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County of America’s 1st Wi-Fi city stays unconnected
(old news - 02:12PM Sunday Apr 08 2007)
tags: wireless · municipal
Grand Haven, MI made headlines back in 2004 as the first “hot spot” offering city-wide Wi-Fi. The area had big plans, including county-wide Wi-Fi that would give high-speed internet access to all people – rural and urban – throughout the entire county. Back then, it seemed feasible to complete the plan by the end of 2007 but now the county has to admit that it’s not going to happen. Broadbreeze Communications, the company providing the technology for the project, underwent some sales and the county needs to look elsewhere to get the work done. Currently, the report is that the best case scenario would be involvement by Clearwire which would put the plan “only” eighteen months behind schedule.

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depster

join:2001-06-07
Grand Rapids, MI

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Looks like Grand Haven is making a good choice... why not hop on the shirt tails of Grand Rapids decision to go with WiMax.

»www.ci.grand-rapids.mi.us/index.···_id=5028
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NJxxxJon
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Ha

Right. And maybe gang violence will decrease also.

TKJunkMail
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This is reflective of many WiFi city projects

This is hardly surprising. Many, if not most, citywide WiFi projects are horribly behind schedule and also provide poor coverage even for those that have gone forward.
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Re: This is reflective of many WiFi city projects

said by TKJunkMail See Profile :

This is hardly surprising. Many, if not most, citywide WiFi projects are horribly behind schedule and also provide poor coverage even for those that have gone forward.
Companies that make the promise of providing 100% ubiquitous WiFi coverage in cities are really writing their own ticket to failure.
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cjkeeme

join:2003-01-06
Tucson, AZ

Re: This is reflective of many WiFi city projects

Agreed. The spectrum is so noisy. Imagine being in a room with thousands of people, each representing an access point, and trying to broadcast a message that everyone can hear. Just not going to happen.

Think smaller. That's what my company did.

cork1958
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Fruitport, MI
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Like most other projects in MI.

Just like most other projects and most everything else. MI. is behind the times, period.

Except for unemployment anyway. WAY ahead of everybody else there!!
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there is City wide WIfi but

But for the Cost

i can get 20/5 biz class with Time wanner Cable

»www.avradionet.com/
$110.00

UP TO 1.5 MB CONNECTION LMFAO

they use the "over used channel 11"

they also use WEP for security

quetwo
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East Lansing, MI

Re: there is City wide WIfi but

However, in Grand Haven, there is very limited DSL, and the cable provider of the area is Charter... ugh. Charter.
truocchio

join:2004-07-05
Miami Beach, FL

I dont want to say it just yet......

but I cant hold back.

I told you so.

The city of miami beach hasn't put up a single tropos node in months now. The city is already months behind schedule and less then 20% of the city has nodes installed (mostly left overs from the "trial period").

It is not that muni wi-fi is a bad concept, it is that it is technically infeasible with a muni's limited budget and existing infrastructure. Many cities are now finding out the hard way....wait let me digress. Tax payers are now finding out the hard way. I take no joy in this, just saddened by the waste that I, and many experienced in the industry, saw coming a mile away.

I hope many muni's can salvage their efforts and do something positive and effective in bringing competition and better value to their marketplace/constituencies.

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