Top Ten States in Wi-Fi InvestmentRhode Island tops, Ohio second... ( old news - 10:09AM Wednesday Sep 06 2006) tags: business · wirelessThe Rocky Mountain News ranks each state's investment on Wi-Fi technology, and reports that Rhode Island comes in at first place. The study, conducted by CDW (who if you've ever been in IT you probably can recall being phone-spammed by them), is based on customer purchases and therefore "doesn't offer a definitive analysis," claims the report. The top ten: Rhode Island, Ohio, Colorado, Utah, California, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Florida, and New York.
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Chesapeake, VA | Surprising I am surprised that Rhode Island is in the list. I haven't really heard anything regarding wifi with that state. The other states do not surprise me. | |
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Benton, AR | Re: Surprising well I guess it would only take one tower to cover the entire state so not like it would make much news lol. That state should be a county not a state ha ha. | |
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| Re: Surprising Oh I don't doubt that my kids grandparents are from Johnston RI, Just saying it would not take much to cover the state in Wimax, Land wise no doubting that. I guess you failed to see that it was posted out of humor not knocking the state. We pick on the family from up there and they pick on us. Still the state is more of a town than a state. Kinda like an over sized district of colombia. | |
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Benton, AR | Re: Surprising oh and you obviously did not look at population before spitting things out, Providence has about 10-15k people less than Little Rock. No biggy they sure can cram those people in there for people per square mile. | |
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1 edit | Re: Surprising Uh, Providence has an MSA of 1.6 million. Little Rock has 610k. | |
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Benton, AR | Re: Surprising are you sure your not checking metro population versus actual city population census shows them both to be neck and neck at mid 800,000 but what the heck does it matter anyways sheesh. | |
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| Re: This could be the dumbest thing I have ever read! said by wifi4milez  :Let me see if I understand CDW's "ranking" system. They have determined what STATES have invested the most in wifi based on CONSUMER purchases??? Move along, nothing to see here..... Not CONSUMERS but PUBLIC-SECTOR CUSTOMERS . Big difference there. Read it again.
from the article:
CDW Government Inc., a subsidiary of the $6.3 billion CDW Corp., examined the purchase records of several thousand of its public-sector customers from 2000 to 2005 and came up with a ranking of states. | |
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| Re: This could be the dumbest thing I have ever read! said by CtrlAltDel :said by wifi4milez :Let me see if I understand CDW's "ranking" system. They have determined what STATES have invested the most in wifi based on CONSUMER purchases??? Move along, nothing to see here..... Not CONSUMERS but PUBLIC-SECTOR CUSTOMERS . Big difference there. Read it again. from the article:CDW Government Inc., a subsidiary of the $6.3 billion CDW Corp., examined the purchase records of several thousand of its public-sector customers from 2000 to 2005 and came up with a ranking of states. Even still, that also includes all public companies (corporate) purchases in those states. So for instance, a state could have a very large HQ of a publicly traded company residing there. If that company purchased lots of wifi gear then this "study" would reflect it as THAT STATE having purchased the gear. I think that in order for this study to be more accurate they should have only noted the amount of purchases made directly by govt. organizations.
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@170.135.x.x | Re: This could be the dumbest thing I have ever read! Public sector != public company.
Public sector = government.
Publicly held companies are known as private sector. | |
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Marietta, GA | Huh? They based the ranking only on their own customers? That's a scientific survey. | |
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Minneapolis, MN | Just curious... How much interference is there betweem these WI-FI networks and 2.4 ghz cordless phones? | |
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