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The iPhone Hearings – Free the iPhone

By On July 31, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Free the iPhone

Sign the petition!

The iPhone has set the stage for the future of mobile Internet — but bad policies allow companies like AT&T and Verizon to shackle great gadgets to their closed networks.

To free wireless Internet, the FCC and Congress must use the 700MHz spectrum auction [...]

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Where is the WiFi?

By On July 28, 2007 · Leave a Comment

At a recent council meeting the Chapel Hill IT Director presented information about a WiFi pilot project. One council member asked How will citizens know where it is? How will we know when its up? The Mayor asked the IT Director to work with the Town Information Officer. A good first step. I subscribe to [...]

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KQED Video Explains WiFi basics

By On July 26, 2007 · Leave a Comment

This well done video explains the basics of a WiFi mesh network. They interview Brian Moura who is co-chairman of Wireless Silicon Valley and Assistant City Manager, City of San Carlos. Thanks to MuniWireless for blogging about it.

Hey all you elected officials. Check this out!

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Three Meraki Minis

By On June 29, 2007 · 2 Comments

[flv:http://www.yesh.com/video/MerakiMinis2.flv 320 240] Three Meraki Minis just arrived. I’m going to place them around and see how well they work. Supposedly they’re easy to install and set up. This could be key for rapid network deployment. Man.. they are really small! More video about this project later.

Note: I shot this video using [...]

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Chapel Hill WiFi Pilot needs different Hotspots

By On June 27, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Tonight Tomorrow night the Chapel Hill Town Council will hear a staff proposal for a WiFi pilot project. This project has been a long time coming. One of the first reasons it was proposed in 2005 was to increase equal access to the Internet for all citizens. Former Council Member Edith Wiggins made it clear [...]

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More Indy coverage of HB1587

By On June 15, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Fiona Morgan writes another great article about HB1587. She covers the important parts of the last vote in the NC House Public Utilities Committee meeting well. I know because I was there.

Here is one part I didn’t know about. From Anti muni-broadband bill moves forward

There are still many questions about [...]

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NC HB1587 is still bad

By On May 31, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Yesterday the NC House Utility Committee [excel file of emails] meet and discussed HB 1587, “The Local Government Fair Competition Act”. Turns out lots of people showed up and spoke in favor and against the bill. So the committee vote was delayed until Wednesday June 6 at 10am. Here is a synopsis of the [...]

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Wilson, NC builds fiber network and fights HB1587

By On May 29, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I found this cool blog called The Fiber Optic Files – Wilson, NC today. Its written by Brian Bowman, the Public Affairs Manager for the City of Wilson. He linked to my post about the bad bill NC HB 1587. From there I learned more about the fiber network Wilson is constructing [...]

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Stop NC HB 1587: Prevent Big Telecom from killing Muni WiFi

By On May 24, 2007 · 1 Comment

As I write this NC HB 1587 is before the Utilities Committee for consideration. Big Telecommunications companies want to prevent democratically elected bodies from bringing broadband Internet access to everyone.

Please ask your NC state Rep to vote No or ask their colleague to vote No!

Here is a Microsoft Excel document [...]

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Chapel Hill Town Council Receives WiFi Report

By On April 24, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Cross posted from Orange Networking:
Last night the Chapel Hill Town Council received a report from the Chapel Hill Connectivity Working Group. (PDF) See the meetings agenda here. It contained very similar information the Town Technology board provided in a presentation last [...]

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