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Meraki’s Guerilla Wi-Fi To Put A Billion More People Online

By Steve Stroh
Like some kind of techno-utopian Johnny Appleseed, a start-up called Meraki wants to cover the earth with ad hoc Wi-Fi networks Harlem’s first Starbucks, heralded as a sign of urban renewal when it opened in 1999, sits at the intersection of 125th Street and Lenox Avenue, just down the street from the historic Apollo Theater.  [...]
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Struggling Sprint Pushes Its Chips Toward WiMax

By Steve Stroh
Survival May Depend on Untested Service Sprint Nextel is trying to reverse a string of recent disappointments. Having lost ground to its rivals over the past year and struggled with problems with its old Nextel network, the Reston wireless company is hoping to find its footing by building a high-speed network using an untested technology [...]
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WiMAX Looms As Muni Network Option

By Steve Stroh
(Fourth in a series) Wireless access in general, and Wi-Fi technology in particular, has been very attractive to municipalities wanting to improve broadband communications for multiple reasons. One of the most obvious is the fact that laptops and PCs now come routinely equipped with Wi-Fi access, and the access network equipment is also widely available [...]
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EarthLink Dedicates Wi-Fi Network In Corpus Christi

By Steve Stroh
Dedicated this week, the 55-square-mile municipal wireless network traces its genesis to a dog. Internet provider EarthLink and the city of Corpus Christi, Texas dedicated a 55-square-mile municipal Wi-Fi network this week, thanks in part to a dog. “It started as a way to protect water meter readers,” recalled EarthLink’s Donald Berryman in an interview [...]
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AT&T WiMax Heading South?

By Steve Stroh
AT&T (NYSE: T) is preparing to launch WiMax services during the second quarter of 2008, Unstrung has learned from an industry source. The services will likely be in the South of the U.S. where the operator has suitable licenses for broadband wireless services. The cellular giant is planning to deploy limited WiMax services in the [...]
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Cisco Wooing WiMax Vendors?

By Steve Stroh
Cisco Systems Inc. is close to buying a WiMax base-station company in its first real dalliance with the wireless broadband technology, two industry sources tell Unstrung. The networking giant could buy within a matter of weeks, according to one source. “It’s in legals now,” the source says. Both sources agree that Cisco has narrowed it [...]
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Analyst: Cisco Eyeballing Navini

By Steve Stroh
Is Cisco Systems aiming to become the next big WiMAX vendor? Technology analyst firm Think Equity believes so, and it’s betting Cisco will make its WiMAX move through the acquisition of Navini. Navini is long-time broadband wireless company that several years ago shifted development from its proprietary CDMA-based nomadic platform to today’s Mobile WiMAX platform. [...]
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Sustaining The Municipal Wireless Network

By Steve Stroh
While the overwhelming majority of today’s discussion about municipal wireless networks focuses on the technical aspects, also critical is working out the business models that detail how these networks will financially justify their existence. Whether we continually support these networks using public funds – thereby making them susceptible to political whims – or we turn [...]
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