Filed under: Networking

It’d be absolutely spectacular to actually see one of these admittedly ambitious municipal WiFi projects actually work out every now and then, but instead, we’re seeing the nails start to sink into yet another citywide WiFi coffin. This go ’round, the network blanketing most of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is on the verge of sending out its last signals unless the city can devise a plan in short order to take it over from EarthLink, who unsurprisingly wants out on the double. Unfortunately, we don’t have a great feeling about the system’s future — history has a way of forecasting, you know?

[Via CNET, image courtesy of Stippling]

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Filed under: Wireless

We know, you’re already rolling your eyes, but this time it’s really for real. At least that’s what Covad Communications wants us to believe. Reportedly, said outfit is jump-starting a gigantic municipal WiFi project to blanket Silicon Valley that fell apart after upstart Azulstar failed to garner funding to kick things off in 2007. Covad is hoping to cover one square mile of downtown San Carlos, California for three months, and during the test period it will gauge just how lucrative such an initiative is. If successful, it may expand into surrounding locales, but at the moment, such an endeavor is “too much to dive into.” Best of luck, Covad — history says you’ll need it.

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Filed under: Wireless

Just months after hearing that San Franciscans would be forced to deal with the collapse of a seemingly inevitable citywide WiFi access plan, wireless addicts in St. Louis will be mourning similarly. Apparently, grandiose plans laid out by AT&T this past February have now been throttled back quite a bit, as the outfit has announced that it will not be covering the city’s 62-square miles with wireless internet. Instead, the firm will be “building a WiFi pilot project in the downtown core and expects to have it in service early next year.” It seems that the main issues with completing the initial goal were the inability to find a “cheap way to power the network’s transmitters,” and you know, figuring out how to spin this into a profitable enterprise.

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