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InternetNews June 24, 2005 Roy Mark	Muni Wi-Fi Aims to Close Digital Divide Private enterprise broadband providers ignoring the growing digital divide should expect competition from local municipalities.
InternetNews October 31, 2007 Sean Gallagher	Senate Panel Blesses Community Broadband A Senate panel has approved legislation banning states' efforts to prevent local governments from providing community broadband access.
Entrepreneur February 2007 Amanda C. Kooser	What Can Muni Wi-Fi Do for Your Biz? Tune in to the opportunities citywide Wi-Fi projects bring.
PC Magazine August 3, 2005 John C. Dvorak	Disserving the Public The United States has dropped to 16th in the world in per capita broadband deployment, and we can expect to slip further. While there is local interest in improving the situation, state and federal officials will make sure it doesn't happen.
InternetNews August 17, 2005 Eric Griffith	San Francisco Looks To Wireless Future San Francisco's TechConnect program is on the starting block to offer 'affordable broadband' - not necessarily free.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	New York City Plans To Give Residents $70 Million Worth Of Wi-Fi In an effort to further bridge the New York City's digital divide, the de Blasio administration is spending $70 million to expand cheap, high-speed broadband across the five boroughs, the city announced today.
InternetNews March 19, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Wi-Fi Crowd's Must-Have: Mesh HotZones Mesh vendors tout new architecture at Wi-Fi Planet show.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 David Kushner	Wi-Fi for the People Philadelphia plans to become the biggest wireless hot spot ever. But Philadelphia's plan is not designed just to put computers into underserved areas; it also aims to teach people how to use them.
BusinessWeek September 5, 2005 Catherine Yang	Wi-Fi With Its Own Zip Code As more municipalities set up wireless networks, a fast-moving business emerges.
InternetNews November 30, 2004 Michael Singer	Wi-Fi Firms Look Ahead to RFID, VoIP As the Wi-Fi sector passes through another stage of development, industry leaders are converging in Silicon Valley this week to discuss the latest trends.
InternetNews October 4, 2005 Eric Griffith	EarthLink Scores with Philadelphia EarthLink launches its municipal wireless division with a win as the pick for Wireless Philadelphia.
InternetNews March 7, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	Muni Wi-Fi's Second Chance Wi-Fi networks can work with a little tweaking, a new study finds.
Entrepreneur October 2005 Mike Hogan	Phone on the Range Head to the country, where Wi-Fi roams free and unrestricted by big-city politics. You'll be encouraged by the possibilities.
The Motley Fool August 30, 2007 Dave Mock	Too Windy for Wi-Fi While Chicago's decision and EarthLink's troubles don't spell the end of municipal wireless, it is increasingly clear that such networks will face a higher level of scrutiny regarding costs and returns on their investments.
BusinessWeek May 21, 2007 Ronald Grover	Municipal Wi-Fi: A Failure To Communicate Municipal Wi-Fi networks don't quite deliver on the promise of wide-ranging access.
PC Magazine February 27, 2008 John Brandon	Municipal Wireless on the Ropes The Utopian vision of wireless for all city residents is starting to fade.
InternetNews June 3, 2005 Roy Mark	Legislation Aims to Stop Muni Wi-Fi A new bill would prohibit state and local governments from competing with private-sector broadband providers.
InternetNews December 17, 2004 Michael Singer	Nomadix President and CEO Kurt Bauer The man behind the company that specializes in public and guest access offers his views on the 'free wireless access' movement, roaming technologies and losing a good friend.
Inc. July 2006 Martha Baer	Wi-Fi for the Masses Tropos Networks aims to bring the high-speed internet to everyone. Here's how the company is doing it - one city at a time.
PC World August 2005 Tom Spring	ISPs Attempt to Stop Public Broadband Cable and DSL providers battle cities that want to offer access to residents.
InternetNews June 23, 2005 Roy Mark	McCain Bill Would Help Municipal Wi-Fi New bill seeks to block state and incumbent telecoms' efforts to keep cities out of broadband business.
InternetNews April 29, 2005 Tim Gray	Verizon Wireless Cuts NYC Wi-Fi Verizon Wireless is pulling the plug on its free wireless Internet access service that uses New York City phone booths as "hotspots" for its DSL subscribers.
InternetNews September 22, 2004 Colin C. Haley	VZ Wireless Expands 3G Markets Verizon Wireless is launching its mobile broadband data service in 11 new cities on Monday. The BroadbandAccess offering is already available in Las Vegas, San Diego and Washington, D.C.
Entrepreneur July 2008 Amanda C. Kooser	Public Offering A grass-roots wireless network is flourishing in San Francisco. How was it built?
BusinessWeek October 4, 2004 Yang & Green	Welcome to Broadband City Towns are rushing to build Wi-Fi systems. Cable and phone giants don't like it one bit.
IEEE Spectrum February 2008 Jeremy Hsu	Wi-Fi Cloud Hovers Over Salt Lake City Researchers map the invisible geography of wireless networks.
InternetNews August 16, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	Google Unwires a City Google today turned on free Internet access for all of Mountain View, Calif.
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InternetNews March 17, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Canada Pushes for More Wi-Fi At the Wi-Fi Planet show in Toronto, presenters say wireless is pervasive, though most don't want to pay for it outside of the enterprise.
BusinessWeek July 30, 2007 Stephen H. Wildstrom	T-Mobile Dials Up Wi-Fi The new wireless service HotSpot@Home is easy to use, but the handsets aren't great. Traditionally laborious to initiate, T-Mobil's new approach to Wi-Fi set up is completely automated.
PC Magazine February 8, 2008 Dan Costa	Muni Wi-Fi's Weak Signal When I log on to the Web at my apartment in Hoboken, I see 11 Wi-Fi networks, half of them open. So why should I pay taxes for muni Wi-Fi?
Fast Company David Lumb	Google Reveals A Pay-Per-GB Wireless Service Google has just confirmed its wireless service, called Project Fi.
Knowledge@Wharton March 26, 2003	Wi-Fi: A Wild Card in Telecom's Restructuring A wild card as the industry restructures is a technology called "wi-fi." Wi-fi is such a hot area -- one of the few pockets of optimism on the tech scene today -- that a recent Wharton conference presented a panel devoted to discussing its potential.
InternetNews April 20, 2004 Roy Mark	Verizon: Old Rules Slow Broadband Rollout The competitive landscape has changed since 1996, but the law governing carriers hasn't, a Baby Bell exec said.
InternetNews January 9, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Vonage Inks Earthlink to Wi-Fi Deal Internet phone company Vonage inked a three-year agreement with EarthLink, allowing the Internet access provider to offer Wi-Fi access to customers served by municipal wireless networks.
HBS Working Knowledge February 14, 2005 Julie Jette	Will Traditional Broadband Stand Up against Wi-Fi and WiMAX? With wireless broadband capabilities expanding significantly, it looks like "regular" broadband providers and cellular phone services have their work cut out for them. But maybe there is room for everybody.
Wired March 2005	Trackback Orkut says you can only have up to 1,000 friends... It's an open secret that the US intelligence community has its own classified, highly secure Internet... etc.
Entrepreneur July 2003 Dayton & Worrell	Wireless Wealth The Wi-Fi revolution is coming. Find out how your business can get in on the ground floor and rope in profits.
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BusinessWeek November 10, 2003 Stephen H. Wildstrom	A Wireless Net That Leaves Wi-Fi Behind Verizon's experimental service in Washington shows promise
Popular Mechanics August 2007 Glenn Derene	Mesh Networking Takes Wi-Fi to the Masses: Emerging Tech Most Wi-Fi hot spots work by taking a hard-wired Internet connection and distributing it over a 300-ft. radius from a wireless hub. This works fine for a single location, but what if you want to blanket a large area with wireless access?
InternetNews August 29, 2005 Colin C. Haley	VZ Wireless Slashes Broadband Price Hoping to entice voice customers to add data service, Verizon Wireless has cut the price of its broadband service by 25 percent.
InternetNews November 29, 2005 David Needle	Wi-Fi Still Booming Sales of chipsets that enable wireless connectivity topped 100 million units this year.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2007	Market growth to slow for Wi-Fi mesh networking Shipments of Wi-Fi mesh networking equipment will grow by more than threefold between 2006 and 2011, yet most of that growth will come between 2006 and 2008 and decline rapidly starting in 2009.
Fast Company November 2005	Voice Over Wi-Fi Overall, sound quality was as good as a regular cell phone on Vonage's Wi-Fi-powered handset. And as more areas add Wi-Fi, it could beat other plays. But which premium service is best? T-Mobile HotSpots... Boingo Wireless...
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InternetNews January 27, 2006 David Needle	Silicon Valley Gears Up Wireless Plans Smart Valley announced the signing Thursday of an agreement to develop a Request for Proposal to design a high-speed wireless data network that will cover all of Silicon Valley.