{"id":3339,"date":"2005-05-26T15:20:11","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T15:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/save-municipal-wireless.html"},"modified":"2005-05-26T15:20:11","modified_gmt":"2005-05-26T15:20:11","slug":"save-municipal-wireless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wimax\/save-municipal-wireless.html","title":{"rendered":"Save Municipal Wireless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">I just came upon this site <a href=\"http:\/\/savemuniwireless.org\/\">savemuniwireless.org<\/a> that focuses on furthering municipal wireless networks. There are lots of entries and analysis. The point of the site is to allow states\/cities\/municipalities to have their own wireless networks. As you may know LECs are fighting this trend as they consider states offering WiFi service &#8212; often for free, as a competitive threat. Currently the debate is centered on <a href=\"http:\/\/savemuniwireless.org\/blog\/000885.html\">Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A month or so ago it was centered around Philadelphia and TMCnet&#8217;s Bob Liu has an in-depth story on the happenings in the home of &quot;cheese steak&quot; and the &quot;liberty bell&quot; titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/tmcnet\/articles\/2005\/philadelphia-wifi-wireless-rfp-business.htm\">Philadelphia Unveils Citywide Wireless Business Plan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/tmcnet\/articles\/2005\/outdoor-cpe-required-wireless-philadelphia.htm\">Intense Planning, Indoor CPEs Required of Wireless Philadelphia Bidders<\/a>. (The author acknowledges that most people would probably list &quot;liberty bell&quot; first).<\/span><\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"><br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break\" \/><br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p \/><\/span><i><\/span \/><\/i><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"><\/p>\n<p \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came upon this site savemuniwireless.org that focuses on furthering municipal wireless networks. There are lots of entries and analysis. The point of the site is to allow states\/cities\/municipalities to have their own wireless networks. As you may know LECs are fighting this trend as they consider states offering WiFi service &#8212; often for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}