Posted on January 6, 2010 by phillyrocketman
An article posted on
Muniwireless – December 21 2009
Written By: Craig Settles
Last week Philadelphia announced it hopes to buy the wireless network from a group of local investors who bought it from EarthLink about a year ago. This on the same day the Feds announced the first batch of stimulus grant winners. READ MORE
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Posted on January 6, 2010 by phillyrocketman
An article posted in
PC WORLD – December, 18, 2009
written by: Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service
The city of Philadelphia plans to buy a controversial Wi-Fi network that was built by EarthLink in 2006 but sold only two years later as the struggling ISP pulled out of the municipal wireless business. READ MORE
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Posted on January 6, 2010 by phillyrocketman
Posted on January 6, 2010 by phillyrocketman
Radio interview – WHYY News – December 17, 2009
By: Tom MacDonald
The city of Philadelphia is purchasing the wireless internet system installed by Earthlink as part of a new wireless Philadelphia project. READ MORE
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Posted on January 6, 2010 by phillyrocketman
An article posted on
Digital Trends – December 18, 2009
Written by Geoff Duncan
Philadelphia has struck a deal to buy the Wi-Fi network Earthlink built for the city for $2…and puts itself on the hook for up to $17 million in the next few years. READ MORE
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Posted on October 20, 2009 by phillyrocketman
An article posted on
Philadelphia Neighborhoods – October, 9, 2009
written by: Kevin Cook and Marilyn S. D’Angelo
Brewerytown Community Development Corp. computer lab
giving residents in urban neighborhoods access the Internet as well as many other services. READ MORE
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Posted on October 14, 2009 by phillyrocketman
Radio interview – WHYY News – October 14, 2009
By: Elizabeth Fiedler
Philadelphia is asking the federal government for more than $21 million dollars in stimulus money to build a hybrid network of fiber lines and wireless devices. HEAR MORE
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Posted on October 13, 2009 by phillyrocketman
An article that was posted in the
Chicago Tribune – October 11, 2009
Written by: Joelle Tessler, AP Technology Writer
The federal government will soon start handing out the first $4 billion from a pot of stimulus funds intended to spread high-speed Internet connections to more rural communities, poor neighborhoods and other pockets of the country clamoring for better access. The challenge is that the government has received $28 billion in requests. READ MORE
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Posted on September 24, 2009 by phillyrocketman
An article that appeared on
Technically Philly – September 22, 2009
Written by: Brian James Kirk
The City of Philadelphia hopes that federal agencies awarding federal broadband stimulus grants will fund $35 million to its Digital Philadelphia Broadband Initiative, according to documents published by the National Telecommunications Information Administration. READ MORE
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Posted on September 24, 2009 by phillyrocketman
An article that appeared on
Technically Philly – September 23, 2009
Written by: Brian James Kirk
Five known members of Philly’s technology community discussed the impact of Wireless Philadelphia, the city’s digital divide and its application for federal broadband stimulus dollars Tuesday evening. READ MORE.
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