Oklahoma City is launching what it claims to be the world's largest city-owned municipal Wi-Fi mesh network. The city-wide network will be used only for public safety and municipal applications. It is not open to the public. According to Muniwireless, who talked to Mark Meier, IT director of Oklahoma City, the network covers 555 square

MetroFi is trying to sell its citywide Wi-Fi networks in Portland (Oregon), Aurora and Naperville (Illinois) and Santa Clara, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Foster City and Concord (California), reports Muniwireless and WiFiNetNews. MetroFi founder, Chuck Haas, says he is also exploring the sale of MetroFi itself to a third party, according to Wifinetnews. If no buyers emerge, Haas

Muniwireless notes a couple of municipal wireless developments: The Colorado Wireless Communities (CWC), a group of 10 cities in Colorado near Boulder, are wondering whether they should continue trying to work with C-Com, a Boulder-based service provider, whom they picked to deploy the wireless broadband network. C-Com has not been …

Muniwireless notes a couple of municipal wireless developments: Sydney's free WiFi plan has been abandoned. The Minister for Commerce evaluated proposals from 15 providers but concluded it wasn't practical based on technical and financial grounds. The free broadband initiative was first announced in November 2006, just before last year's state election. But, “the overseas experience is

According to a report from the New York Times, muniwireless is experiencing a slow death. "All these cities had this hype hangover late last year when EarthLink announced its intentions to pull ...

Carol Ellison of MuniWireless reports Long Island's planned $105 million, 750 square mile wireless network is going nowhere. E-Path, a Tampa-based company, was selected by the counties last August. They promised free access and planned to offset its costs through advertising and anchor tenant sponsorships, but failed to attract either. It doesn't have the funding

A new report from Connected Nation (pdf) predicts that the current legislation promoting broadband development in the U.S. could provide an economic stimulus of as much as $134 billion annually. The report was an obvious pitch for Congress to get behind broadband, says MuniWireless. Connected Nation stresses more DSL and fiber. It's modeled after the

Carol Ellison in MuniWireless writes: Much is being made this week about Starbucks dumping T-Mobile as its Wi-Fi provider and signing on with AT&T in a deal that will result in limited free Wi-Fi access for its customers. I've seen a few blogs that have gone so far as to declare this traditional hotspot model an

MuniWireless.com mentions an interesting conference by NewAmerica.Net, The Future of Municipal Wireless: The Two States of Pennsylvania. The future of Philadelphia's network, along with hundreds of municipal wireless projects, has become uncertain as subscriptions lagged, service proved expensive and prone to interference, and revenue models struggled. Earthlink is now getting out of the municipal

Twenty two towns in rural Vermont are planning a regional fiber-optic network. It could be ready by the end of 2009, reports MuniWireless. The East Central Vermont Community Fiber Network, ValleyFiber, Vermont Telecommunications Authority and Vermont Rural Broadband Project are participants. The East Central Vermont Community Fiber Network announced the plan this week. The Vermont Telecommunicatio