July 29, 2008
Here comes municipal WiMax!
It’s clear municipalilites can benefit from wireless broadband. Chosing the right model and executing it as a business tool rather than a political one seems to be the difference between success and failure. There’s no reason to believe that this would not apply to Wimax as well as WiFi.
The city of Milledgeville, Georgia has contracted Clearwire to deploy a municipal WiMAX network to provide city-wide wireless internet access. The service will be subscription-based, with a number of different service tiers available. Funding for the project is coming from a USD862,000 grant awarded to the city by the Georgia Technology Authority in 2006. (Telegeography)
We’ll be watching this one attentively. Will the AT&T legal squad try to stop it?
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Comments on Here comes municipal WiMax! »
Sounds like this one has a chance. City functions as titleholder, treating it like another municipal function like utilities or roadways. They contract out the installation to private enterprise. Will probably work quite well.
But then ain’t that what we have been saying all along?