Residents in some San Francisco HUD-assisted housing complexes will get cheap broadband
from a company named — believe it or not — Monkeybrains.
Wifi
Free national WiFi: If the Philippines can do it, why can’t the United States?
How, we wondered, can a relatively poor country like the Philippines afford to offer a free national internet access system when rich country like America can’t? It just isn’t right.
Read the full article →Build it and they will come: New York City closing free wi-fi kiosks because they attract pervs
NYC Wi-Fi kiosks that were designed to replace phone booths and allow users to consult maps, maybe check the weather or charge their phones has backfired.
Read the full article →To live and die in LA: Free government WiFi program dying (maybe already dead) in Los Angeles
Was MCT’s free wifi for L.A. a scam from the beginning? Was it a rip-off of government money? Or was it just poorly organized and poorly managed?
Read the full article →A problem with Internet Essentials: No wireless routers
You’ve done a great job with Internet Essentials, Comcast, but it’s time to start offering your wireless capability as part of the basic Internet Essentials package.
Read the full article →Libraries no longer just for books: Google and NYC libraries let patrons borrow portable wireless internet hubs
The program will offer about 10,000 Wi-Fi units through branches of the New York Public Library, the Queens Library and the Brooklyn Public Library, funded partly with a $1 million donation from Google Inc.
Read the full article →Trouble in the Big Apple: Will New York City’s free wifi kiosks over-promise and under-deliver?
Uh-oh. Just when it looked like New York City was going to build the nation’s fastest, most extensive free municipal wifi network, reality is starting to rear its ugly head.
Read the full article →Out in New York City: All phone booths. In in New York City: 10,000 high tech wifi street kiosks.
The New York City pay phone is to be replaced with ‘LinkNYC,’ a network of devices that will provide free wireless Internet throughout much of the five boroughs. But is it really a good idea?
Read the full article →Google does it again: Helps San Francisco offer free public wifi network
Thanks to a grant from high tech giant Google, residents of and visitors to San Francisco can now jump on a new municipal wifi network that offers free access in more than 30 public parks, plazas and recreation areas.
Read the full article →Controversy erupts: FCC approves $5 billion for school and library wifi
After a figurative slugfest, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a $5 billion five year plan to build wifi networks in America’s schools and libraries.
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