{"id":4470,"date":"2006-05-19T08:49:04","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T08:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/houston-wifi.html"},"modified":"2006-05-19T08:49:04","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T08:49:04","slug":"houston-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/broadband\/houston-wifi.html","title":{"rendered":"Houston WiFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Houston has released a draft for city-wide WiFi according to <a href=\"http:\/\/savemuniwireless.org\/blog\/001109.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">Save Muni Wireless<\/font><\/a>. Here are some interesting details from the blog entry:<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><em>The City&#8217;s vision is to apply ubiquitous, low-cost wireless Internet access as a foundation for the City of Houston to become the most efficient, effective and responsive city government in the nation&mdash;while stimulating economic <\/em>development and promoting digital inclusion for low-income and disadvantaged residents.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>One remarkable part of this proposal is that it explicitly embraces the concept of &quot;net neutrality&quot;. The City will require that the operator open up the network to wholesale service, which would allow any ISP to participate. Chalk that up to another exciting innovation that&#8217;s being driven by muni networks.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>It would seem that in the long run, service providers will see more and more competition from the cities.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Houston has released a draft for city-wide WiFi according to Save Muni Wireless. Here are some interesting details from the blog entry: &nbsp; The City&#8217;s vision is to apply ubiquitous, low-cost wireless Internet access as a foundation for the City of Houston to become the most efficient, effective and responsive city government in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,175],"tags":[251,1163,920,254],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470"}],"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=4470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}