Comments on: California, the Wi-Fi state http://gigaom.com/2007/03/02/cali-wi-fi/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: i4g.mobi » Wee-Fry: Short Items for Friday, March 2 http://gigaom.com/2007/03/02/cali-wi-fi/#comment-136146 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 06:39:15 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/cali-wi-fi/#comment-136146 [...] Round-up of California muni/metro projects: GigaOm runs the tally of projects across the state that will bring vast areas of Wi-Fi. [...]

]]> By: fires » California, the Wi-Fi state http://gigaom.com/2007/03/02/cali-wi-fi/#comment-136145 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:54:53 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/cali-wi-fi/#comment-136145 [...] Original post by Katie Fehrenbacher [...]

]]> By: Eric DaVersa http://gigaom.com/2007/03/02/cali-wi-fi/#comment-136144 Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:26:26 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/cali-wi-fi/#comment-136144 That’s actually only half of the list. Several cities such as Culver City and Santa Monica have pilots up, and RFPs out for more.

I have 94 CA cities on my list…and those are only the ones with a public announcement of some sort. 517 cities in the US in total. Yet that’s only 5% of the municipalites in the USA.

]]> By: Esme Vos http://gigaom.com/2007/03/02/cali-wi-fi/#comment-136143 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:41:16 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/cali-wi-fi/#comment-136143 I keep a list (regularly updated) of US cities (and counties) that have: (1) city- or countywide networks up and running; (2) city hotzones; (3) networks used for municipal purposes only such as public safety; and (4) definitive plans for a network (networks not yet up but an RFP or RFI has been issued).

The last update was end of December 2006 and I will be updating it again this month:
http://muniwireless.com/reports/docs/Dec-29-2006summary.pdf

]]> By: Laura Lemay http://gigaom.com/2007/03/02/cali-wi-fi/#comment-136138 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:58:24 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/cali-wi-fi/#comment-136138 Los Gatos (south end of silicon valley) has had free no-ads municipal wifi since 2003. A quick google shows that it was a company called Firetide that set up the mesh.

]]> By: Robert Bole http://gigaom.com/2007/03/02/cali-wi-fi/#comment-136142 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:18:18 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/cali-wi-fi/#comment-136142 I will give you that a big state like California has engaged with municipal wifi, but at the moment it is a mile wide and an inch deep. I would push some friendly neighbor rivalry and suggest that you look north to Oregon for deeper engagements with both mesh wireless and WiMax.

But ultimately the real interesting question is not do you have a network up, but what are you doing with that network. What intentional objective is a city trying to accomplish by encouraging or even helping to implement a network? That seems to be a lost question in many deployments today.

]]> By: AaronZ http://gigaom.com/2007/03/02/cali-wi-fi/#comment-136140 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:43:14 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/cali-wi-fi/#comment-136140 Cupertino is on the list.

BTW – The Yankee Group issued a report that covers some of the WiFi technologies and deployments at universities and the like. The way I read it, their take is that the technology is ready for campus environments (universities, corporate, etc.) but not quite for city-wide deployments.

]]> By: Katie Fehrenbacher http://gigaom.com/2007/03/02/cali-wi-fi/#comment-136141 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:50:06 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/cali-wi-fi/#comment-136141 Right thanks.

]]> By: routerguy http://gigaom.com/2007/03/02/cali-wi-fi/#comment-136139 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:40:33 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/cali-wi-fi/#comment-136139 Fullerton CA has muni wi-fi as well. fullerton wireless page

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