ronan <sronan@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: July 31, 2006 2:05:08 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Boston's plan for WiFi (fwd)
Glenn Fleishman re Boston:
http://wifinetnews.com/
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:03:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Ronan <sronan@xxxxxxxxx>
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Boston's plan for WiFi (fwd)
Extracted from today's Boston Globe:
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Hub sets citywide WiFi plan
Nonprofit to install `open access' hookups
By Robert Weisman, Globe Staff | July 31, 2006
Boston will tap a nonprofit corporation to blanket the city with
``open access" wireless Internet connections, under a plan to be
unveiled today by Mayor Thomas M. Menino.
The plan, which envisions raising $16 million to $20 million from
local businesses and foundations, is a striking departure from the
business models used by other cities, including Philadelphia and San
Francisco, which have turned over responsibility for their wireless
data networks to outside companies such as Earthlink Inc. and Google
Inc.
By empowering an independent organization to own and operate the
city's WiFi, or wireless fidelity, network, Boston is hoping to keep
control of the technology deployment and use it to spur innovation,
improve city services, and extend wireless Internet access into low-
income neighborhoods across the so-called digital divide. WiFi allows
laptops, handheld computers, cellphones, music players, and other
devices to connect to the Internet at high speeds via radio waves.
[...]
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Full story at:
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/07/31/
hub_sets_citywide_wifi_plan/
- Stephen Ronan
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