I learned from an eWeek article that the City of Philadelphia expects to announce its plans for a city-wide municipal WiFi network this week. See the eWeek article here:
Philadelphia to Announce Wi-Fi Expansion Plans
And the Web site for Wireless Philadelphia here.
That pending announcement explains the release this past week of a report from an organization called the New Millenium Research Council (NMRC) criticizing the municipal broadband trend. According to the eWeek article, the NMRC is actually owned by Issue Dynamics, a Washington lobbying firm that represents most of the major US telecom companies.
In his blog, Rich Tehrani provides the text of an NMRC announcement about its report. See Rich's entry:
Scholars working for the NMRC argue that market-based solutions are a better framework for delivering broadband rather than public efforts.
TMCnet will be following the Philadelphia WiFi story, so please visit our Web site later this week as news unfolds.
AB -- 2/5/05
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