Comments on: Muni Wi-Fi Takes Another Blow http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/11/19/muni-wi-fi-takes-another-blow/ Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:56:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Carlo Longino http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/11/19/muni-wi-fi-takes-another-blow/comment-page-1/#comment-117228 Carlo Longino Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:15:32 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/11/19/muni-wi-fi-takes-another-blow/#comment-117228 Thanks for the comment, Dean -- I think you're making a good point. I completely agree that the dull uses of muni wireless are generally the most valuable ones for local governments, with public/free/low-cost internet access coming way down the list. Thanks for the comment, Dean — I think you’re making a good point. I completely agree that the dull uses of muni wireless are generally the most valuable ones for local governments, with public/free/low-cost internet access coming way down the list.

]]> By: Dean Bubley http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/11/19/muni-wi-fi-takes-another-blow/comment-page-1/#comment-117219 Dean Bubley Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:13:44 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/11/19/muni-wi-fi-takes-another-blow/#comment-117219 Carlo In theory WiMAX should help... but it suffers from one of the same problems that WiFi does. In its first incarnations, it operates at 2.5GHz, which has lousy indoor penetration unless there's a really dense network of transmitter sites. So Metro Wireless is only really useful for outdoor-only applications - typically worthy-but-dull municipal stuff like parking meters, pollution monitors, CCTV and so on. Plus maybe a few people in parks with laptops in places where the weather's good & there's not much crime... I still think the muni-wireless emperor has no clothes, even if WiMAX is his new tailor. Dean Bubley Carlo

In theory WiMAX should help… but it suffers from one of the same problems that WiFi does. In its first incarnations, it operates at 2.5GHz, which has lousy indoor penetration unless there’s a really dense network of transmitter sites.

So Metro Wireless is only really useful for outdoor-only applications – typically worthy-but-dull municipal stuff like parking meters, pollution monitors, CCTV and so on. Plus maybe a few people in parks with laptops in places where the weather’s good & there’s not much crime…

I still think the muni-wireless emperor has no clothes, even if WiMAX is his new tailor.

Dean Bubley

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