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  • From: Will R <chtechboard AT yahoo.com>
  • To: Terri Buckner <tbuckner AT ibiblio.org>, ggerdau AT intelor.com
  • Cc: Mark Kleinschmidt <mark AT cdpl.org>, Chapel Hill Information Technology Advisory Committee <chtechcomm AT lists.ibiblio.org>, 'David Lewis' <dnmjlewis AT hotmail.com>, Gregg Gerdau <ggerdau AT intelor.com>
  • Subject: Re: [Chtechcomm] Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act pending Federal legislation
  • Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 11:55:36 -0700 (PDT)

Terri,

Here's an interesting article on how Philly's muni-network plans seem to have
finally spurred the
monopolists to start providing service.

http://dailywireless.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4481&src=rss10

The article mentions this report on the current state of muni-networking:

http://muniwireless.com/reports/docs/July2005report.pdf

Here's the article:

As if to faceoff with Wireless Philadelphia, the planned city-wide WiFi
network, Cingular
Wireless, the country's largest wireless provider, today announced it will
invest more than $200
million this year in the Greater Philadelphia area - including turning on-air
approximately 140
new cell sites. Nationwide, the company is spending more than $6 billion
dollars on its ALLOVER
network, the nation's largest digital voice and data network.

"Better wireless coverage and performance is exactly what Cingular is
delivering in more places
than ever before in metropolitan Philadelphia, central and northeastern
Pennsylvania and
Delaware," said Glen Robinson, Cingular's Executive Director Network
Services, Greater
Philadelphia.

"We have also boosted network capacity by approximately 30% over the last six
months so that our
customers experience fewer dropped calls whether they're using their Cingular
service at home, at
work or on vacation." So far this year, Cingular has turned on more than 55
new cell sites in the
Greater Philadelphia area.

Meanwhile, Verizon now has 500,000 subscribers for EV-DO compared to its 40
or so million voice
subscribers. Sprint's just released EV-DO pricing is $80 unlimited, but it
also offers a $40 plan
for 40 megabytes that is capped at $90 if users exceed their quota.

Philadelphia, also the corporate home of Comcast, is building a huge
municipal Wifi network, and
should decide on a company in the next few days.

Meanwhile, The Muniwireless Second Anniversary Report is out. You can
download it here (PDF
format).

The Report contains a list of municipalities around the world that have
deployed or are about to
deploy citywide wireless broadband networks. In addition to the list are
tables that show how much
they are spending on their networks, what applications they are using and the
business models they
are implementing to meet their goals.

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