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the Philly network was supposed to be up last summer, yet it appears to be bogged down in red tape more than ever before. As of now I dont see it EVER happening there.
Not true. The city council only just unanimously supported the city's Earthlink Wi-Fi plan last week. A few signatures and a few permits and building will begin. A lot of the delay, if you recall, was dealing with Verizon and getting around the state-law they passed prohibiting such ventures.

Not sure where the doom and gloom is coming from, most cities have only just announced plans over the last year.


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said by Karl Bode See Profile :

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the Philly network was supposed to be up last summer, yet it appears to be bogged down in red tape more than ever before. As of now I dont see it EVER happening there.
Not true. The city council only just unanimously supported the city's Earthlink Wi-Fi plan last week. A few signatures and a few permits and building will begin. A lot of the delay, if you recall, was dealing with Verizon and getting around the state-law they passed prohibiting such ventures.

Not sure where the doom and gloom is coming from, most cities have only just announced plans over the last year.
I never specified what the red tape was, all I said was that it was bogged down. My other point is that if you carefully read some of the press releases you will see that EL is only building a "test" network first
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EarthLink will start building the network in June over a 15-square-mile test area that would cover parts of North and South Philadelphia. The test should take three to four months, said Clifton Roscoe, director of major projects for EarthLink.
I am not saying that they will not then go on to build out the rest of the city (which I truly hope they do!), I just have a feeling that it will be severely delayed by a number of things. I hear the major down there is a complete moron as well, for what its worth.
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Who ever said that Philly wi-fi was supposed to be out last summer as you stated in your original post?


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said by tapeloop See Profile :

Who ever said that Philly wi-fi was supposed to be out last summer as you stated in your original post?
They did!

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Philadelphia's city government is studying plans to deploy Wi-Fi wireless LAN access points throughout the city, each offering IEEE 802.11b access and linked to others via a wireless mesh network, said Dinanah Neff, the city's chief information officer. Deployment is set to begin in June 2005
»www.infoworld.com/article/04/11/···i_1.html
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I didn't know that DEPLOYMENT = FINISHED, DONE, READY FOR PRIMETIME.


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I didn't know that DEPLOYMENT = FINISHED, DONE, READY FOR PRIMETIME.
And who exactly said that it did? The current "deployment" is exactly zero right now so either way your rude comment is off base. I am just pointing out how much trouble these large deployments have been having. No need to get testy about it.
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