garmst
join:2000-09-17
New York, NY
 ·Speakeasy
| Muni WiFi was never technically feasible The lover affair with MuniWiFi was always fantasy. "Littering" a large area with 300ft-ish microcells makes no economic sense given the aquisition cost of the equipment, power costs and maintenance. Then on top of it you have to almost give it away to please a bunch of liberals in city GOV who won't pay for it themselves.
WiMAX was always the practical choice because of the larger signal footprint which translates into lower equipment and operation costs.
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DaveNJ
No Fear
join:1999-09-01
New Jersey
 ·Comcast
·Patriot Media
1 edit | Re: Muni WiFi was never technically feasible I think local governments should stay out of the telecom business. I can understand providing Wifi in schools, parks, government building etc. But citywide is a bit over the top. I do like the idea of community fiber, but i think it would be better if it were leased to a private corporation. | |
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viperm
Carpe Diem
Premium
join:2002-07-09
Winchester, CA | Re: Muni WiFi was never technically feasible Wimax is NOT the end all be all and it never will be. Why people thnk its going to outperform everything else wireless is a far cray from reality!
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Michieru_
@bellsouth.net | Re: Muni WiFi was never technically feasible Of course not, but it's a step in the right direction, where as these ideas simply did not. | |
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DaneJasper
Sonic.Net
Premium,VIP
join:2001-08-20
Santa Rosa, CA
clubs:
| said by DaveNJ  :I think local governments should stay out of the telecom business. I can understand providing Wifi in schools, parks, government building etc. But citywide is a bit over the top. I do like the idea of community fiber, but i think it would be better if it were leased to a private corporation. Muni WiFi doesn't mean that the city is going to pay for it, it just means it's "citywide". In this case, AT&T was going to build and pay for it, but has decided not to.
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firephoto
KDE
Premium
join:2003-03-18
·Verizon west (ex G..
| Re: Muni WiFi was never technically feasible said by DaneJasper :Muni WiFi doesn't mean that the city is going to pay for it, it just means it's "citywide". In this case, AT&T was going to build and pay for it, but has decided not to. This is the problem with the whole "muni-wifi" is failing crap lately. Some private company fails or doesn't continue on with their wifi for all pipe dream promises for a whole city and the city and municipal industry gets some bad press for a failure supposedly.
Guess what, AT&T got what they wanted, they kept out the competition and kept the city from doing something themselves and they keep servicing their broadband customers as always in that area.
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DaneJasper
Sonic.Net
Premium,VIP
join:2001-08-20
Santa Rosa, CA
clubs:
| Re: Muni WiFi was never technically feasible said by korym :I say let the people, i.e. the citizens, the matters in to their own hands. If it's a grassroots, community-supported, volunteer-based initiative, chances are it'll make it. Just my opinion.  Regards, Kory This is the direction we're going. More on this later today.
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