Free Internet
In a featured artice by Ashley Bach in yesterday’s Seattle Times:
We live in an exciting time. Now I don’t have to park in Barnes and Noble parking lot to pick up a signal in Bellevue! I’m so for blanketing the world with free wireless, like radio signals, then I can get rid of my sprint wireless card that I’m paying $60/month for. Yeah, City of Bellevue
Posted: November 11th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
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from Eileen
Time November 12, 2006 at 3:57 pm
Dustin, do you see this happening everywhere? How will ubiquitous wireless change the wireless business?
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from Jim Duncan
Time November 12, 2006 at 4:34 pm
My money is on municipal wireless clouds covering neighborhoods and cities within the next 3-5 years. WiMax may change everything …
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from Eileen
Time November 12, 2006 at 5:05 pm
Will municipals flloat bonds for these installs? Got any ideas you want to share about how wimax will change things?
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from Dustin
Time November 13, 2006 at 2:04 pm
I’m with Jim that many cities will use wifi (and WiMax in particular) to demonstrate that they have a competitive advantage. I could easily see it being installed in the major west coast cities (at least the relatively dense areas) in the next couple of years.
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from Eileen
Time November 13, 2006 at 2:10 pm
I hope that Starbucks rethinks it’s policy of charging for internet service. Dustin, do you think it will pose a security risk or do we already have adequate protection?
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from Dustin
Time November 14, 2006 at 7:45 pm
Eileen,
I’m not sure what security risk you’re worried about… The internet could easily be labeled “one big security risk” so any effort to extend the reach of the internet definitely poses some risks. But, the reality is that the internet is here to stay, so people with sensitive data will need to continually improve their education on how they protect their computers and servers!
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from Jim Duncan
Time November 16, 2006 at 1:06 pm
Here is a story via digg that talks about Microsoft’s entry into the municipal wireless realm -
http://www.computers.net/2006/11/microsoft_relea.html
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/54270.html
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from Eileen
Time November 16, 2006 at 2:28 pm
Thanks Jim, Great article.
Dustin, what I’m worried about it that I’ve always been told that wireless isn’t secure that when you’re on an open system like that that others can get into your computer. Not so?
I know that at the office, Jon put us on DSL instead of wireless for security purposes.
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Time November 17, 2006 at 12:53 pm
[...] And Now, Seattle is in the Game November 17, 2006 In a previous blog i wrote about how cool it was tht Bellevue was getting blanketed by wireless and one of the commenting posts reported that Microsoft was blanketing Portland, as well. [...]
1. Comment from Dustin
Time November 12, 2006 at 8:14 am
One step closer to ubiquitous wireless. Very cool!