September 2nd, 2008 by
Filed under: Wireless
Sprint’s XOHM WiMAX network is finally due out this month in the launch market of Baltimore, with Chicago and DC to follow, and the company is already working on the next phase of the rollout, which will bring the high-speed wireless service to Boston, Philadelphia, and Dallas-Fort Worth. Sprint says it’s already started installing WiMAX equipment in those three cities and that it’s a “month ahead of schedule,” but given the delays getting XOHM up and running in Baltimore, we’re not exactly certain the “schedule” really matters. Still, it’s good to hear that XOHM is growing up — now launch, already.
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June 17th, 2008 by
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Well, it looks like Philadelphia’s on-again, off-again WiFi network won’t be going dark for good quite just yet, as The Philadelphia Inquirer is now reporting that a group of local investors are stepping in to keep it aloft. While complete details are a bit light at the moment, the new company is apparently at least considering going with an advertising-supported business model that’d provide free access wherever the network is available, as opposed to the $20 a month Earthlink was charging for the service. To bolster that potentially losing proposition a bit, the company will also apparently be going after institutional subscribers like hospitals and universities, who’d be offered the opportunity to extend their own secure wireless networks into the city.
[Thanks Brad L, image courtesy of Stippling]
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May 13th, 2008 by
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We knew it was coming, but Philadelphia’s citywide WiFi is now officially being turned off, and Earthlink is planning on pulling down all of its access points. Like basically every other municipal WiFi project, it seems like the cost of keeping the system going outweighed the benefits, and Earthlink couldn’t find a buyer willing to take things over. Current Earthlink customers will get 30 more days of service, until June 12, and then it’s lights bytes out. Here’s hoping Philly coffee shops are ready for an influx of urban warriors.
[Via Philebrity, thanks Andy R.]
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May 10th, 2008 by
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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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