The November 12, 2007 issue of Forbes Magazine (www.forbes.com) included a story about road blocks encountered by Earthlink in setting up municipal Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) networks. Earthlink has installed city wide Wi-Fi service in Anaheim, CA, New Orleans, LA and Milpitas, CA. A similar planned deal with San Francisco, CA has fallen through.
In the process of installing these Wi-Fi networks, Earthlink discovered that installation costs were about twice as much as expected. They found that they needed to install 40 Wi-Fi transmitters per square mile, about twice as many as the 20 originally anticipated.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Saturday, November 03, 2007
U.S. 15th in Broadband Lines Per Person
The October 31, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle (sfgate.com) reports that according to a study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the U.S. is in 15th place in the world in broadband lines per person in 2006, down from No. 4 in 2001. Number 1 on the list is Denmark followed by the Netherlands, Iceland, South Korea and Switzerland.
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