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The city of San Marcos is having second thoughts about a citywide WiFi plan due to the potential cost. Two years ago, San Marcos city leaders were eager to get a wireless network started. Like leaders of other cities, they … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Dwight points to this article about some of the issues that the cities who have pioneered municipal WiFi service have encountered. Joe Lusardi’s friends back in New York couldn’t believe it when he told them he’d have free Internet access … Continue reading → Continue reading →

13th Floor contemplates the death of Philadelphia’s municipal WiFi service and wonders if there might be a better way to deliver the same thing. Sipping my coffee and tapping out e-mails at Powell’s Books, I couldn’t help thinking about a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So we know that EarthLink is basically abandoning the municipal WiFi market, and we know that the original deal the city had with EarthLink is more or less kaput, in spirit if not yet in legal terms. Where do we … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There’s good news and not-so-good news in this story on Philadelphia’s experience with municipal WiFi as provided by EarthLink. Testing by the Houston Chronicle and a private consulting company show that the first phase of Philadelphia’s project works — most … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Dwight notes that EarthLink is rethinking its municipal WiFi commitment. Following a quarter in which it posted a loss of $29.96 million broadband provider EarthLink said it is reviewing four of its Wi-Fi deployments in Philadelphia, Anaheim, Milpitas and New … Continue reading → Continue reading →

EarthLink is it in San Francisco. EarthLink Municipal Networks, one of the finalists to provide citywide wireless Internet in Houston, has reached an agreement with the city of San Francisco to build a network there and offer free access to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The march of municipal WiFi comes to El Paso. Downtown El Paso soon will be home to a free wireless Internet network. City and county officials say the WiFi network, which will also be available in parts of South El … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just wanted to pass along a little blurb in the Wireless Report on the progress of municipal WiFi networks in suburban communities near Fort Worth. [E]ight cities in the Northeast portion of Tarrant County now offer free or low-cost WiFi … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Dwight links to a story on the municipal WiFi rollout in Corpus Christi. The network, projected to be complete this summer, could drive down Internet prices around town and increase service quality. City officials also envision the wireless access making … Continue reading → Continue reading →

And the march to municipal WiFi takes another step forward in Austin. The city is partnering with Cisco Systems Inc., the largest maker of computer networking equipment, and the World Congress of Information Technology on the project. Cisco will donate … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Nancy Sarnoff says that WiFi is beginning to get built in to new suburban housing developments. The developer of Seven Meadows, a new master-planned community in Katy, has made wireless Internet access available at its six-acre park and recreation area. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Dwight reports on the city’s downtown WiFi-enabled parking meters. That may sound silly, but there’s a purpose for it – the wireless networking will allow the meters to accept and verify credit cards for payment. My main reason for parking … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Dwight points to this story about the battle over free municipal WiFi elsewhere in the country. HB789 and its ilk are popping up in state leges all over the country, and the telcos are duking it out with the cities … Continue reading → Continue reading →