Zhang, Mingliu and Richard Wolff (2004). Using WiFi for Cost-Effective Broadband Wireless Access in Rural and Remote Areas. Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2004. IEEE. Volume 3, Issue 21-25, March 2004: 1347 – 1352. http://www.coe.montana.edu/ee/rwolff/WCNC-%20conf-final.pdf
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Five Business Models for Muni-Wireless Networks
Submitted by ethos on Wed, 10/03/2007 - 02:10.
Wireless Philadelphia Executive Committee (2005). Business Model Analysis (p. 30-34). Wireless Philadelphia Business Plan. February 9, 2005. http://www.phila.gov/wireless/pdfs/Wireless-Phila-Business-Plan-040305-1...
Creating a Wireless Network
Submitted by ethos on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 16:06.
Stone, Matt (2005). Community Guidebook. Wireless Broadband: The Foundation for Digital Communities. Civitium. Community "Cookbook" Series, organized by Muniwireless.com. http://www.muniwireless.com/reports/docs/MWcookbook2005.pdf This document (31 pages) is designed to guide municipalities through the entire process of creating a municipal broadband network. It can also help community members, policy makers, researchers, and other stakeholders understand important steps in this process.
A Guide for Communities on Wireless Technology and Broadband Infrastructure
Submitted by ethos on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:58.
Center for Digital Government (2006). Building the Untethered Nation: A Strategic Guide for Communities on Wireless Technology and Broadband Infrastructure. http://www-01.ibm.com/industries/government/ieg/pdf/wireless_guide.pdf
Wireless Harlem
Submitted by ethos on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:52.
Wireless Harlem http://www.wirelessharlem.org
Corpus Christi, TX - List of Wireless Applications
Submitted by ethos on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 01:50.
Corpus Christi, TX - List of Wireless Applications
http://www.cctexas.com/wifiportal/wirelessapplicationssummaries.pdf
Corpus Christi, TX (pop. 280,000) is a pioneer of wireless applications for municipal services. This document gives short descriptions of each of the city’s wireless applications, both operational and planned. These include, for example, automated meter reading, in car video policing, and mobile emergency web operations. Use this document to gain a better understanding of the breadth of possible wireless network applications.
What if They Built an Urban Wireless Network and Hardly Anyone Used It?
Submitted by ethos on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 01:38.
Belson, K. (2006). What if They Built an Urban Wireless Network and Hardly Anyone Used It? New York Times. June 26, 2006. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/technology/26taipei.html?ex=1308974400...
Into the Great Wide Open
Submitted by lauram on Mon, 10/01/2007 - 04:48.
By Jesse Sunenblick
Columbia Journalism Review at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, CJR January/February 2005
This article considers the origins, present uses and possible transformative properties of a new frequency-hopping technology called "spread spectrum". Currently, the transformative powers of spread spectrum are difficult to tap into due to old FCC restrictions on spectrum, and the private industry's designs for privatizing the remainder of unlicensed spectrum.
Wireless is Changing the Policy Calculus
Submitted by amelia on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 13:21.
Lehr, W. H., Sirbu, M. A., Gillett, S. E. (2006). Wireless is Changing
the Policy Calculus for Municipal Broadband. Government Information
Quarterly, 23:480–502. PDF:
http://cfp.mit.edu/groups/broadband/docs/2006/Wireless_Changing.pdf
This article summarizes traditional justifications for municipal entry
into communication services: (1) as a response to a market failure; (2)
as part of the local government’s role in providing basic
infrastructure services; or (3) as a way to opportunistically take
advantage of scale or scope economies afforded by investments or
Rural Wireless: Umatilla County
Submitted by amelia on Wed, 06/27/2007 - 23:46.
Perkowski, Mike (2007): Rural Wireless: Umatilla County built a network for an application it doesn't want to deploy…and now uses it for everything else. Muniwireless Magazine, March 2007, p. 28-34. http://www.muniwireless.com/reports/MW005.pdf
