The Kansas City Council has approved Google’s request to deploy a large-scale Wi-Fi network in Kansas City to fill in the gaps of its fiber-to-the-home service. In 2011, Google chose Kansas City for its first fiber project in the United States after a much-publicized competition among American cities. Wireless technology has been used by many […]
Brocade buys Ruckus Wireless for $1.2 billion
April 4, 2016 by
Brocade has agreed to buy Ruckus Wireless for $1.2 billion. Shareholders of Ruckus Wireless will received $6.45 in cash and 0.75 shares of Brocade for every share of Ruckus. Based on the purchase price, Ruckus Wireless is valued at $14.43 per share. Ruckus Wireless went public in November 2012 at $15 per share. It hit […]
LinkNYC is not about free Wi-Fi; it’s about advertising
February 25, 2016 by
Don’t be fooled by the pretty press releases and the marketing babble: “Good-Bye Pay Phone, Hello Link! LinkNYC is a first-of-its-kind communications network that will replace over 7,500 pay phones across the five boroughs with new structures called Links. Each Link will provide superfast, free public Wi-Fi, phone calls, device charging and a tablet for […]
Is it better to spend taxpayer money on stadiums or fiber broadband?
February 3, 2016 by
St. Louis is stuck with $144 million in debt and maintenance costs, after the Rams departed for Los Angeles (oddly enough it was once the LA Rams until they pulled a switcheroo and did it again to the detriment of the poor taxpayer). I remember not too long ago the chorus of anti-municipal broadband types […]
City-owned fiber plus private sector service providers: a better public broadband model for cities?
February 3, 2016 by
Two U.S. cities, Santa Cruz (California) and Westminster (Maryland) have chosen a different model for public broadband deployment: one that separates the ownership of the underlying fiber infrastructure from the service layer and that does not place all of the risk and costs on the private service provider. This is not the model that most […]
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