Shreveport to appoint city's wireless task force
 

Shreveport City Council appointed the first two members of the city's wireless task force this past Tuesday.

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Shreveport Times -- Oct 28 2007 10:14 AM
Shreveport officials to weigh wireless Internet access options for city

So I guess the recent rumors regarding "the death of muni wifi" around the country are overstated. :)

http://www.google.com/search?q=death+of+muni+wifi

I'm actually still a proponent of muni-wifi, especially when the business plan is developed by a true service provider rather than financial planners who may lack "real world" muni-wireless experience. And not many have real world muni-wireless experience. (if any - The result is all the bad press out there on this subject)

The fact that Shreveport is considering it makes me believe it is, indeed, done for.

LOL, yeah that thought did cross my mind. But in actuality, shreveport is too large of a city anyway. The largest in the nation is Tempe AZ and Tempe is a lot smaller than shreveport. Costs can approach $50 to 100k per square mile... Lighting up downtown is a different matter though. It's not that large a space.

Here's yet another black eye for muni-wifi... I hope Shreveport doesn't fall into the same trap.



Sacramento Wi-Fi plan still stalled
Monday, October 22, 2007
(10-22) 08:39 PDT SACRAMENTO, (AP) --

The latest plan to blanket Sacramento with free wireless Internet coverage has hit a financial snag.

The city council in June approved a deal to have Sacramento Metro Connect LLC build the advertiser-backed citywide network.

But Metro Connect hasn't secured enough financing for the $7 million to $9 million plan, and no work has started on the project. It was supposed to be completed by October 2009.

A previous deal with Internet provider MobilePro Inc. fell apart because the city refused to become a so-called anchor tenant, or financial backer.

Other high-profile projects in places such as San Francisco and Chicago have also been scrapped recently.

http://tinyurl.com/2sqz5a