Philly Startup offering prize for super network idea

An article posted on Philadelphia Business Journal – March 19, 2010 Written by: Peter Key At a Philly Startup Leaders group meeting wednesday night, its board decided to fund a prize with its money, which amounts to $5,000, and all other money anyone else wants to contribute to find the next BIG IDEA for a [...]

Phila. Bids for Contract with Google for Internet Service

A radio by KYW’s Mike Dunn KWY1060 – March 21, 2010 Google is considering constructing an ‘ultra high speed” internet network and Philadelphia is among the cities vying to get it. Philadelphia’s Chief Information Officer Allan Frank spoke with KYW’s Mike Dunt. LISTEN TO

Philly Wireless – Third Times the Charm

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 [...]

Philadelphia Plans to Buy Its Wi-Fi Network

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

Philadelphia Acquires Wi-Fi Network for Public Safety

An article posted on RadioResource Media Group – December, 22, 2009 The network was initially installed by EarthLink but was never fully deployed. READ MORE

Philadelphia hasn’t given up on citywide wi-fi

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

Philadelphia Buys Earthlink’s Failed Municipal Wi-Fi Network

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

The Digital Philadelphia Project

An article that appeared on Benton Foundation – August 12, 2009 Sourced from: Technically Philly Wireless Philadelphia is dead. What was left of the title — once the 2004 promise of a wirelessly-connected Philadelphia — was lost this May when the nonprofit that shared the initiative’s name rebranded itself as the Digital Impact Group to [...]

Public Wi-Fi, Once Dead, Might Come Alive

An article that appeared in TheStreet.com – July 31, 2009 Written by: Carmen Nobel For several heady months in 2005, it seemed like every major municipality and its sister had a plan to offer cheap wireless Internet access to the masses. READ MORE

The trouble with hooking up

An article that appeared in Boston Globe – August 2, 2009 Written by: Hiawatha Bray Free municipal wireless sounds like a great idea for Boston or any city that has already invested heavily in high-tech infrastructure. Too bad there’s no more money to pay for the last link of the chain. READ MORE